The queen and bishop were found in a beam over the barn’s main entrance and are believed to have served as protective amulets, placed there to help keep the occupants and their livestock safe, according to archaeologist Adam Daubney of the Lincolnshire County Council.
https://www.archaeology.org/news/7298-190114-england-chess-pieces
The 16-minute feature, titled “Rami Malek: Becoming Freddie,” features interviews with the actor and other cast members about Malek and the work he put into the movie, learning how to become Mercury in terms of performance and mannerisms, as well as in appearance.
Despite what you hear about artificial intelligence, machines still can’t think like a human, but in the last few years they have become capable of learning. And suddenly, our devices have opened their eyes and ears and cars have taken the wheel. Today, artificial intelligence is not as good as you hope and not as bad as you fear, but humanity is accelerating into a future that few can predict. That’s why so many people are desperate to meet Kai-Fu Lee, the oracle of AI.
Convergences have long been a staple of progress, from multitools to kitchen implements to every other As Seen on TV striver. Surely some medieval archer fashioned a backscratcher out of a bow. But over the last year or two, the combinations have come more quickly, and grown both increasingly outlandish and outrageously useful. For that you can thank—or curse, depending on your tolerance for novelty—a confluence of factors.
https://www.wired.com/story/hybrid-gadgets-alexa-ces-2019/
Amazon said DocumentDB is a fast, scalable, highly available and fully managed document database service that runs on its cloud and is compatible with existing MongoDB applications and tools.
https://siliconangle.com/2019/01/09/amazon-launches-documentdb-database-service-rival-mongodb/
“It is a demonstration of AI’s ability to understand language well enough to construct and represent a really persuasive point of view about a complex topic.” – Talia Gershon, IBM’s director of research strategy
Using a training data set of approximately 52,000 written recipes, along with images showing the completed foods, the researchers were able to devise a system that can read a recipe and then generate a picture showing what the end result is likely to look like.
https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/tel-aviv-ai-generates-food-pictures/
It played like no computer ever has, intuitively and beautifully, with a romantic, attacking style. It played gambits and took risks.
Karjakin failed to qualify for the 2018 World Chess Championship, but said he is determined to inflict defeat on the seemingly invincible Norwegian chess legend.
“Undoubtedly, I would like to beat Carlsen,” Karjakin said, TASS reported.
“I will do everything possible to reach this goal. Last year I was close to being selected for the World Chess Championship, but failed to do that.
https://www.rt.com/sport/448462-sergey-karjakin-magnus-carlsen/