An overexcited someone clicked the "Send" button a little too quickly this morning.
An overexcited someone is going to be disciplined later.
The Indian governmentfinally formalized rules allowing 100% FDI in e-commerce marketplaces - it's huge for Snapdeal but not good news for Amazon & Flipkart who act majorly as retailers.
Deep learning has been taking the world by storm over the last year. What often gets looked is what's happening in China. Baidu has set up an internal deep learning product which can be tapped into by any department.
This have manifested all the way from a facial recognition app, self-driving cars, and a pretty cool sight-to-text device for blind people.
Ps. A quick search shows that searches for "Chinese dragon" are 9x higher in the US than China! Come on guys, it's 2016.
Are you a towel thief? Hotels have now started sewing RFID chips into linen, towels, bathrobes so that you dirty criminals can't get away with petty thievery.
Cotton is expensive! A Honolulu hotel saved $15,000 in towel expenses after installing the chips!
Read: Want to Steal a Hotel Towel?
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A growing niche is the sexual activity of cute-old Japanese men like this one – that's right, this dude is a pornstar.
And he is a serious brand. As Japanese society ages, "elder porn" is a growing trend.
An extract:
Takuda is "a tactful elderly gentleman who instructs women of different ages in the erotic arts, and he boasts a body of work far more impressive than that of most porn actors in their prime"[Read More]
And speaking of porn, check out this genius corn store. If it rings any bells, you should probably think about clearing your browser history…
Separately somewhere else in the US - after some parents complained, yoga was banned in classrooms as well as saying the word "namaste".
Zenefits was a darling valued at $4.5 billion. Then it was revealed they made software allowing their brokers to cheat mandatory tests and it all tanked. 250 people were fired, employees were smoking, drinking, and having sex in stairwells.
If you had fears about the rise of AI, a bot launched by Microsoft took less than 24 hours to get out of hand, turning racist, anti-women and spinning Nazi rhetoric.