Humans live in the real world, machines don't, study finds AI-powered machines may be able to generate text that is grammatically correct and very human-like, but when it comes to common sense they’re still lagging severely behind us meatbags.…
Lees meerGather ‘round, Blockheads, so we can explain this thing called a ‘virtual machine’ and why it matters Blockheads are about to get a new appreciation of private clouds and application packaging, after VMware launched a Blockchain product.…
Lees meerBad boys, bad boys, what you gonna do when they run an algorithm for you? The Los Angeles police department (LAPD) has banned commercial facial recognition software and launched a review after 25 officers were accused of using it unofficially to try…
Lees meerSecure coding, identity management, patching, configuration controls, what madness is this? Every now and again the US Congress manages to do its job and yesterday was one of those days: the Senate passed a new IoT cybersecurity piece of legislation…
Lees meerDowntime infuriates customers – guess they'll have to just swallow it Nest is down - again.…
Lees meerPlus: Uber to sell off its self-driving unit, and pay $200 to spy on anyone you'd like in Russia In brief Thousands of nude images from a popular dataset designed to train machine learning models to create AI-generated adult content are often taken…
Lees meerWhen recommendation engines promote misinformation during a pandemic, it's a matter of life and death My television is trying to radicalise me with an endless stream of recommendations to watch videos from a mainstream media outlet that deliberately…
Lees meerThese algorithms identify different types of viruses, we're told Boffins have demonstrated that machine-learning algorithms may be able to help scientists identify viruses, and could even be used to develop more efficient tests for the presence of t…
Lees meerDetecting deceptive websites as soon as they get registered may help reduce the contagion of misinformation Academics in the US and UK have created a machine-learning tool for predicting when newly registered internet domains will be used to spread …
Lees meerMan jailed for 51 months after pilot temporarily blinded by the light An idiot who directed a laser at a police helicopter, temporarily blinding the pilot while he was searching for a shooting suspect, has been sent down for four-and-a-quarter years…
Lees meerThey have a point Uber and Lyft have asked a California court to scrap an injunction that forces them to treat their drivers as employees given that the US state's voters backed Proposition 22.…
Lees meerWill come as standard from 2022, but other auto-makers have worked on the same kit and code so could catch up fast Hyundai Motor Group has announced an extensive collaboration with NVIDIA that will see the GPU-slinger’s DRIVE platform pull up inside…
Lees meerHints at fun to come in 2021, for photographers and industry alike Sony has announced a drone division called “Airpeak”.…
Lees meerStill not as fast as an old Pendolino Updated Virgin Hyperboleloop was cock-a-hoop over the weekend after blasting a pair of employees along its Las Vegas test tube.…
Lees meerDelivery is even profitable in some places, whole company be kind-of in the black by 2021 Uber last week revealed that it currently derives most of its revenue from delivery services.…
Lees meerPlus: Waymo stops in SF and vegan milk designed by machine-learning In brief Denizens of Portland, Maine, have voted to give themselves the power to extract penalties from police and local government for the unlawful use of facial-recognition softw…
Lees meerWhich could be useful for AI assistants as they'll know whether you're barking orders at them or the kids or the TV Video To improve how people talk to machines in environments with multiple network-connected devices, boffins at Carnegie Mellon Uni…
Lees meer'What are you buying, Dave? We should talk about this' Something for the Weekend, Sir? It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you have clicked o…
Lees meerPlus or minus a load of caveats San Francisco will tax businesses slightly more if a chief executive earns orders of magnitude more than their rank-and-file employees after residents voted in favor of the rule.…
Lees meer'Individual X' said to have surrendered the digital dosh The US Department of Justice on Thursday filed a legal request to formally take control of more than $1bn in Bitcoin (BTC) generated from the sales of illicit goods at Silk Road.…
Lees meerConvert a jumble of documents into neatly structured data - if you are lucky Google Cloud Platform is previewing Document AI, a new service for automatic extraction of data from documents, such as key/value pairs in forms, with a choice of parsers a…
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