Intelligent Machines 427

Pixel 2 arrives tomorrow with a secret custom imaging chip. Google AI can teach itself Go. Snopes and Politifact get fake news ads. How to get a job as a Personality Designer at Google. Samsung's Bixby assistant comes to fridges. Which is worse, KRACK or ROCA? MS vs DOJ goes to the SCOTUS.

• Leo's Tool: Google Advanced Protection Program
• Jeff's Number: 47% of teens favor SnapChat vs 9% for Facebook
• Stacey's Thing: Alexa voice prints are not awesome.

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Links

• Google Pixel 2 will be available at Verizon stores on Thursday
• The Pixel 2's images look good thanks to custom silicon
• The Pixel 2 XL would be the best phone in the world if its screen wasn’t so weird
• Microsoft Email-Access Fight With U.S. Gets Top Court Review
• Supreme Court refuses to hear case questioning Google’s trademark
• Google serves fake-news ads...on fact-checking sites
• Google announces new education initiatives
• Google Maps ditches automatic calorie estimates after users say it’s not helpful and even potentially harmful
• Google Photos now recognizes your pets as people, like it should
• Google’s AI can create better machine-learning code than the researchers who made it
• AlphaGo Zero learns on its own
• Time for a refresh: meet the new Google Calendar for web
• New job: personality designer
• This is a smart fridge I can get behind
• Samsung's Bixby, now smarter, arrives on fridges - CNET
• Millions of high-security crypto keys crippled by newly discovered flaw
• Serious flaw in WPA2 protocol lets attackers intercept passwords and much more
• Thousands of women share experiences of sexual assault on Twitter through #MeToo
• New bill would allow hacking victims to 'hack back'
• Colorado Political Candidate Promises to Give His Seat to an App
• Essential Is Getting Sued For Allegedly Stealing Wireless Connector Technology
• Swedish train officially named Trainy McTrainface
• 47% of teens favor SnapChat vs. 9% Facebook
• Google Advanced Protection Program