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08 Apr 14:50 |
Emergent Tech
Emergent Tech
WeWork sues SoftBank over 'AWOL' $3bn shares purchase – which included millions lined up for ousted CEO Neumann
Japanese giant defends decision, says trendy office rental biz didn't meet its terms
07 Apr 21:07 | 14
Artificial Intelligence
Time to brush up on current affairs. Because we're predicting Li-ion batt lifetimes using impedance and AI
Well, when we say we, we mean... we read a paper some others wrote
07 Apr 06:40 | 20
Internet of Things
Remember Tapplock, the 'unbreakable' smart lock that was allergic to screwdrivers? The FTC just slapped it down for 'deceiving' folks
And you can still open its improved version with a strong magnet
06 Apr 21:39 | 50
Artificial Intelligence
Washington state governor green-lights facial-recog law championed by... guess who: Yep, hometown hero Microsoft
RoundupPlus more news from the world of machine learning
06 Apr 11:24 | 9
Artificial Intelligence
Automatic for the People: Pandemic-fueled rush to robo-moderation will be disastrous – there must be oversight
AnalysisEFF raises alarm over increasing reliance on shoddy automation
03 Apr 06:03 | 20
Internet of Things
Tech tracker Tile testifies in Congress: Apple's geolocation nagging is so not fair
Alleges anticompetitive behaviour in the walled garden. There's no party like a third party, eh?
02 Apr 16:30 | 5
Emergent Tech
Well, 2019 finished with Intel as king of the chip world, Broadcom doing OK, everyone else shrinking. Good thing 2020's looking up, eh?
Oh, oh no... oh God
02 Apr 05:07 | 8
Emergent Tech
Japanese airline ANA spins out telepresence-bot startup for virus-avoiding medicos and fearful tourists
Imagine an iPad running FaceTime clamped to a post stuck into a Roomba and you'll get the idea
02 Apr 02:02 | 10
Emergent Tech
Hong Kong swells tech-buying subsidies for local businesses that buy from local businesses
$25k from you and $75k from the government buys improved productivity and economic diversity
01 Apr 05:49 | 2
Emergent Tech
Samsung calls it a day on liquid-crystal display, says quantum dot is really hot
Low demand, supply glut. Why bother?
31 Mar 22:20 | 20
Artificial Intelligence
Relax, breaking a website's fine-print doesn't make you a criminal hacker, says judge in US cyber-law legal row
If you ignore the T&Cs to probe a site's algorithms, don't expect the Feds to swoop in using the dreaded CFAA
31 Mar 17:42 | 8
Emergent Tech
Sunday: Australia is shocked UK would consider tracking mobile data to beat pandemic. Monday: Australia to deploy drone intimidation squads
UpdatedBloody poms are full of great ideas
31 Mar 16:56 | 42
Emergent Tech
Sucks to be you, ICANN. We can go our own way: Opera to support sites using renegade top-level domain .crypto
Is this the end of the DNS? No, but it is curious to see where this is going
31 Mar 07:04 | 3
Artificial Intelligence
Call for netizens to demand scraped pics from Clearview, ML weather forecasts, and Star Trek goes high def with AI
RoundupYour quick summary of neural network news
30 Mar 10:09 | 13
Emergent Tech
Delivery drones: Where are they when we really need them?
Amazon promised. Google trialled. UPS got a licence. But only 1% of retailers are interested because they're still mostly rubbish
30 Mar 07:32 | 77
Emergent Tech
Drones intone 'you must stay home,' eliciting moans from those in the zone: Flying gizmos corral Brits amid coronavirus lockdown
Big Brother refitted for Big Hover
28 Mar 08:09 | 86
Artificial Intelligence
Don't believe the hype: Today's AI unlikely to best actual doctors at diagnosing patients from medical scans
Majority of academic studies into hospital image processing aren't subjected to clinical testing
25 Mar 22:56 | 19
Emergent Tech
Amazon, Apple, Google, IBM, Microsoft speech-to-text AI systems can't understand black people as well as whites
Lack of varied training data to blame, say researchers
24 Mar 20:56 | 73
Artificial Intelligence
Self-driving truck boss: 'Supervised machine learning doesn’t live up to the hype. It isn’t C-3PO, it’s sophisticated pattern matching'
RoundupStarsky Robotics shuts down, plus more news from world of neural networks
23 Mar 13:28 | 47
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Business
First it was toilet paper. Then pasta. Now Broadcom suspects hoarders are behind its surprisingly good-looking Q2 sales
But warns things probably aren’t great long term, which HPE has just done too
Software
Microsoft attempts to up its Teams game with new features while locked-down folk flock to rival Zoom... warts and all
Changes may help, but big user requests are still missing
Networks
Ethernet standards group leaves its name in the dust as it details new 800Gbps spec
Farewell, 25 Gigabit Ethernet Consortium. Arise, Ethernet Technology Consortium
Artificial Intelligence
Time to brush up on current affairs. Because we're predicting Li-ion batt lifetimes using impedance and AI
Well, when we say we, we mean... we read a paper some others wrote
Software
Want to stay under the radar for a decade or more? This Chinese hacking crew did it... by aiming for Linux servers
