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Australia's stock exchange is moving to a blockchain style system for trade settlements - Business Insider Australia
Business Insider Australia
Business Insider Australia
Australia's equity market the ASX has decided to replace its CHESS system to record changes in shareholding with distributed ledger technology found in blockchain. The global equities exchange community has been watching the ASX as it develops and ...
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India gets a step closer to laser weaponry as DRDO successfully tests laser system - Economic Times
Economic Times
Economic Times
NEW DELHI: In a leap towards building laser weapons capability, India has made a breakthrough in its efforts to develop directed energy weapons, or DEWs, that can potentially end future wars before they begin. It's not exactly what we saw in Star Wars ...
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India gets a step closer to laser weaponry as DRDO successfully tests laser system - Economic Times
Economic Times
Economic Times
NEW DELHI: In a leap towards building laser weapons capability, India has made a breakthrough in its efforts to develop directed energy weapons, or DEWs, that can potentially end future wars before they begin. It's not exactly what we saw in Star Wars ...
Alphabet's Latest AI Show Pony Has More Than One Trick - WIRED
WIRED
The history of artificial intelligence is a procession of one-trick ponies. Over decades researchers have crafted a series of super-specialized programs to beat humans at tougher and tougher games. They conquered tic-tac-toe, checkers, and chess. Most ...
Google's 'superhuman' DeepMind AI claims chess crown - BBC News
BBC News
BBC News
Google says its AlphaGo Zero artificial intelligence program has triumphed at chess against world-leading specialist software within hours of teaching itself the game from scratch. The firm's DeepMind division says that it played 100 games against ...
DeepMind's AI became a superhuman chess player in a few hours, just for funThe Verge
Alphabet's Latest AI Show Pony Has More Than One TrickWIRED
[1712.01815] Mastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with a General Reinforcement Learning Algorithm - arXivarXiv
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DeepMind's AI became a superhuman chess player in a few hours, just for fun - The Verge
The Verge
The Verge
The end-game for Google's AI subsidiary DeepMind was never beating people at board games. It's always been about creating something akin to a combustion engine for intelligence — a generic thinking machine that can be applied to a broad range of ...
Google's AlphaZero Destroys Stockfish In 100-Game Match - Chess.com
Chess changed forever today. And maybe the rest of the world did, too. A little more than a year after AlphaGo sensationally won against the top Go player, the ...
Google's AlphaZero Destroys Stockfish In 100-Game Match - Chess.com
Chess changed forever today. And maybe the rest of the world did, too. A little more than a year after AlphaGo sensationally won against the top Go player, the ...
Pivot Points of Chess Supersite Corp (CHZPD) in Focus - Nelson Research
Nelson Research
One of the technical analysis indicators used to glean the overall trend of the market over differing time periods are pivot points. The pivot point itself is where the average of the high, low and closing prices from the previous day's trading ...
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Agenda - Emporia Gazette
Emporia Gazette
The Emporia Chess Society meets from 6 - 8 p.m. at Gravel City Grinders, 608 Commercial St. All ages and skill levels are welcome, including children. There is no charge. Emporia Masonic Lodge 12 meets at 7:30 p.m. at the Masonic Temple, 424 Merchant ...
Reed Magazine - Reed Magazine (press release) (blog)
Reed Magazine (press release) (blog)
Reed Magazine (press release) (blog)
Suzy Renn [biology 2006–], as well as a psycholinguistics paper by Prof. Enriqueta Canseco-Gonzales [psychology 1992–] and Prof. Michael Pitts [psychology 2001–]analyzing word recognition in Spanish-English bilinguals. His thesis students have applied ...
Hip hop, chess make great combination - WCVB Boston
WCVB Boston
WCVB Boston
High-intensity exercise can help boost memory, according to research from McMaster University in Ontario, Canada. Advertisement. Just six weeks of physical activity - "short bouts of interval training over the course of 20 minutes" - drastically ...
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The Prolific North Tech 100: Research shows that the North is in prime position to harness the tech opportunity - Prolific North
Prolific North
Prolific North
We're delighted to be supporting the Prolific North Tech 100, a new initiative launched last week showcasing the North's biggest tech companies, as well as our Top 30 'ones to watch' and the Top 20 big employers of tech talent in the North. The ...
What to See This Week at Duke - Duke Today
Duke Today
Duke Today
Despite a remarkable life, Sammie Chess Jr. is one of North Carolina's little-known civil rights pioneers. His life began in a dirt-floored tenant dwelling during the Great Depression in rural South Carolina. From there, Chess rose to become an ...
Used wine bottles get new lease of life as plates, tuna cans double as giant chess pieces at 'upcycling' market - The Straits Times
The Straits Times
A lot of research went into engineering the glass-flattening process, including heating up the glass and the chemicals that went into it, said the second-year Ngee Ann Polytechnic student. The plates, costing around $30 each, "challenge environmental ...
League of Legends skill and IQ are linked, says study - TweakTown
TweakTown
"The only surprise here really is that there are some videogames now that are as complicated as chess and people play them all the time. Unlike first-person shooter games where speed and target accuracy are a priority, MOBAs rely more on memory and the ...
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The better you are at League of Legends the higher your IQ is likely to be - PCGamesN
PCGamesN
PCGamesN
“If this was chess, no-one would be surprised by this at all,” Alex Wade, Professor of Psychology at the University of York, and the study's co-author says. The only surprise here really is that there are some videogames now that are as complicated as ...
Chess moves, Sarasota style - Business Observer
Business Observer
The company's planned $10 million headquarters in the 265-acre Collaboration Opportunities for Research and Exploration park will contain 55,000 square feet. Mercedes Medical will relocate to its new quarters, from a trio of Manatee buildings, in late ...
Satyajit Ray: The historian's craft - Livemint
Livemint
Livemint
An important part of this is research. Bengal he knew well, less so Lucknow, and the meticulous and uncompromising research treatment the late director gave his subject becomes evident in My Adventures With Satyajit Ray: The Making Of Shatranj Ke ...