In John Breeden’s latest NextGov column, he examines the impressive win that pitted an artificial intelligence program called AlphaGo against the top player of the ancient Chineese game of Go. And AlphaGo swept the series, beating Lee Se-dol three to zero in a best of five series. Here come the thinking machines!
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NextGov Reports: Utah Voters To Pick Presidential Candidates Via Internet Voting
On March 22, GOP voters in Utah will go to the polls to make their choice of presidential candidate, and for the first time in America, Internet voting is being deployed as an option in a presidential contest.
Just for fun: A Newspaper Corruption Simulation
The Westport Independent is a newspaper simulator that has players as editors trying to battle government censorship, maintain reporter morale and just sell some papers in a fictional country undergoing great change circa 1949. Comparisons will be made to Papers Please of course, but The Westport Independent stands on its own. Find out how corrupt we actually get in our Let’s Play movie.
Utah, other states, begin embracing drone hobbyists community
The FAA has been cracking down on people flying drones in Washington, but other states are embracing their drone-flying communities, training them and turning them into auxiliary volunteer air forces ready to help out their communities. Read all about it in the latest Emerging Tech column from NextGov.