Watch David Hasselhoff in an AI-scripted short film

[embedded content]To make Benjamin, Sharp and Goodwin took a neural network, fed it a bunch of science fiction films and dribbled in plot hooks from a writing contest. Then they had it create a script for their sci-fi tale Sunspring, which was released last year. The...

Air Force enlists hackers to hunt bugs in its site

The USAF will open a select number of its public-facing pages for the program. Should a hacker find vulnerabilities within any of them, they’ll be able to trade that information for cash. And while it isn’t the first branch of the military to host a bug...

FCC Chairman outlines his plan to gut net neutrality

In a roving speech at Washington DC’s Newseum, hosted by the conservative think tank Freedom Works, Pai argued that under president Obama and former FCC chairman Tom Wheeler the agency departed with a decades old “light touch regulatory framework…...