BlackBerry says Winnti-derived group is playing it quiet with rootkit attacks
Bootnotes
Apple creates face shield for health workers, resists the temptation to call it the 'iMask'
20 million of them coming soon as supply chain muscles flexed
Software
Google tests hiding Chrome extension icons by default, developers definitely not amused by the change
Tightening privacy and security may cause pain for add-on makers
Security
Flaw hunter bags $75,000 off Apple after duping Safari into spying through iPhone, Mac cameras without permission
Bug that let malicious site snoop on users squashed, so make sure you're on the most recent version
Security
Please, just stop downloading apps from unofficial stores: Android users hit with 'unkillable malware'
Picked up xHelper 'matryoshka' trojan? Best to just nuke the site from orbit
Business
Capita inks deal with NHS to 'bring back staff': Workers get an hour of training to recruit and vet retired doctors, nurses
ExclusiveAsked to verify the identity of medics using video chat apps Zoom and Facetime
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Emergent Tech
Germany says nein to Euro Unified Patent Court, pulls plug and leaves it nearby if anyone wants to put it back in
Top court says UPC was not properly approved but only on a technicality
23 Mar 12:32 | 17
Artificial Intelligence
FYI: You can trick image-recog AI into, say, mixing up cats and dogs – by abusing scaling code to poison training data
You may want to check what you're actually teaching your neural networks in future
21 Mar 01:23 | 17
Emergent Tech
Tesla downs tools in California, New York amid 'non-essential' biz clampdown
Implements 'touchless deliveries' for 'leccy car-buyers
20 Mar 18:00 | 7
Artificial Intelligence
Thankfully, our AI savior is here to nail the COVID-19 pandemic: A neural network that can detect coughing
False positive rates, we've heard of them
20 Mar 06:03 | 9
Emergent Tech
Former Googler Anthony Levandowski ‘fesses up to pinching trade secrets about self-driving cars
But only for a progress update document, as Feds recommend 30-month stretch after reaching a deal on theft of IP that made its way to Uber
20 Mar 01:46 | 20
Emergent Tech
The show Musk go on: Tesla defies SIlicon Valley coronavirus lockdown order, keeps Fremont factory open
UpdatedElsewhere, Geek Squad still sending out techies to elderly people's homes
18 Mar 23:26 | 62
Artificial Intelligence
Yes, true, fusion reactors don't work quite yet, but, er, maybe AI can help us stop our experiments from imploding
No neural networks here, though, only decision tree algos
18 Mar 18:30 | 25
Emergent Tech
Eight-core 3.8 GHz CPU. 12 TFLOPS GPU. 1TB NVME SSD. 16GB RAM. Not a half-decent workstation, it's the new Xbox
Microsoft drops some more detail of fourth-gen console: The Series X
18 Mar 05:13 | 38
Artificial Intelligence
One whole day: That's how long Facebook's COVID-19 content moderation went without a mess
AI flagged good content as bad content – and it took the founder of Godwin's Law to point it out
18 Mar 02:24 | 12
Artificial Intelligence
Come back, AI. All is forgiven: We know we've mocked you in the past, but we need help analyzing 26,000 papers on COVID-19, coronaviruses
Please develop machine-learning algos to analyse this text for a vaccine
17 Mar 07:34 | 11
Artificial Intelligence
TensorFlow gets its quantum of solace, lid lifted on 'all-seeing crime-detecting' AI upstart, and more
RoundupPlus: Machine-learning software scans ancient texts
16 Mar 06:33 | 6
Emergent Tech
European electric vehicle sales surged in Q4 2019 but only accounted for wafer-thin slice of total car purchases
'Up 50%' looks good, less so when it's 520,000 out of 15.3 million
13 Mar 09:08 | 96
Emergent Tech
Uncle Sam stonewalls probe into its secretive airport facial-recognition technology. Now the ACLU is suing
All your face are belong to US
12 Mar 23:08 | 8
Artificial Intelligence
AI startup accuses Facebook of stealing code designed to speed up machine learning models on ordinary CPUs
Neural Magic claims algos in social network's open-source compiler on GitHub look awfully familiar
11 Mar 10:01 | 36
Internet of Things
The Internet of Things is a security nightmare reveals latest real-world analysis: unencrypted traffic, network crossover, vulnerable OSes
And the best part of it? Hospitals are most at risk
11 Mar 06:07 | 41
Artificial Intelligence
Think your smartwatch is good for warning of a heart attack? Turns out it's surprisingly easy to fool its AI
Better ask the human doc in the room
10 Mar 06:01 | 37
Artificial Intelligence
Clearview said to be chasing every mugshot taken in the US over the last 15 years to paste into its facial-recog system
RoundupAnd more creepy surveillance AI news
09 Mar 17:11 | 28
Emergent Tech
Chips that pass in the night: How risky is RISC-V to Arm, Intel and the others? Very
ColumnA decade on, expanding open ecosystem highlights limits of monolithic approach to CPU design
09 Mar 10:45 | 92
Artificial Intelligence
AI-predicted protein structures could unlock vaccine for COVID-19 coronavirus... if correct... after clinical trials
It's not quite DeepMind's 'Come with me if you want to live' moment, but it's close, maybe
06 Mar 05:24 | 23
