AI recommends 'fashionable' outfits to millions of people in China
11 May 2019
E-commerce giant Alibaba has built an algorithm for suggesting outfits to shoppers in China. It has made over 5 million recommendations so far
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The universe is 2.5 billion times less magnetic than a fridge magnet
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Astronomers have calculated the magnetism of the entire universe by studying the space between galaxies, and it turns out to be very weak indeed
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