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Facial recognition in schools will normalize surveillance
In conversation with my teenage daughter last week, I pointed out a news report which flagged concerns over the use of facial recognition technologies in several school canteens…
Scientists create a synthetic soft surface with human tongue-like textures using 3D printing
Scientists claim to have created the first ever synthetic tongue using 3D printing.
The 'biometric tongue', developed in the UK, mimics the elasticity, wettability and…
Paper folding tasks can reduce nausea by more than half, study finds
Carrying out regular 'pen-and-paper' exercises can reduce nausea during travel by more than 50 per cent, UK scientists claim. Cognitive training tasks, including identifying how…
Physics: controversial theory argues that the entire universe is a neural network
The universe could be a neural network — an interconnected computational system similar in structure to the human brain — a controversial theory has proposed.As created by…
Why you shouldn’t mistake AI for automation
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Google says it’s going to sell ethics advice to AI companies
Google‘s working on a service that would provide ethics consulting for companies building AI solutions.
According to a report from Wired, the…
Software engineers are the backbone of space tech — this is what they do
When we think about space exploration, we tend to think of astronauts, rockets, or the International Space Station. Maybe we also think about a team of experts sitting in the…
Apple cost social media $10B. Here are the ads that cash could buy
Apple’s introduction of App Tracking Transparency hasn’t proven popular with social media platforms.
The privacy shift has vaporized an estimated $9.85…
AI co-pilots US Air Force spy plane for the first time
An AI system has helped control a US military aircraft for the first time ever, the Air Force announced on Wednesday.
The ARTUµ algorithm flew alongside a pilot…
Object-oriented programming is dead. Wait, really?
Programming in the 1960s had a big problem: computers weren’t that powerful yet, and somehow they needed to split the capacities between data structures and procedures.This…