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Singapore already planning version 2.0 contact-tracing wearable

woensdag 17 juni 2020 inThe Register Emergent Tech (Tech News)

Contract awarded for 300,000 units and another tender has been issued The island nation announced the wearable, known as the “TraceTogether Token”, on June 9th and quickly defended the device’s privacy features on grounds that it lacks GPS features …

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Meet the dog that's all byte and no bark: Boston Dynamics touts robo-pooch Spot with $75k-a-pop price tag

woensdag 17 juni 2020 inThe Register Emergent Tech (Tech News)

What's that Lassie? You need a 400MB firmware update and a reboot? Video  Boston Dynamics has put its robot dog Spot on the open market at $74,500 a pop, as long as you promise not to turn it into a home hound.…

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Asia’s Uber equivalent – Grab – lets go of 1 in 20 staff

dinsdag 16 juni 2020 inThe Register Emergent Tech (Tech News)

‘We understand this news will cause anxiety and dread’ CEO tells 360 staff, but won't someone think of the passengers and drivers? Grab, the ride-sharing service that did so well in South-East-Asia that Uber bought a chunk of it and fled, has announ…

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Exoskeletons-as-a-service offered as helping hand to warehouse workers exhausted by pandemic

dinsdag 16 juni 2020 inThe Register Emergent Tech (Tech News)

Light, strong, supportive ... and monitored thanks to ERP integration An outfit named German Bionic has noted that the freight and logistics industries "have been under enormous pressure since the beginning of the pandemic" and suggested exoskeleton…

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Microwave-tech-touting British upstart scores £3.6m to build 'large-scale quantum 'puters'

maandag 15 juni 2020 inThe Register Emergent Tech (Tech News)

Brighton boffin says technology is a 'major engineering challenge' but does not rely on making major physics breakthrough A UK startup has harvested £3.6m in seed funding to put into its vision for the future of quantum computing.…

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Vietnam bans drone flights near all government buildings, borders and factories

maandag 15 juni 2020 inThe Register Emergent Tech (Tech News)

Even the Fatherland Front Central Committee is a no-fly zone Vietnam has banned drones from flying near all government premises on national security grounds.…

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Mine how you go: Kubeflow ML clusters hijacked to craft crypto-coins, Facebook code used to dig up actual minerals

zondag 14 juni 2020 inThe Register Emergent Tech (Tech News)

Plus: Facial-recognition to check whether you glanced at an ad during a football game Roundup  Welcome to your weekly dose of AI-related news beyond what we've already covered.…

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Infosys turns pandemic experience into ‘Return to workplace solutions’

vrijdag 12 juni 2020 inThe Register Emergent Tech (Tech News)

Cloud-and-AI powered video surveillance, maybe even GPS and wearables, to detect close-standers and mask-avoiders Indian services giant Infosys has turned the COVID-19 pandemic into a new range of “Return to workplace solutions.”…

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After IBM axed its face-recog tech, the rest of the dominoes fell like a house of cards: Amazon and now Microsoft. Checkmate

vrijdag 12 juni 2020 inThe Register Emergent Tech (Tech News)

At least its bandwagon-detection AI still works Microsoft said on Thursday it will not sell facial-recognition software to the police in the US until there is federal law to regulate the technology.…

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Well, we tried being a non-profit... OpenAI is now open as in open for business with GPT-3 cloud language model API

vrijdag 12 juni 2020 inThe Register Emergent Tech (Tech News)

This tech can't be all that dangerous if it's now sold as a service OpenAI has launched its first commercial service to generate income as companies generate, analyse, and process text using its machine-learning technology. This business of training…

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Astros get to play with VR while Boeing's Starliner stays on the ground

donderdag 11 juni 2020 inThe Register Emergent Tech (Tech News)

Human eye resolution visuals to simulate the CST-100 or Beat Saber in spaaaace? While its Starliner may have been beaten to the ISS, Boeing has begun to prepare astronauts for the CST-100 experience with the aid of some photorealistic VR.…

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AWS won't sell facial-recog tool to police for a year – other law enforcement agencies are in the clear

donderdag 11 juni 2020 inThe Register Emergent Tech (Tech News)

Cop block doesn't mention BLM, nods to legislative interest in writing rules for AI ethics Amazon Web Services has announced a one-year moratorium on police use of its facial-recognition technology.…

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Sponge code borks square AI brains, sucking up compute power in novel attack against machine-learning systems

woensdag 10 juni 2020 inThe Register Emergent Tech (Tech News)

The inner machinations of my mind are an enigma A novel adversarial attack that can jam machine-learning systems with dodgy inputs to increase processing time and cause mischief or even physical harm has been mooted.…

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Yeah, great start after sacking human hacks: Microsoft's AI-powered news portal mixes up photos of women-of-color in article about racism

dinsdag 9 juni 2020 inThe Register Emergent Tech (Tech News)

Blame Reg Bot 9000 for any blunders in this story, by the way Microsoft's online news service mixed up a singer from the British girl group Little Mix for another mixed-race member of the pop band in an article about racism – after the Windows giant…

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IBM quits facial recognition tech because Black Lives Matter

dinsdag 9 juni 2020 inThe Register Emergent Tech (Tech News)

CEO Arvind Krishna tells Congress it’s time to debate law enforcement reform, including access to AI IBM has discontinued its facial recognition or analysis software.…

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US Air Force wants to pit AI-powered drone against its dogfighting hotshots in battle of the skies next year

dinsdag 9 juni 2020 inThe Register Emergent Tech (Tech News)

Fliers v fine-tuned code, who will win? The US Air Force wants to pit an autonomous aircraft against another fighter jet controlled by a human pilot in July 2021.…

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City of Los Angeles sued for tracking rental scooter rides - that's the rideshare company's job says EFF and ACLU

dinsdag 9 juni 2020 inThe Register Emergent Tech (Tech News)

Maybe they were just baffled to see people getting around without cars The city of Los Angeles is the target of a lawsuit from civil rights groups angry over its tracking of rental scooter rides.…

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BoJo looks to jumpstart UK economy with £6k taxpayer-funded incentive for Brits to buy electric cars – report

maandag 8 juni 2020 inThe Register Emergent Tech (Tech News)

Ditch your diesel or petrol motor for something more Musk-shaped Mop-haired Brit Prime Minister Boris Johnson is considering ways to jumpstart the UK economy, including a scheme to hand £6,000 of taxpayers' cash to every driver who permanently parks…

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Open banking drives strategic growth

vrijdag 5 juni 2020 inThe Register Emergent Tech (Tech News)

Equinix’s platform helps banks and fintech securely connect to each other Sponsored  Open banking is the latest development in the digitalisation of banking. It’s aimed at allowing customers to gain a clearer view of their finances, and regulators i…

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It's nice y'all like our chips but half our sales are from cloud giants, FYI, says Nvidia's chief beancounter

woensdag 3 juni 2020 inThe Register Emergent Tech (Tech News)

Hyperscalers snap up GPUs for AI inference Sales to hyperscale cloud giants now account for half of all Nvidia’s data centre revenues, the graphics giant’s chief financial officer Colette Kress said during a speech at the Bank of America Securities …

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Hoverbikes, Hyperloops and sub-orbital hijinks: Yes, the '3rd, 4th and 5th Dimensions of Travel' are coming soon

woensdag 3 juni 2020 inThe Register Emergent Tech (Tech News)

And you thought getting from the sofa to the laptop was a challenge Bored of just two dimensions of travel? The third, fourth and fifth are on the way, according to a new report.…

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