We often hear that AI is important for economic growth, and while that claim makes intuitive sense, there isn’t a lot of hard data to back it up. A recent study [PDF] from economists at MIT and Washington University in St. Louis offers some proof, though, showing how AI tools boost trade by allowing sellers…

Car Thing plays music and podcasts on voice command, but is only being used to understand how people listen to music while driving. …read more Source:: CNet

It’s funny, but the real-world implications are kind of scary. …read more Source:: CNet

Plug pulled on instances as engineers scramble to protect customer info Salesforce customers have been unable to access the service since 0956 PDT (1656 UTC) on Friday, thanks to a ham-handed database deployment.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

For more than three decades, Stephen Wolfram, a 59-year-old scientist, software designer and entrepreneur, has built software that has attracted an avid following among mathematicians and scientists. His Mathematica program for symbolic mathematical computation and its programming language, Wolfram Language, are favorites of the intelligentsia of the quant world in universities and corporations. Wolfram Alpha,…

HBO’s cultural phenomenon is coming to end, but will it also be the last show we all watch together? …read more Source:: CNet

Facebook has set up Libra Networks in Europe to work on its own payments and blockchain systems, reports say. …read more Source:: CNet

[David Johnson-Davies] always wanted an illuminated button matrix for projects, but cost was never very friendly. That all changed when he discovered a cheap source of illuminated pushbuttons on Aliexpress, leading to this DIY 4×4 illuminated button matrix design which communicates over I2C. The button states can be read independently of setting the light pattern,…

A piece of ‘art’ currently up for auction features six separate types of malware running on a vulnerable computer. …read more Source:: DarkReading

An anonymous reader shares a report: Military prosecutors in the case of a US navy Seal charged with killing an Islamic State prisoner in Iraq in 2017 installed tracking software in emails sent to defense lawyers and a reporter in an apparent attempt to discover who was leaking information to the media, according to lawyers…