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An Amazon engineer made an AI-powered cat flap to stop his cat from bringing home dead animals

Machine learning can be an incredible addition to any tinkerer’s toolbox, helping to fix that little problem in life that no commercial gadget can handle. For Amazon engineer Ben Hamm, that problem was stopping his “sweet, murderous cat” Metric from bringing home dead and half-dead prey in the middle of the night and waking him up.

Full story, including a video of Ben’s presentation at Ignite Seattle, at the Verge.

Google Maps can now predict how miserable your public transit experience will be

A recent survey digs into voice search behavior, with some interesting results.