The US says it has a tool that predicts what will piss off China — I have so many questions
The US has unveiled an unusual new approach to saber-rattling with China: emotion predictions.According...
Google announces new AI-powered heart and breathing monitors for Pixel phones
Google announced today that it’s adding AI-powered measurements of heart and respiration rates to th...
Social media’s ‘queer tax’ is exhausting, unfair, and unavoidable
A colleague recently sought my advice on covering a queer-related tech topic and I’m not ashamed to...
Wild theory says the Big Bang wasn’t the beginning
The prevailing theory on the origin of our universe goes like this: about 13.7 billion years ago a single...
New AI tool detects hiring discrimination against ethnic minorities and women
Research shows that various industries have big ethnic and gender pay gaps, but the extent to which discr...
Honey traps and bribery: Ex-Cambridge Analytica CEO slapped with 7-year directorship ban
The disgraced former Cambridge Analytica CEO has been banned from running limited companies in the U...
This manual for a popular facial recognition tool shows just how much the software tracks people
In 2019, the Santa Fe Independent School District in Texas ran a weeklong pilot program with the facial...
Why the Pentagon’s probably drooling over the upcoming Age of Empires 4 launch
Did you know Neural is taking the stage this fall ? Together with an amazing line-up of experts, we will...
EVERYBODY PANIC! The Doomsday Clock is close to the hour of our self-annihilation
It’s been a tough couple of years, but things may soon get a lot worse: the Doomsday Clock just stru...
Everything you need to know about neuromorphic computing
In July, a group of artificial intelligence researchers showcased a self-driving bicycle that could navig...
What Google’s AI-designed chip tells us about the nature of intelligence
This article is part of our reviews of AI research papers , a series of posts that explore the latest...
Anti-trashbug AI scours sky-snaps to spot sea plastic
Scientists from the University of Barcelona have developed an AI app called Marlit that detects floating...
Facebook removes Chinese network of fake accounts that used AI-generated faces
Facebook has taken down a China-based network of fake accounts that used AI-generated faces to spread...
How can we make sure everyone benefits from the next quantum revolution?
Over the past six years, quantum science has noticeably shifted , from the domain of physicists concerned...
Here’s what happened in the world of artificial intelligence in 2020
The year 2020 was long and treacherous, but the biggest bright spot for me was the official launch o...
These BCI headphones use brainwave sensors to measure your focus
Brain-computer interfaces have been a lotta hype since Elon Musk announced his plan to implant micro...
Why the dream of truly driverless cars is slowly dying
We were told there’d be fully-autonomous vehicles dominating roadways across the globe by 2018. When...
AI-Powered information operations and new citizenship
Digital information is power, and today citizens have this new power at their fingertips, channeled throu...
How AI can make the world more fair for ‘gifted’ kids
A team of researchers from Las Vegas recently developed an AI model capable of judging a human piani...
MIT’s new autonomous boat ruled Amsterdam’s canals for 3 hours
When it comes to autonomous transportation, people primarily talk about cars, buses, and lorries. For...