Top uni takes action after El Reg highlights concerns by academics Special report MIT has taken offline its highly cited dataset that trained AI systems to potentially describe people using racist, misogynistic, and other problematic terms.…
Lees meerCodeGuru guesstimates how much AWS will charge you to run that source on its cloud Amazon has made its machine-learning-tools that automatically review and profile code, so you can find out where bottlenecks are and how it's going to cost you in the…
Lees meerPlus: Amazon buys self-driving startup, and more In brief A handful of Democrat Senators and House reps say they will introduce legislation that would stop the Feds and cops in the US from using facial-recognition surveillance gear.…
Lees meerRequest for injunction raises pressure on cash-burning ride hailing apps California's Attorney General and the City Attorneys from Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Francisco have asked a judge to force ride-hailing services Lyft and Uber to classify …
Lees meerAnother machine-learning model that can't tell people of color apart? Shocker The American Civil Liberties Union has formally complained to Detroit police, who wrongfully arrested and locked up a dad after he was misidentified as a thief by facial-r…
Lees meerResearchers used a pretrained off-the-shelf model from Nvidia A new computer vision technique that helps convert blurry photos of people into fake, realistic images has come under fire for being racially biased towards white people.…
Lees meerMakes sense while enterprises wrestle with new ways of working The hackneyed saying that revenue is vanity, profit is sanity and cash is reality might easily be applied to Blue Prism, the vendor of software robots and automation tools.…
Lees meerSpringer ditches paper from research tome after mass protest by boffins over junk science Springer Nature has reversed its decision to publish a paper describing a neural network supposedly capable of detecting criminals from their faces alone – aft…
Lees meerHomeKit still playing catch-up though facial rec and better automation still a step in the right direction WWDC Apple has added facial recognition and new automation features to its smart home products, edging its HomeKit system forward while still…
Lees meerFounder posts bail as German investigators probe accounting scandal Markus Braun, who resigned as CEO of financial services firm Wirecard AG last week, was arrested by police in Munich, Germany, on Monday and released after posting €5m ($5.7m) bail.…
Lees meerMiddle Kingdom completes its third-generation positioning system The delayed launch of China's 35th and final third-gen Beidou satellite today gives the Middle Kingdom a completed advanced global positioning network.…
Lees meerThat AI-powered product and price recommendation engine? Useless now Machine learning models built for doing business prior to the COVID-19 pandemic will no longer be valid as economies emerge from lockdowns, presenting companies with new challenges…
Lees meerTo save telco workers from climbing the greasy pole as networks get denser The current febrile information climate might not be the best time to combine AI, 5G, cloud and drones, but Samsung has done it because the company is conspiring to ease netw…
Lees meerYes, this will help health pros. But after seeing it thrust a swab into your schnoz, you may want to avoid testing by humans or robots VIDEO The South Korean Institute of Machinery and Materials has developed a robotic rig capable of shoving a COVI…
Lees meerLatest sat launch was postponed but China's GPS alternative network is nearly finished China has signalled it anticipates further collaboration with Pakistan around Beidou, the middle kingdom’s satellite navigation constellation.…
Lees meerStop! In the name of tax! Before you break my bank! Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and a host of other tech giants will have to pay billions of dollars in extra tax after the Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal on a stock-option case.…
Lees meerPlus: AI for the benefit of humankind group loses a member and more Roundup Windows fans can finally train and run their own machine learning models off Radeon and Ryzen GPUs in their boxes, computer vision gets better at filling in the blanks and …
Lees meerAn AI engineer recounts his previous woes to The Register Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are a brilliant idea: get two neural networks and pit them against each other to get a machine to generate completely new, realistic looking images. But…
Lees meerOh OK, so NOW the social network cares about getting people's permission before using their data to train computer systems Special report Five engineers missed out on sharing a top prize of $500,000 in a Facebook-backed AI competition – after they …
Lees meerThe yellow markings on the floor aren't enough for real neural networks Vid Amazon has tapped up artificial intelligence to help its warehouse employees keep six feet apart to curb the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus.…
Lees meerCollection of bugs, dubbed Ripple20, sink widely used TCP/IP stack A bunch of flaws in a commonly used TCP/IP software stack have put potentially tens of millions of Internet-of-Things devices, healthcare equipment, industrial control systems, and o…
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