raphael diluzio

I'm an artist, dreamer, imagineer, professor of new media/art, designer, traveler, deep & not so deep thinker, idea guy @vingit a neu social-media-scape

[raphael diluzio @raphael_diluzio]

These psychedelic stickers blow AI minds -  Machine learning systems are very capable, but they aren’t exactly smart. They lack common sense. Taking advantage of that fact, researchers have created a wonderful attack on image recognition systems that ... https://t.co/7xZ4fFhxwF

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Samsung’s C-Lab projects include smart glasses and a portable directional speaker -  Samsung’s Creative Lab is one of the more entertaining additions to CES in the last several years. Deemed C-Lab for short, the department is a sort of in-house accele... https://t.co/Aw3S56DJyQ

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The FCC is still tweaking its net neutrality repeal (but that’s normal) -  You may think, from the pomp accompanying the FCC’s vote in December to repeal net neutrality, that the deed was accomplished. Not so — in fact, the order hasn’t even reached i... https://t.co/EeZ9PvAw8l

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Airbnb beats big property landlord’s lawsuit in California -  A California judge has dismissed Apartment Investment & Management Company’s lawsuit against Airbnb. Last February, Aimco, which owns or manages about 50,000 properties, sued Airbnb, saying... https://t.co/O6RYET3loc

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Some apps were listening to you through the smartphone’s mic to track your TV viewing, says report -  There may be a reason why that ol’ “Facebook is listening to you talk” conspiracy theory refuses to die – and not just because Facebook’s ad technolo... https://t.co/rmtHZy94N4

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Wed. Jan. 3 – Rendezvous with Sramana Mitra in Menlo Park, CA - Sramana Mitra - For entrepreneurs interested to meet and chat with Sramana Mitra in person, please join us for our weekly informal group meetups. If you are living in the San Francisco Ba... https://t.co/LiO4OdrixR

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Facebook, not Twitter, will live stream this year’s Golden Globes’ red carpet pre-show -  Facebook has scored the exclusive rights to live stream this year’s Golden Globes’ red carpet pre-show – a deal that last year went to Twitter. On Tuesday, the H... https://t.co/GFA4DneZQ7

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Amir Banifatemi of K5 Ventures (Part 1) - Sramana Mitra - Responding to a popular request, we are now sharing transcripts of our investor podcast interviews in this new series. The following interview wi... https://t.co/tkY6RF1rCn

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Amazon shipped over 5 billion items with Prime in 2017 -  Amazon still won’t officially reveal how many consumers worldwide participate in its Amazon Prime membership program, but it did today offer a few new stats related to that program’s adoption a... https://t.co/JfRGRkMbla

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Thursday, January 4 – 380th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs - Sramana Mitra - Entrepreneurs are invited to the 380th FREE online 1Mby1M mentoring roundtable on Thursday, January 4, 2018, at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/9:30 p.m. India IST. If ... https://t.co/n5WgHS19dm

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UK eyeing ‘extremism’ tax on social media giants -  The UK government has kicked off the new year with another warning shot across the bows of social media giants. Read More https://t.co/1ssFY5awFv

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Billion Dollar Unicorns: CarGurus Bootstraps its Way to an IPO - Sramana Mitra - It is hard to find a company these days that has stayed away from venture funding. Used car marketplace CarGurus is one such rarity. It recently went public on the NASDAQ... https://t.co/Q433F5X3Ta

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Genesis to Acquisition: Mike Morris, CEO of Topcoder (Part 1) - Sramana Mitra - Mike founded Topcoder, then left and joined Appirio. Appirio acquired Topcoder. Wipro then acquired both Appirio and Topcoder. Very interesting storyline. Sramana Mitra: L... https://t.co/YL0DTsdjfW

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Fast-growing Chinese media startup ByteDance enters 2018 with some uncertainty -  One of the fastest rising Chinese startups of last year had a bumpy ride into 2018 after falling foul of China’s internet censors for the first. ByteDance, the new media... https://t.co/4crDzUqYvz

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Lab-made meat startup SuperMeat raises $3M seed to develop ‘clean’ chicken -  SuperMeat, an Israeli biotech and food-tech startup that is developing lab-made chicken meat, has raised $3 million in seed funding, as it becomes the latest of a crop of so... https://t.co/5k59pmQow7

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YouTube star Logan Paul apologies for video of apparent suicide victim -  January is less than two days old and already we have a reminder of the bad side of YouTube after it emerged that Logan Paul, a brash 22-year-old with over 15 million subscriber... https://t.co/PKp0ze9s6Q

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Building AI systems that work is still hard -  Even with the support of AI frameworks like TensorFlow or OpenAI, artificial intelligence still requires deep knowledge and understanding compared to a mainstream web developer. If you have built a workin... https://t.co/SfXWYECuNP

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Researchers can now make neighborhood voting predictions from Google Street View images -  In a sign that computers will be able to perform image analysis as fluently as text analysis, a group of Stanford-based researchers were able to make accurate p... https://t.co/ZLAArbLSFm

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A conversation with Dean Kamen on the myth of “Eureka!” -  “I think invention is maybe like love,” says Dean Kamen. “Everybody wants to have it. Nobody knows what it is.” Read More https://t.co/ZvmIrqpc6z

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A look back at Uber’s hellish year -  We endured plenty of the drama Uber packed in for every five-hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes of 2017 — and what a year! From protests to a major sexual harassment probe, the ousting of co-founder ... https://t.co/Q0KFssTmnY