Politics
Welcome to Washington’s new normal: One Trump drama after another washingtonpost
Trump summoned two dozen television executives and news anchors to his offices Monday to berate them as dishonest and disobedient. He sought to strong-arm the British government to appoint his Brexit ally, Nigel Farage ukip.org, as ambassador to the United States. He dropped his threat to prosecute Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton, disregarding his “lock her up” campaign chant and incurring the wrath of some reliable supporters.
Then there was Tuesday’s meeting with the New York Times, the newspaper Trump loves to mock as “failing.” It was scheduled, then canceled, then rescheduled. And once the president-elect settled in at the Grey Lady’s wikipedia.org boardroom, he softened his position on climate change, floated the idea that his son-in-law could broker peace in the Middle East, voiced new doubts about the effectiveness of torturing terrorism suspects, savaged Republicans who wavered on his candidacy and left unresolved concerns about how — or even whether — he would disassociate himself from his global business holdings to avoid conflicts of interest.
Peace
Trump floats son-in-law as key to Israeli-Palestinian peace jpost
“I would love to be the one who made peace with Israel and the Palestinians,” the President-elect said, according to one Times reporter present at the meeting. “That would be such a great achievement.”
Also see Trump Tells NYT He “Would Love” To Resolve Israel-Palestinian Conflict jpupdates
Censorship
Breitbart News banned by major ad company for hate speech independent.co.uk
"We did a human audit of Breitbart and determined there were enough articles and headlines that cross that line, using either coded or overt language," AppNexus spokesman Joshua Zeitz told Bloomberg.
AppNexus analysed Breitbart's website after US President-elect Donald Trump appointed the media company's boss Steve Bannon as his chief strategist.
Also see Breitbart News Was Just Banned by This Huge Digital Ad Network fortune
Twitter suspends account of its own chief executive Jack Dorsey telegraph.co.uk
Suspensions are a drastic move taken by Twitter when accounts are repeatedly found to be breaking rules about spam or abusive behaviour, or if they appear to have been hacked. Last week, it suspended a number of prominent accounts associated with the “alt-Right” movement, and earlier this year banned the provocative Donald Trump-supporting British journalist Milo Yiannopoulos.
How and Why Facebook Might Accept Censorship to Get Back Into China fortune
Many analysts and insiders thought Facebook would never come back to China after its service was blocked there in 2009. Facebook’s mission of making “the world more open and connected” was at odds with China’s mission to wall off its Internet and censor content its government finds objectionable.
Now it seems many analysts underestimated Facebook’s willingness to make concessions to Chinese authorities over the terms that have kept it out.
Also see Facebook Builds Censorship Tool But Is No Closer to Entering China bloomberg
Crime
Watch Wildlife Rangers Nab Poachers With Thermal Imaging wired
Wildlife poachers who stalk endangered animals in East and South Africa have long operated under the cover of night. But lately not even a moonless sky is safe cover for stalking impalas, elephants, and rhinos. Now, the power of increasingly inexpensive infrared cameras, artificial intelligence, and drones are being used to stop illegal poaching. Rangers are rounding up veteran poachers in the middle of the night, says Colby Loucks, World Wildlife Fund’s worldwildlife.org senior director of wildlife crime technology, who ask, dumbfounded, “How are you finding me?'”
Google's AI just created its own universal 'language' wired.co.uk
In September, the search giant turned on its Google Neural Machine Translation (GNMT) system to help it automatically improve how it translates languages. The machine learning system analyses and makes sense of languages by looking at entire sentences – rather than individual phrases or words.
Following several months of testing, the researchers behind the AI have seen it be able to blindly translate languages even if it's never studied one of the languages involved in the translation. "An example of this would be translations between Korean and Japanese where Korean⇄Japanese examples were not shown to the system," the Mike Schuster, from Google Brain wrote in a blogpost.
However, the most remarkable feat of the research paper isn't that an AI can learn to translate languages without being shown examples of them first; it was the fact it used this skill to create its own 'language'. "Visual interpretation of the results shows that these models learn a form of interlingua representation for the multilingual model between all involved language pairs," the researchers wrote in the paper.
Also see Google’s AI can translate languages it’s never learned, lip-read better than people 9to5google
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