The 20th century turned out to be an era of exponential growth in the field of machine learning. The 3000-year-old ancient game of ‘Go’ that computer ...
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Why Amazon’s Ring and facial recognition technology are a clear and present danger to society
“The deployment of connected home security cameras that allow footage to be queried centrally are simply not compatible with a free society.” Amazon e...
All-electric vehicle sharing services in London are being scrapped after their operators say they is no longer economically viable. The French-owned c...
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is already re-configuring the world in conspicuous ways. Data drives our global digital ecosystem, and AI technologies re...
AI is being increasingly used to make important decisions. Many AI experts (including Jeff Dean, head of AI at Google, and Andrew Ng, founder of Cours...
The latest industrial robots look like petting zoo versions of the big machines found in many modern factories – small, cute, and you can play with th...
Technological innovations such as mobile devices and biometrics to capture an entire population’s vital events from birth to death are accelerating pr...
Capturing carbon dioxide from smokestacks, and even removing it directly from air, might be the only way to avert the most catastrophic effects of cli...
Electric cars could make a huge dent in the world’s greenhouse gas emissions. But they still make a tiny 2 percent of cars on the road today. A big sp...
Brazilian and US scientists have developed a glasses-based biosensor capable of measuring blood glucose levels through a person’s tears, offering a le...