We've seen software that can write automated stories before, and now Automated Insights is bringing the technology to fantasy football in a big way. Through a number of new partnerships — one of which AllThingsD reports is with Yahoo — the company will be producing over 50 million "fully...
"In four hours we will produce more sports articles than ESPN, CBS and FOX produce in an entire year." Robbie Allen, Automated Insights
There was a moment during Michelle Obama's speech at the Democratic National Convention last Tuesday night when I thought someone had heckled the First Lady right to her face on international television.
She was talking about who the president...
While ISPs and copyright owners in the US kick off efforts to deal with pirates using a "graduated response," France has been using a similar system for more than a year — and according to data released by the French government, people receiving copyright notices have reflected a "shared tendency" to stop illegal downloading. The law in France, known as HADOPI, is a "three strikes" program...
The Earth that Neil Armstrong left forever last month was a different planet than the one he re-entered in 1969. They won’t be making any more like him: a Navy test pilot with middling grades in his aeronautical engineering classes, husband of a home economics major, a man with so little media training that he bungled the first words spoken from the surface of the moon. The philosophy of his work was primal: “we’re required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream,” he once deadpanned at a press conference. I don’t even think they let people have last names like “Armstrong” anymore — a little too nail on the head.
Think Polos and khakis, not spacesuits
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