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The collaboration between Watson and Marchesa is part of a larger IBM effort to introduce its supercomputer into creative industries.

At the Met Gala in Manhattan tonight, one model will be wearing a “cognitive dress”: A gown, designed by fashion house Marchesa, that will shift in color based on input from IBM’s Watson supercomputer. The dress features gauzy white roses, each embedded with an LED that will display different colors depending on the general sentiment of tweets about the Met Gala. The algorithm powering the dress relies on Watson Color Theory, which links emotions to colors, and on the Watson Tone Analyzer, a service that can detect emotion in text.

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SmarterChild and other bots of yesteryear had hearts where their brains should have been. The new ones don’t.

The critically unloved 1999 film Bicentennial Man seems like an odd turning point in the evolution of chatbots, but for Robert Hoffer, Robin Williams’s performance as an intelligent robot was an inspiration.

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The Cricket Shelter is designed to grow delicious crickets that are both free-range and local—just like we expect for the rest of our food.

Walking up to the Cricket Shelter—a new tent-like structure sitting on a dock at the Brooklyn Navy Yard—it might not immediately be obvious that it’s full of bugs. But inside pods lining the walls, the prototype is raising 22,000 crickets. Why? To eat, of course.

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The smart sensor Helium has captured the interest of Silicon Valley—and the insurance industry.

For years now, we’ve been hearing about how the Internet of Things will connect every object in our homes. And for years, the vast majority of those objects stay dumb.

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By mid-career, the hard skills that got you the job won’t be the ones that get you promoted.

At the start of your career, chances are good that you’ll be hired primarily for your “hard skills”—the stuff you know that’s relevant for the job. When you’re fresh out of college or even a few years into your career, things like what software you’ve mastered, the knowledge you’ve picked up during internships and in school, and your other technical credentials really matter.

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Paysa data paints a picture of which top companies have the most human capital, and which companies are experiencing brain drain.

We are in the thick of earnings season and that means heavy scrutiny of companies’ financial performance. Apple has investors in a flap as it must recover from a 13% decrease in revenue from lackluster iPhone sales, while Alphabet’s big bets may finally be paying off. Yahoo’s financial performance has also been exhaustively combed, especially now in light of a potential sale.

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InfoScout’s apps sell their users’ shopping data to marketers—and give those users a cut.

While plenty of advertising companies aggregate data about consumers behind their backs, one startup allows users to openly trade their purchase histories for rewards.

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