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The Curse of Email

"Google admits data mining student emails in its free education apps"

Google no longer understands how its "deep learning" decision-making computer systems have made themselves so good at recognizing things in photos. This means the internet giant may need fewer experts in future as it can instead rely on its semi-autonomous, semi-smart machines to solve problems all on their own. The claims were made at the Machine Learning Conference in San Francisco on Friday by Google software engineer Quoc V. Le in a talk in which he outlined some of the ways the content-slurper is putting "deep learning" systems to work. (You find out more about machine learning, a computer science research topic, here [PDF].)

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"f you're an educator of any level, you know the importance of a great personal learning network. It's your professional lifeline in the digital age. It doesn't matter if you're a teacher, administrator, or any other form of educator. A personal learning network sustains and nurtures you in many ways."