Episode 58 – Feb 4, 2016

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Hosts & Guests

• Derek Silva
• Stuart Clark

Google’s AlphaGo Becomes The First AI To Win Against A Professional Go Player

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUbqykXVx0A
• http://www.wired.com/2016/01/in-a-huge-breakthrough-googles-ai-beats-a-top-player-at-the-game-of-go/
• A ‘counterpoint’ https://medium.com/backchannel/has-deepmind-really-passed-go-adc85e256bec#.aii7hhv7f

High profile BitCoin engineer leaves, declares experiment dead

• http://www.extremetech.com/internet/221338-high-profile-developer-declares-bitcoin-doomed-leaves-currency-project

Finally, a robot vacuum that will learn my home’s layout

• http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/01/neato-botvac-connected-review-a-lidar-powered-robot-vacuum-is-my-maid-now/

 

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Microsoft is selling many Surface products, but not many Lumia products

• http://www.ibtimes.com/microsoft-corporation-msft-q2-2016-earnings-revenue-beats-street-strong-surface-2284867

Office Online Gets Real-Time Collaboration for Files Hosted by Microsoft Partners

• http://techcrunch.com/2016/01/27/microsoft-enables-co-authoring-in-the-cloud/

Microsoft Buys Swiftkey

• http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/02/microsoft-buys-uk-based-swiftkey-for-170-million/

Google now blocking websites that show fake download buttons

• http://arstechnica.co.uk/information-technology/2016/02/google-now-blocking-websites-that-show-fake-download-buttons/

Local Story

LaserAg debuts at Precision Agriculture Conference in London

• http://www.lfpress.com/2016/02/02/precision-agriculture-from-dot-bomb-to-hot-ticket

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What We Like

Stuart – Nothing this week
Derek – Grav