Lawsuit challenges robo-dismissals, Uber insists it manually reviewed cases Four Uber drivers in the UK and Portugal who claim they were dismissed unfairly by the company's anti-fraud algorithm have challenged their account deactivations in a Europe…
Lees meerCombined org hoping to attract more industry support LF AI Foundation and Open Data Platform Initiative (ODPi), until now two orgs under the Linux Foundation umbrella, are merging to become the LF AI and Data Foundation, a home for projects devoted …
Lees meerPlus: Facebook won't get lost in translation, Cruise all set to build fleet of driverless taxis, and more In brief An activist in Portland, Oregon, claims to have trained a facial recognition model that is able to identify one-fifth of the police w…
Lees meerIt takes 'grit' to send in a holograph to meetings instead of struggling with mute buttons yourself... Forrester has offered its contribution to the pantheon of failed predictions gathering smart-dust in the broom cupboard of IT history with its ass…
Lees meerIBM builds AI that correctly predicts onset of Alzheimer’s 71% of the time, better than standard clinical tests Machine-learning algorithms analyzing human communication can predict whether someone will develop Alzheimer’s disease more accurately th…
Lees meerI feel the need, the need for 16mph taxiing in safety Rise of the Machines Boeing has successfully taxied its Loyal Wingman robot fighter jet around an airfield, a key milestone for the aircraft to operate fully autonomously.…
Lees meerOnline payment goliath wants to encourage global use of virtual dosh The value of Bitcoin spiked on Wednesday after PayPal said it would soon start accepting cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash, and Litecoin, through its onli…
Lees meerVIU7 core is 64-bit, runs Linux, supports RV vector extension SiFive, in its ongoing march to help make RISC-V a mainstream processor architecture, will today launch its VIU7 CPU core capable of accelerating vector math.…
Lees meerCan help build more efficient recommendation algos, amongst other stuff it hopes users want Neo4j has added graph embeddings to its machine learning workbench in the hopes data scientists using its graph database will gain a productivity boost.…
Lees meerEthos-U65 sounds like an industrial techno band from the 1990s but, well, it isn't Arm this week launched its Ethos-U65 AI accelerator for running workloads on edge devices and other gear.…
Lees meerWait until the ‘we need backdoors’ crowd hears about this Toshiba has said it is ready to start selling a commercial quantum key distribution (QKD) product, and will eventually move to offer QKD as-a-service.…
Lees meerSurreal tales from the Midwest It’s been three years since Wisconsin approved more than $3bn in incentives to bring Foxconn to the US state.…
Lees meerFine, try this one: Hmm mmm egregious web monopoly mmm-mmm hmm radicalizing video algorithms mm In brief You can recall a song’s melody clearly in your mind though the name of it completely slips your tongue. What do you do? Well, now you can hum i…
Lees meerBetter-than-before code to make Office more accessible Microsoft has built a machine-learning model that automatically captions images in documents and emails so that the descriptions can be dictated by software for visually impaired users. It's cla…
Lees meerAlready has QKD in space. Next: ban-busting qubit-crunchers? Chinese premier Xi Jinping has told the nation to hurry up and do whatever it takes to commercialise quantum technology.…
Lees meerAnd the Chocolate Factory isn't the only one bragging about ML with little evidence of its success Distinguished doctors have publicly criticized Google and others for making grand claims about AI research and then not sharing the source code and mo…
Lees meerGoodbye, Dave A NASA-funded project has demonstrated how deep-learning algorithms can help experts determine from satellite scans whether a volcano is due to erupt or not.…
Lees meerOuch, that 'smarts' As one of the pandemic winners (in terms of customers), Atlassian is keen that all those newly remote workers sign up to its cloud services and to that end has waved the machine-learning wand over more of its wares.…
Lees meerBasically nobody trusts Facebook Analysis Global banking body the Financial Stability Board (FSB) has given a tentative green light to cross-border digital payments systems, producing a roadmap for making it a reality.…
Lees meerPlus: Waymo risks driverless car trial, ML papers now include code, and AI will write your dev CV for you In brief Facebook's computer-vision algorithm flagged an innocuous advert for onions posted on its social media platform for being "overtly se…
Lees meerIt was just code left over from a prototype, says hardware maker The Xplora 4 smartwatch, made by Chinese outfit Qihoo 360 Technology Co, and marketed to children under the Xplora brand in the US and Europe, can covertly take photos and record audio…
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