It’s all about learning experiences Sponsored Mention AI hardware and you might immediately envision a data centre with racks of specialised servers, with CPUs packing tens of cores that are tuned to handle AI and machine learning, supplemented wit…
Lees meerNope, it just makes them worse RoTM AI and automation in the workplace risk creating new forms of bias and unfairness, worsening inequalities in the world of work, according to a UK think tank report published today.…
Lees meerPlus: Graphcore pits its latest AI chips against Nvidia's A100, and Google CEO apologises for ousting a top AI ethics researcher In brief Huawei, already sanctioned by the US for helping the Chinese government crack down on Uyghur muslims, built fa…
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Lees meerAttempts tech fix to solve aging crisis The Japanese government is splashing ¥2bn ($19m, £14m) to fund digital dating services powered by AI technology in an attempt to boost the country’s flagging birth rate.…
Lees meerFears of bias put compsci dept into damage-limitation mode after years of using it to analyze applications A university announced it has ditched a machine-learning tool used to filter thousands of PhD applications – right as the software's creators …
Lees meerKicks in $400m to get its hands on future tech and cash in on its contribution Uber has driven its self-driving car operation up an off-ramp that leads to the offices of a startup named Aurora that is building self-driving trucks and plans to eventu…
Lees meerPlus: US President signs a new executive order on AI and how JAX is becoming more popular at DeepMind In brief A Canadian security company apparently lied to officials at New York’s Lockport City School District about the accuracy of its facial rec…
Lees meerMachine programming and other future technology touted at Chipzilla shindig Intel on Thursday trotted out its research scientists to talk up technology initiatives that aim to make computation faster and developers less of a liability.…
Lees meerAnd don’t you dare try to get a fax machine into the Middle Kingdom China has restricted export of encryption technologies in the first list on new items published under new export control laws.…
Lees meerWeb giant could be dragged in front of a judge to justify its actions Google unlawfully spied on and interrogated staff to prevent them from organizing a union, and fired two employees in the process, it is claimed.…
Lees meerMaybe this might work after all Loon, known for its giant billowing broadband-beaming balloons, says it has figured out how to use machine-learning algorithms to keep its lofty vehicles hovering in place autonomously in the stratosphere.…
Lees meerSuper Cali goes ballistic, process was atrocious A judge in northern California has struck down the Trump administration’s latest effort to put restrictions on H-1B work visas, making plain his irritation that the case is a virtual repeat of a previ…
Lees meerThough these days it's the darling of the tech shopping cart British chip designer Arm turned 30 last Friday. This is an auspicious occasion. The microprocessor technology drafted by this Cambridge-headquartered outfit form the basis of nearly all s…
Lees meerLab hopes improved tool will be used to craft new medicines faster DeepMind says its AlphaFold machine-learning software can now rapidly predict the structure of proteins with high accuracy, and could one day help us develop drugs faster.…
Lees meerWhen I dreamt of a sci-fi future, I'm pretty sure this wasn't it Something for the Weekend, Sir? Help me up, would you, luvvie?…
Lees meerA grand uddertaking Irish computer vision and AI agriculture specialist Cainthus hopes to raise $50m after launching a facial recognition tool for cows.…
Lees meerFolks get emails explaining how to switch off incoming functionality Amazon is close to launching Sidewalk – its ad-hoc wireless network for smart-home devices that taps into people's Wi-Fi – and it is pretty much an opt-out affair.…
Lees meerWhat untold treasures could these primitive technologies hold? Carriers are eagerly eyeing industrial IoT as a way to fatten slender margins, and diversify from their traditional bread and butter of handset sales and subscriptions. The latest foray …
Lees meerPlus: A new web app from Google to generate AI monsters Drones and machine learning algorithms are helping beachgoers get live updates to alert them whenever sharks are in the water.…
Lees meerHuman contractors battling COVID-19 stress and psychological trauma Facebook’s AI algorithms aren’t effective enough to automatically screen for violent images or child abuse, leaving the job to human moderators who are complaining about having to c…
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