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These Weird, Unsettling Photos Show That AI is Getting Smarter
Models are learning how to generate images from captions, a sign that they're getting better at understanding our world.
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Machines can Spot Mental Health Issues—If you Hand Over your Personal Data
Digital diagnosis could transform psychiatry by mining your most intimate data for clues. But is the privacy cost worth it?
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The Quest for Quantum-Proof Encryption Just Made a Leap Forward
The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology says there are 15 contenders remaining in its competition to develop quantum-proof encryption, down from...
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Prepare to be Tracked and Tested as You Return to Work
Many reopening businesses will ask workers to take coronavirus tests, report symptoms, don masks, wear dongles, and work under the gaze of new sensors and cameras...
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Our Weird Behavior During the Pandemic is Messing With AI Models
Machine-learning models trained on normal behavior are showing cracks —forcing humans to step in to set them straight.
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COVID-19 has Blown Apart the Myth of Silicon Valley Innovation
The pandemic shows that the U.S. is no longer much good at coming up with technologies relevant to our most basic needs.
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Radio Corona, May 5: Vint Cerf, Internet Pioneer and COVID-19 Survivor
In this episode of Radio Corona, Gideon Lichfield will discuss the future of our connected world with Vint Cerf, one of the people known as a "father of the internet...
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Doctors are Using AI to Triage COVID-19 patients. The Tools May Be Here to Stay
Faced with staff shortages and overwhelming patient loads, a growing number of hospitals are turning to automated tools to help them manage the pandemic.
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Why the Coronavirus Lockdown is Making the Internet Stronger Than Ever
Far from breaking it, the surge in usage the internet is seeing right now is driving a major upgrade.
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WhatsApp is Limiting Message Forwarding to Combat Coronavirus Misinformation
From today, messages identified as "highly forwarded" can be forwarded to a single person, instead of five.
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This Robot Taught Itself to Walk Entirely on Its Own
Researchers at Google have developed a four-legged robot that learned to walk completely on its own in just a few hours.
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IBM's Debating AI Just Got a Lot Closer to Being a Useful Tool
IBM upgraded the neural networks of its Project Debater system to improve the quality of evidence the argument-mining system uncovers.
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Why the Quantum Internet Should Be Built in Space
Louisiana State University researchers have proposed a satellite array for building a global quantum Internet to broadcast entangled photon pairs to two different...
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A Virtual Version of da Vinci's Mystery Glass Orb Has Helped Explain Its Weirdness
Researchers used computer graphics software to reproduce Leonardo da Vinci's painting Salvator Mundi in order to study how light refracts through glass orbs.
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Baidu Has Trick for Teaching AI the Meaning of Language
Chinese technology company Baidu outperformed Microsoft and Google in the General Language Understanding Evaluation, a benchmark for artificial intelligence comprehension...
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Why The Rise of the App Has Put Thousands of People in the Hospital
People are being distracted by apps on their phones, and getting injured as a result.
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Facebook is Under Fire for Political Ads. Twitter Just Banned Them Completely.
Twitter will ban political ads—both for candidates and for specific issues—starting November 22, according to CEO Jack Dorsey.
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New York City’s first self-driving shuttle service launches today
Six autonomous six-seater shuttles will be offering free rides around a one-mile loop of New York's Brooklyn Navy Yard.
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Ambient AI is About to Devour the Software Industry
Amazon has casually unveiled what could turn into a fundamentally different way to build software.
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