You might want to wash the rolling pin first Something for the Weekend, Sir? Three weeks in to 2021 and we’ve run out of the leftovers at last. Things tend to get somewhat overcooked over the traditional holiday period and I’m pleased to see the ba…
Lees meerBoffins develop improved image poisoning technique to preserve privacy A group of computer scientists has released a privacy-focused web application to poison people's online images so they confuse commercial facial recognition systems.…
Lees meerASOP effort could help bring UI to industrial, IoT, embedded gear Alibaba-owned T-Head Semiconductor says it has ported Android 10 to its own RISC-V chips, highlighting increased momentum for the open-source instruction set architecture (ISA) agains…
Lees meerAnother unfortunate UAV episode for Sussex cops A police drone operator managed to switch his craft off mid-flight, dropping it squarely into a pond while attempting to search for a missing person.…
Lees meerPlus: Google trains 1.6-trillion-parameter AI model, popular software used for job screenings scraps facial-recognition feature In brief Just days before President Trump is due to leave office, the White House created its National Artificial Intell…
Lees meerIdiot faces up to a year in the cooler after FBI tracks him down from SD card found in prang wreckage A man in California faces up to a year behind bars and a fine for crashing his drone into a police helicopter, forcing an emergency landing.…
Lees meerHave you finished that sandwich? If not, it’s classified as contraband Something for the Weekend, Sir? What was the big story of 2020? With the luxury of two weeks' hindsight, I think we can all agree: it was, of course, the year autonomous vehicle…
Lees meerAction plan to regulate machine-learning software in 2021 revealed The US Food and Drug Administration wants manufacturers to specifically label AI-powered medical devices to help patients understand the technology, and to test them on real-world da…
Lees meerFace-recognition biz hammered after harvesting people's pics, videos without permission A California-based facial recognition biz has been directed by the US Federal Trade Commission to delete the AI models and algorithms that it developed by harves…
Lees meerEr, we mean 'distinguished', 'seasoned', 'battle-tested' Smartphones have a finite usefulness before they’re stuffed in a drawer, or shipped to a recycling facility where they’re disassembled and melted down for raw materials. Hoping to extend that …
Lees meerSome software errs on the side of caution too often, it is claimed A number of AI programs trained to detect diabetic eye damage struggle to perform consistently in the real world despite apparently excelling in clinical tests, say scientists in the…
Lees meerPlus: US ban on selling AI code to China renewed for 2021, and Jim Keller hired by Canadian AI chip startup In brief The facial recognition company said to have identified antifa members among rioters who ransacked Capitol Hill last week denied tha…
Lees meerBoffins to get express delivery as SpaceX Dragon capsule returning from ISS will be first science payload to splash down near Florida, SpaceX will on Monday retrieve the Dragon capsule it sent to the international space station on December 8th, 2020…
Lees meerTied to PCs or those Motorola phones everyone is ignoring Lenovo has introduced “enterprise smart glasses” that it says can project up to five 1080p windows onto your eyeballs.…
Lees meerHuman art will still, erm, probably prevail OpenAI released a sneak peak of its latest GPT-3-based neural network, a 12-billion-parameter model capable of automatically generating hundreds of fake images when it is given a text caption, stylized as …
Lees meerLet's see Gartner top this Column This time last year, it would have been a simple matter to predict that the world's supply chain would be disrupted for all things tech, and that it would not be Trump who did it, but a sudden, unexpected pandemic …
Lees meerTech slinger upset it can't unload $560,000 worth of flying Chipzilla gizmos A drone reseller has sued Intel for hyping its Falcon 8+ drone system and for delivering a supposedly subpar product without the promised capabilities.…
Lees meerSpaceX man rubbishes rumoured tech in future Apple car Elon Musk says he once tried to sell Tesla to Apple, but Cupertino wouldn’t even agree to a meeting with CEO Tim Cook.…
Lees meerHow to always be on the wrong side of tech fashion Something for the Weekend, Sir? "It will never catch on." The next thing you know, you’re staring at a badly drawn zob scrawled over Shakespeare's shimoneta*.…
Lees meerRepudiates the work, says it was never used by a customer. Which is just what Huawei said Alibaba Group today admitted its cloud business developed what it is described as “a facial recognition technology … that included ethnicity as an algorithm at…
Lees meerNo new hobbyist projects from January, everything deleted the following year Google is discontinuing its Android Things IoT platform for non-commercial users. The Chocolate Factory will not allow the creation of new projects after 5 January and the …
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