Book tries to sell science to girls, so our nine year-old Reg reviewer gives her opinion Book review In Dana Dash: First Girl on the Moon, it shouldn't be surprising that Dana Dash, a 10-year-old science-obsessed girl, makes it to and walks on the …
Lees meerDon't bother packing your bags for HSC J1631+4426 just yet, it's 430 million light years away Astronomers have spied a tiny galaxy with the lowest oxygen levels yet observed, a discovery made possible thanks to a machine-learning algorithm.…
Lees meerA neural net takes to heart the old, silly saying: 'On the internet, men are men, women are men, and children are FBI agents' The creators of a controversial tool that attempted to use AI to predict people's gender from their internet handle or emai…
Lees meerWho can you trust these days? The voice applications people use with their Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant smart speaker devices have privacy policies, but most users don't read them and neither device maker has shown much concern about policy pro…
Lees meerBoyfriend-girlfriend and housemate indicted in US on PlexCoin rap Two Canadian lovers and their housemate have been charged with fraud after allegedly netting $8m by selling a made-up cryptocurrency called PlexCoin to victims.…
Lees meerUncle Sam tests AI models with pics of immigrants, travelers. Wait, what? Face masks worn to reduce the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus typically decrease the accuracy of commercial facial recognition algorithms by up to 50 per cent, according to…
Lees meerBut won’t reveal the actual algorithms – or even define what an algorithm is New Zealand has created what it claims is the world’s first “Algorithm Charter” that sets out how government agencies should devise algorithms and explain their workings.…
Lees meerYou see, there is a COVID-19 silver lining. For employers. For the rest of us, welcome to the machine Google has gone all-in on its work-from-home policy, telling techies they don’t need to return to the office until July 2021 at the earliest.…
Lees meerWhat, or rather, who's that going under wheels of Chipzilla's bus? Intel on Monday shook up its engineering management ranks after not only admitting its 7nm manufacturing pipeline had stalled due to defects but also that it is considering asking ri…
Lees meerPlus: AI finance software house reportedly outsourced paperwork processing to... humans In brief An infosec biz has shared an audio clip of what may be a software-generated voicemail message, designed to impersonate a CEO to trick a company employe…
Lees meerWant your AI assistant to shout obscenities or hate speech at your child? There's a program for that Amazon claims it reviews the software created by third-party developers for its Alexa voice assistant platform, yet US academics were able to create…
Lees meerWell, when the chips are down... Nvidia is reportedly pondering snapping up Arm, going as far as approaching the Softbank-owned microprocessor designer to talk about a potential takeover.…
Lees meerCloaking code contaminates snapshots so they're useless for face matching Researchers at the University of Chicago's Sand Lab have developed a technique for tweaking photos of people so that they sabotage facial-recognition systems.…
Lees meerGives itself a job to ‘protect the public conversation’ Twitter has decided to crack down on Qanon, the bizarre conspiracy theory that suggests US president Donald Trump is working to expose a cabal of deep-state Satanist paedophiles that secretly r…
Lees meerNo, surely not, no way, we're utterly shocked America's financial watchdog has taken a Silicon Valley AI startup and its CEO to court for allegedly swindling $11m from investors by forging fake bank statements to lie about its revenues.…
Lees meerBut will the UPC will be legal – or even worthwhile – without Britain? Analysis The UK has formally ditched the Unified Patent Court (UPC), a project to create a single pan-European patent system that would fix the confusing mess of contradictory l…
Lees meerFunny that! The World Health Organisation’s Facebook Messenger chatbot refuses to break out the latest numbers of COVID-19 cornavirus cases and deaths for Taiwan and Hong Kong.…
Lees meerAlso: Create the killer AI Doom player on a workstation In brief A judge in Munich has ruled in favor of banning Tesla Germany from repeating misleading descriptions of its Autopilot software in adverts.…
Lees meerI am not a .... {NASA nightmare brought to life by AI} On the 51st anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing, MIT boffins have given an insight into an alternative history, one where US president Richard Nixon paid tribute to the astronauts who would not…
Lees meerDrones and satellite imagery probably better than sending out four helicopters at a time – or counting poop Herbivores may not be the first things that spring to mind when devising the latest application of the technology world's overflowing toolbox…
Lees meerChairman Mark Liu is carefully abiding by Uncle Sam's new rules Super-duper chip maker TSMC told investors it will stop exporting supplies to its number-two customer Chinese telecoms manufacturer Huawei from mid-September.…
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