Image credit: Me.

It’s a new year, with some new articles…

• AlphaGo secretly beats human players online
• Automatically detecting petty crime in CCTV
• Good question
• Robot cars kicks my ass
• Stretchier than skin wearable tech
• Norway turns off FM radio
• Poker AI competes to beat top players in no-limit game
• Samsung blames battery flaws
• AI tells your boss if you’re slacking
• … oh and some folks in Phili asked me about it
• AI won a poker tournament against pros

I also spent a week in Finland (not working). It was awesome. Spent a lot of time trying to take pictures of the stars but an annoying light kept getting in the way.