A Google Brain and Imperial College London team have built a system — Pre-training with Extracted Gap-sentences for Abstractive SUmmarization Sequence-to-sequence, or Pegasus — that leverages Google’s Transformers architecture combined with pretraining objectives tailored for abstractive text generation. From a report: They say it achieves state-of-the-art results in 12 summarization tasks spanning news, science, stories,…

Hovercraft come in all shapes and sizes. and while they’ve largely disappeared as a major commercial transit option, they remain popular in the hearts and minds of makers everywhere. [RCLifeOn’s] latest project concerns a compact, indoor-sized hovercraft piloted via FPV, and it looks to be brilliant fun. The build consists of a 3D printed chassis,…

Games have long served as a training ground for AI algorithms, and not without good reason. From a report: Games — particularly video games — provide challenging environments against which to benchmark autonomous systems. In 2013, a team of researchers introduced the Arcade Learning Environment, a collection of over 55 Atari 2600 games designed to…

A proposed rule would require most drones to be trackable in real time by the Federal Aviation Administration, police and government security agencies. …read more Source:: CNet

Kyle Wiggers, writing for VentureBeat: Optical character recognition (OCR), or the conversion of images of handwritten or printed text into machine-readable text, is a science that dates back to the early ’70s. But algorithms have long struggled to make out characters that aren’t parallel with horizontal planes, which is why researchers at Amazon developed what…

Director Sam Mendes, cinematographer Roger Deakins, actors Dean-Charles Chapman and George MacKay and screenwriter Krysty Wilson-Cairns talk about re-creating the harrowing trenches of war. …read more Source:: CNet

In a rare bipartisan achievement, Congress has moved to combat the scourge of robocalls inundating Americans. Just don’t expect the phone to stop ringing any time soon. From a report: Lawmakers, industry and consumer groups say the bill represents significant steps forward, but they also concede that the calls are likely to continue — a…

If you’re working on a home automation project, you’re probably knee-deep into MQTT by now. If not, you should be. The lightweight messaging protocol is an ideal choice for getting your “Things” on the Internet, and controlling them all can be done easily through a simple web interface or an application on your mobile device….

The flaw resides in the Citrix Application Delivery Controller and Gateway. …read more Source:: Threatpost

The day after Christmas brought an annular eclipse to part of the eastern hemisphere, and you better believe the cameras came out to catch it. …read more Source:: CNet