Microsoft’s Mimicker Alarm uses machine learning games to make sure you wake up

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by Sindy Cator on January 21, 2016 at 3:59 pm

Waking up is hard sometimes. If you’re like me, you set an extra couple of redundant alarms just to make sure you’re really up in time for work (and sometimes still fail). Microsoft’s Garage team thinks it has a better idea for keeping you up though: machine learning. The Mimicker Alarm app – Android only for now – starts out as any other alarm clock, allowing you to set multiple times and wake you up in standard noisy fashion. The difference is that it makes sure you stay up, by forcing you to play one of three games to prove your alertness. It does so…