Aerial ammo deliveries – always handy when you're storming a beach Rise of the Machines The British military's push towards autonomous war machines continued as the Royal Marines tested various items of robot battlefield equipment during a recent e…
Lees meerJust don't think about winter In a bold headhunting effort, the Finnish capital city of Helsinki is offering a sabbatical in the Suomi state for Silicon Valleyites.…
Lees meerAnd bad news for Facebook, Google after Golden State favors online privacy measures Californians have overturned lawmakers in two critical ballot measures covering the gig economy and online privacy, with broader implications for the whole country.…
Lees meerRules loosened by regulator, concerns raised they favor the rich The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has given a big boost to companies seeking crowdfunded investment – think Kickstarter but securities rather than physical stuff you buy.…
Lees meerNCRFRILS had never been disclosed publicly – until court case A protester accused of punching a police officer was arrested after he was identified by facial-recognition software that has not been publicly disclosed before: the National Capital Regi…
Lees meerAnd it’ll be proper SSD, not the cheap NAND muck that drives infotainment systems today, say analysts Passenger cars on sale in 2025 will ship with a terabyte of storage, according to analyst firm Counterpoint, and fully autonomous cabs might need 1…
Lees meerThat or Jack Ma mouthing off about the nation's financial watchdogs The Chinese government on Tuesday halted Ant Group's $35bn stock-market debut, which would have been the world's largest-ever IPO had it happened. The move is being interpreted as B…
Lees meer'Foreign-born scientists, engineers, developers of emerging technology, other highly skilled workers' locked out of America The battle between the tech industry and the Trump administration over work visas continues apace, with no less than 46 tech …
Lees meerYeah, take that, Microsoft, Facebook, Apple, and everyone else who pays that much anyway The decision by the Trump administration to raise the minimum wage that H-1B visa holders must earn in America before they are eligible to work stateside is goi…
Lees meerPlus: Watch a self-driving race car drive into a wall, and download the new version of PyTorch In brief Trey Parker and Matt Stone, best known for their cartoon South Park, have created a new comedy deepfake series called Sassy Justice.…
Lees meerComing soon to an app, maybe Academics claim their AI software can detect, with 98.5 per cent accuracy, whether or not someone has caught the COVID-19 coronavirus, just from the sound of their coughing.…
Lees meerFrom pasta to teleporting robots: something to chew on Something for the Weekend, Sir? Did you enjoy World Pasta Day? It was last Sunday. Me, I made a big bowl of it and tucked in along with my mates Mark Arony and Al Dente.…
Lees meerSnacks will ID themselves using RFID and an app will tell punters when there's cheap chow to be chomped Japan will conduct a test of sandwiches and other snacks that discount themselves as they age.…
Lees meerPlus 8GB RAM, USB, gigabit Ethernet, mini-ITX form, etc... and competition from Microchip SiFive will today unveil its latest developer board, which edges the startup closer to offering what you might consider a fully-fledged RISC-V desktop PC.…
Lees meerKind-of digital currency can shift US Dollars or the Cambodian Riel Cambodia has launched a blockchain-powered peer-to-peer payment system and it’s hoped the scheme reduces use of cash and helps to control the novel coronavirus.…
Lees meerYeah, that Otto work Waymo has partnered with one of the world's largest truck manufacturers to install its fully autonomous self-driving technology into semi-trailer trucks on American roads.…
Lees meerAnother 12 months on Itanium and COBOL for the Australian Stock Exchange One of the world’s most prominent planned uses of distributed ledger technology has been pushed back by a year.…
Lees meerWe'd rather see Dr Nick, to be honest Anyone trying to use OpenAI’s powerful text-generating GPT-3 system to power chatbots to offer medical advice and help should go back to the drawing board, researchers have warned.…
Lees meerMicrosoft program outputs ready-to-roll model from image input set Microsoft has built a desktop app called Lobe that can be used to train object-recognition models without having to write a single line of code. Getting that model into an applicatio…
Lees meerGet a feel for the gizmo's programming environment If you’ve been thinking about playing with an Nvidia single-board computer for an AI task, but you’re not quite ready to part with your cash for something like the Jetson Nano just yet, here’s an ap…
Lees meerWhite House immigration restrictions knock less than half a per cent off The Trump administration's June crackdown on foreign workers with H-1B and other visas wiped $100bn off the stock market value of the largest US companies, according to boffins…
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