Cybersecurity
Five Privacy and Security Concerns About Apple’s New FaceID Facial Recognition
This technology is meant to be the successor to the iPhone fingerprint scanner.
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence Is Great at Predicting the Size of Hurricanes, But Humans Still Need to Figure Out Their Impact
One of the modern computer’s first killer apps was predicting the weather.
Artificial Intelligence
Using AI to Identify Protestors Hiding Behind Hats or Scarves Is Entirely Possible
Artificial intelligence is giving rise to unprecedented capabilities for surveillance.
Digital Government
Samsung’s Newest Phones Could Legitimately Replace Your Desktop Computer
Smartphones are getting much more powerful.
Artificial Intelligence
Vladimir Putin Believes Artificial Intelligence Could Lead to Global Monopolies and Drone Wars
Russian companies have been actively researching autonomous weapons, such as drones, robots and missiles, which would be able to pick targets and fire on their own.
Emerging Tech
Google Finally Admits You Don’t Need Special Hardware for Augmented Reality
The tech company officially killed the idea of special sensors for AR phones.
Artificial Intelligence
Researchers Built an Invisible Backdoor to Hack AI’s Decisions
The attack described could make customers warier of how the AI they rely on is trained.
Modernization
This Is the Samsung Note 8, the Phone That Must Not Explode
The new phone resembles a larger version of Samsung’s flagship devices.
Artificial Intelligence
Microsoft Is Fixing a Simple Reason Why Voice Assistants Are So Bad
The tech company hopes to smarten up our dumb bots by making a new dataset available to the public.
Artificial Intelligence
For the First Time, AI Crushed a Professional Dota 2 Player
“This guy is scary,” the human player repeated during play as the bot whittled down his health.
Artificial Intelligence
Andrew Ng Will Help You Change the World With AI if You Know Calculus and Python
If the next era of human progress is built using AI, who gets to engineer it?
Artificial Intelligence
Amazon Could Replace CAPTCHA With a Turing Test You’re Meant to Fail
Amazon could soon rely on our little mistakes to prove we’re human.
Emerging Tech
After Trying to Build Self-Driving Tractors for More Than 20 Years, John Deere Has Learned a Hard Truth About Autonomy
There’s a lot more to driving than just seeing the path before you.
Emerging Tech
Instead of Hacking Self-Driving Cars, Researchers Are Trying to Hack the World They See
A sticker applied to a stop sign could be disastrous.
Artificial Intelligence
MIT Researchers Can Now Track AI’s Decisions Back to Single Neurons
AI researchers have had a breakthrough.
Emerging Tech
The Israeli Army Is Trading its Llamas for Robots
Great news if you’re an Israeli war llama: Your tour of duty is over.
Artificial Intelligence
Facebook Built an AI System That Learned to Lie to Get What it Wants
Humans are natural negotiators. Machines typically don’t share that affinity, but new research from Facebook’s AI research lab might offer a starting point to change that.
Artificial Intelligence
Robots of the Future Will Learn Just Like They Do in Star Trek’s Holodeck
When future robots enter the world, they won’t have a learning curve.
Modernization
Launching His New Company, Even the Man Who Built Android Doesn’t Think He Can Beat Android
This is what smartphone nerds have been waiting for.
Artificial Intelligence
The Next Big Step for AI is Getting Out of the Cloud and Onto Your Phone
AI on your phone will be faster and more secure.
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