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Thailand built a robot to make sure that Thai food is appropriately delicious

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Thai food is delicious, but Thailand officials have a problem with it often not being delicious enough. According to The New York Times, Thailand actually backs a group called the Thai Delicious Committee, which is unveiling a robot this week that's supposedly capable of determining how good Thai food is. The committee's concern is that Thai restaurants across the globe often aren't authentic enough, so it built a machine that can analyze the contents of a dish and then compare it against an authentic standard. The committee has reportedly even created a logo that restaurants can use to vouch for their authenticity, so long as they're using an approved recipe.

Drop in some green curry and wait for a rating

The agency behind Thai Delicious has spent around $1 million on the committee, with about $100,000 alone going to the robot, according to the Times. The robot, called the e-delicious machine, uses 10 sensors to measure chemical signatures in the food, but it isn't stated how many dishes it's prepared to analyze. Authenticity is determined by comparing dishes to the collective tastes of local testers — in the case of one dish, the committee had 120 taste testers around a university rate how good different preparations were, ultimately using the highest rated as the standard.

One businessman who the Times spoke with is hoping to commercialize the machine. He's interested in selling them to Thai Embassies around the world, at the cost of $18,000 each, to allow them to start working with their local restaurants. The Times paints the entire premise of this program less as weird government control than an honest, if strange, attempt to make sure that there's some solid Thai food to eat all across the world. Rather than pandering to local tastes, the machine can make sure that recipes are true to what residents of Thailand actually enjoy. The Thai Delicious Committee has even made an app with authentic recipes that chefs can use. The New York Times has more on the initiative, including a video of the machine in action.

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NSA built search engine to crawl, share data

This graphic, from documents leaked to The Intercept, describes the architecture of the NSA's ICREACH search engine. The Intercept

Not only is the National Security Agency scooping up vast troves of data on the American public, it's also sharing that data with other US government agencies.

The NSA has granted access across "nearly two dozen" agencies to data on "more than 850 billion records" that covers more than 30 different kinds of metadata on phone calls, cell phone locations, faxes, emails, and Internet chats, says a new report in The Intercept. Based on classified documents provided by whistleblower and former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, the planning documents for the search engine, called ICREACH for Intelligence Community Reach, implicate the participation of the Drug Enforcement Agency and Federal Bureau of Investigation.

ICREACH was designed, according to the documents, to allow analysts to search for specific attributes, such as a phone number, and receive a list of results of calls made and received over a specific time period, such as a month. Those results could then be used to determine who the targeted person of interest communicated with regularly.

While the database that ICREACH searches covers an enormous swath of communication data, The Intercept story says that does not include information from the NSA's database that stores information on American's phone calls and collected under Section 215 of the Patriot Act. The 215 database can only be searched during terrorism investigations and only by a small group of analysts.

It's not clear from the report how much information crosses over between the databases.

However, Elizabeth Goitein, co-director of the Liberty and National Security Program at the New York University School of Law's Brennan Center for Justice, told The Intercept that ICREACH allowed the government to to circumvent restrictions on retaining data about Americans.

Office of the Director of National Intelligence spokesman Jeffrey Anchukaitis told the Intercept that sharing information was a "a pillar of the post-9/11 intelligence community."

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