Emergent Tech

Creepy or super creepy? That is the question Mozilla's throwing at IoT Christmas pressies

'Tis the season to be tracked by your connected water bottle
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15 Nov 12:03

Alexa, cough up those always-on Echo audio recordings, says double-murder trial judge

Amazon gizmo may be key witness in slaying
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14 Nov 20:21

Google swallows up DeepMind Health and abolishes 'independent board'

All your Health Data are belong to us
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14 Nov 12:16

Oi, Elon: You Musk sort out your Autopilot! Tesla loyalists tell of code crashes, near-misses

UpdatedCarmaker's unpredictable 'super cruise control' tech blamed for ton of close calls
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14 Nov 07:04

Another 3D printer? Oh, stop it, you're killing us. Perhaps literally: Fears over ultrafine dust

AnalysisBio-boffins bet beastly bad bits bash bronchi
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13 Nov 22:16

Eye eye! AI could stop blindness, Facebook's after math, and how to get started in the ML biz

RoundupThe week's other news in machine learning
10 Nov 14:18

Bloke jailed for trying to blow up UK crypto-cash biz after it failed to reset his account password

Would-be bomber thrown in the cooler for six and a half years
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09 Nov 23:33

Two fool for school: Headmaster, vice principal busted for mining crypto-coins in dorms, classrooms

We don't need no server cluster, we don't need no power controls
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09 Nov 21:41

Diss drive: Seagate and IBM bring blockchain sledgehammer to compliance nuts

Electronic fingerprints put in verifiable ledger
09 Nov 17:00

Chinese teen braniacs are being trained to build new AI weapons

Beijing Institute of Technology launches a new programme to further defense interests
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09 Nov 07:12

I've got the key, I've got the secret. I've got the key to another person's DJI drone account: Vids, info left open to theft

Luckily no one else spotted flaw before we did, say infosec bods who reported vuln
09 Nov 05:52

Persuading world+dog to love Microsoft's AI assistant a step too far for Acompli founder

Hey Cortana, where's your VP?
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07 Nov 12:20
Digital Catapult Pony

'Blockchain SAVED my Quango'

Taxpayers splash £100m+ to save doomed agency
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07 Nov 09:10

Dollar for dollar, crafting cryptocurrency sucks up 'more energy' than mining gold, copper, etc

Maybe time to put down that Bitcoin-mining rig and pick up that spade?
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07 Nov 07:04
machine arm attempts to crush questionmark

Mything the point: The AI renaissance is simply expensive hardware and PR thrown at an old idea

CommentThere is no ghost in the machine
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06 Nov 10:12

Opinion

Can you trust an AI data trust not to slurp your data?

CommentData ownership is so yesterday. Give us all you've got... ethically
machine arm attempts to crush questionmark

Mything the point: The AI renaissance is simply expensive hardware and PR thrown at an old idea

CommentThere is no ghost in the machine
75 Comments
06 Nov 10:12
AI boss and human slaves

UK.gov should spend more on AI, bleat VCs and consultants. Oh? Why's that then?

CommentThat's right, AI report was written by people with skin in the game
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24 Oct 14:35
Faux pop art illustration: sweating man thinking "Oh no, no"

How an augmented reality tourist guide tried to break my balls

Something for the Weekend, Sir?... and displayed the results for everyone to see
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14 Sep 08:04

News

Fight AI with AI! Code taught to finger naughty deepfake vids made by machine-learning algos

It works for now because the forgeries are quite easy to spot
06 Nov 07:03

Hands on with neural-network toolkit LIME: Come now, you sourpuss. You've got some explaining to do

Everyone loves a manic pixel dream swirl
05 Nov 10:02

Google flings $25m at Social Good AI contest, Baidu's whips up neural-net camera to treat eye diseases, and more

RoundupOpenAI builds curious bots and Nvidia's on the lookout for fresh ML talent
03 Nov 14:01

Now Europe wants a four-million-quid AI-powered lie detector at border checkpoints

Screening system would scan faces, flag 'suspicious' reactions for immigration cops
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02 Nov 06:04

If you want to inject AI into your apps, and you can stomach Facebook's code, then have we got some news for you

Reinforcement learning toolkit open-sourced for devs
01 Nov 19:46

'Privacy is a human right': Big cheese Sat-Nad lays out Microsoft's stall at Future Decoded

It's a triple A-rated keynote: Azure, AI and Accessibility
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01 Nov 18:03

IBM struggles to sign up shipping carriers to blockchain supply chain platform – reports

Speculation that running joint venture with shipping giant Maersk might be off-putting to rivals
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30 Oct 14:31

It's raining drones, but just one specimen: DJI's Matrice 200 quadcopter

UK's Civil Aviation Authority grounds kit after 'complete loss of power' mid-flight reported
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30 Oct 12:27

AI can predict the structure of chemical compounds thousands of times faster than quantum chemistry

Traditional math heavy calculations are just too slow
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30 Oct 06:01

Amazon's neural net offer to border cops, Waymo charges fares, the first AI portrait sold at auction, and more

RoundupIncluding: Bonus IBM Watson Health drama
29 Oct 07:01

Top AI conference NIPS won't change its name amid growing protest over 'bad taste' acronym

Special reportNot a great look for an industry tackling data bias issues
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29 Oct 06:03

It's OK, you can pick up real-time IoT analytics – it won't bite... unless you ignore this advice

CommentYour gentle first-steps to processing live information streaming from networked sensors
27 Oct 03:57
car_crash

Should a robo-car run over a kid or a grandad? Healthy or ill person? Let's get millions of folks to decide for AI...

Survey results: Bad news for the poor, overweight, old
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25 Oct 06:56
bible

Excuse me, but have you heard the teachings of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Chr-AI-st?

On the 6th day, God created humans. And on the 8th day, they created a bot to rewrite the Bible six ways from Sunday
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25 Oct 05:30
AI boss and human slaves

UK.gov should spend more on AI, bleat VCs and consultants. Oh? Why's that then?

CommentThat's right, AI report was written by people with skin in the game
30 Comments
24 Oct 14:35
no

It only took Oz govt transformation bods 6 months and $700k to report that blockchain ain't worth the effort

Snarking at vendors: Priceless
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24 Oct 13:48
language_translator

Linguists, update your resumes because Baidu thinks it has cracked fast AI translation

Let's hope this doesn't accidentally kick off a war
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24 Oct 06:30
IV_drip

AI clinician trained to save humans from sepsis – and, er, let's just say you should stick to your human doctor

One out of three correct dosages ain't bad, right? Right?
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23 Oct 05:49

Need a modest Arm Cortex-A CPU in your custom chip? Just apply online. Plus $125,000

That's how much it costs to license the blueprints (and don't forget the royalties)

A DeepMind library to help build reinforcement learning bots, and how Google's Pixel 3 cameras handle zoom

RoundupAlso applications are now open for OpenAI's Scholars programme
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20 Oct 13:02

Anonymous Amazonian demands withdrawal of face-recog kit from sale

Was your anti-surveillance letter sinkholed? Write a blog about it
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19 Oct 08:43

Finally, a use for AI and good old-fashioned simulations: Hunting down E.T. in outer space

Targeted ads, coming to a galaxy nowhere near you
19 Oct 02:30
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