"One of the phone numbers the government was investigating was not a Signal user after all. For the other phone number, Open Whisper Systems turned over the only pieces of data it could: the time the user’s account had been created and the last time it had connected to the service — far less than the government sought."

(via +Janne Uusitalo)

http://www.bostonleader.com/harambe-mcharambeface-wins-chinese-zoos-gorilla-naming-contest/

via Kaj Sotala

> This post presents WaveNet, a deep generative model of raw audio waveforms. We show that WaveNets are able to generate speech which mimics any human voice and which sounds more natural than the best existing Text-to-Speech systems, reducing the gap with human performance by over 50%.

> We also demonstrate that the same network can be used to synthesize other audio signals such as music, and present some striking samples of automatically generated piano pieces.

Text on bag reads as: "This text has no other purpose than to terrify those who are afraid of the Arabic language." http://twitter.com/zarahsultana/status/765664301961121792/photo/1

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