AI teaching assistants and the NBA’s interest in VR aside, this week’s roundup has plenty of darker-themed stories, including torture-proof passwords, live-streamed suicide and death while AR gaming.
- An Irish man dies while playing augmented reality game, Ingress. (Louise Roseingrave, The Irish Times)
- Twitter and The Voice eye augmented reality as a means of boosting social engagement. (Christopher Heine, Adweek)
- A French woman live-streams her suicide via Periscope. (Max Bearak, The Washington Post)
- The NBA wants to be the first sports league to master the use of virtual reality. (Benjamin Snyder, Fortune)
- According to Samsung Gear VR, more than one million people used VR technology in April. (Arjun Kharpal, CNBC)
- Scientists figure out how to add paper to the Internet of Things. (Michelle Ma-Washington, futurity.org)
- Scientists work to build coercion-proof passwords. (MIT Technology Review)
- The future of artificial intelligence may lie on the web. (Eric Poindessault, TechCrunch)
- Will the 11.5 million files of Panama Papers be any match for crowdsourcing? (Carrie Mihalcik, c|net)
- The teaching assistant in the Artificial Intelligence course that was, itself, AI. (Jason Maderer, ScienceDaily)
- Wearable usage has doubled during the past two years. (Dean Takahashi, VentureBeat)