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The Department of Homeland Safety has been circulating a memo about how masls could block facial recognition since Black Lives Matter protests began.

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Government Leak: Cops Terrified Masks Will Block Facial Recognition

By Dan Robitzski

A new AI system named SPOCK (yes, we know) can predict the orbit of distant exoplanets to figure out if they're going to collide.

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New AI Predicts Which Planets Are Going to Smash Into Each Other

By Dan Robitzski

MIT permanently deleted a massive dataset used for training AI after learning that it was full of racist and sexist slurs.

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MIT Deletes Database That Taught AI to Be Racist, Sexist

By Dan Robitzski

Ad studios are relying on deepfake tech rather than live actors for corporate videos due to coronavirus lockdown measures and health risks.

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This Company Is Making Corporate Training Videos Using Deepfakes

By Dan Robitzski

A programmer named Aldo Cortesi created an algorithm that draws nonexistent animals, some of which look plausible and others which look like bizarre.

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A Neural Network Generated a Bunch of Mutated-Looking New Animals

By Jon Christian

New proposed legislation would keep facial recognition technology out of the hands of all levels of law enforcement in the U.S.

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Senators Propose a National Ban on Police Facial Recognition

By Dan Robitzski

The first documented case of police facial recognition AI making its first wrongful arrest happened when a man was wrongfully identified as a shoplifter.

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Cops Arrested an Innocent Man Because Facial Recognition Told Them To

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers at Duke University have developed an AI that can generate a detailed computer-generated portrait of a human face from a pixelized version.

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New Algorithm Is a Lot Like the “Enhance!” Feature In “CSI”

By Victor Tangermann

A video of a Dubai policeman crashing a Russian-built hoverbike from an altitude of about 100 feet is going viral on social media.

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Watch a Hoverbike-Riding Cop in Dubai Wipe Out Catastrophically

By Victor Tangermann

A new iPhone update will urge anyone who tells Siri that "all lives matter" to read up on racial issues and visit BlackLivesMatter.com

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Telling Siri “All Lives Matter” Brings up BlackLivesMatter.com

By Dan Robitzski

The artificial intelligence system Microsoft uses to post articles to MSN recently confused two women of color, showing how algorithmic bias is happening.

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Robot Journalist Accused of Racism

By Dan Robitzski

Google's security team confirmed that both the Trump and Biden campaigns were targeted by foreign hackers, with different countries targeting each.

Google: Foreign Hackers Targeting Both Trump and Biden Campaigns

By Dan Robitzski

Artificial intelligence algorithms trained on satellite and mobile data could spot coronavirus victims and help better coordinate humanitarian aid.

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Satellites Are Tracking Poor Nations’ Coronavirus Outbreaks

By Dan Robitzski

Over the weekend, Microsoft laid off some 77 journalists and editors who helped curate the news and replaced them with an AI algorithm.

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MSN Fires Journalists, Replaces Them With AI

By Dan Robitzski

OpenAI recently released Jukebox, and algorithm that can create original songs or mashup-hybrids in the style of over 9,000 artists. We kicked the tires.

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Mind-Melting AI Makes Frank Sinatra Sing “Toxic” by Britney Spears

By Dan Robitzski

In order to train AI that understand the informal ways people actually type, mathematicians analyzed stretchable words like "duuuuude" and "noooo."

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To Train Better AI, Scientists Are Studying Your Weird Tweets

By Dan Robitzski

North Dakota's coronavirus contact-tracing app was send data to third-party groups in violation of its own privacy policy.

Gov Contact-Tracing App Sends User Data to Foursquare, Google

By Dan Robitzski

A team of researchers claim their AI can make accurate personality judgments based on selfies alone — and even better than some humans.

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Researchers: This AI Can Judge Personality Based on Selfies Alone

By Victor Tangermann

A website called thisworddoesnotexist uses AI to generate fake but believable definitions for made-up words like "lachetous."

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This Delightful AI Generates Words That Sound Real But Aren’t

By Dan Robitzski

Renowned neuroscientist Christof Koch argues that developing conscious artificial intelligence will require entirely new hardware.

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Neuroscientist: Conventional Computers Will Never Be Conscious

By Dan Robitzski

The machine learning algorithms that recommend products online can't keep up with how rapidly the pandemic has changed our lives.

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The Pandemic Has Seriously Confused Machine Learning Systems

By Dan Robitzski

John Martinis, a researcher largely credited for Google's success in quantum computers, left the company over philosophical differences with his team.

Some Serious Drama Went Down on Google’s Quantum Computing Team

By Dan Robitzski

A student getting his master's degree in business decided that he didn't want to write some essays. So he had AI do his homework it instead.

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This Grad Student Used a Neural Network to Write His Papers

By Dan Robitzski

A new AI startup called Landing AI has developed a video tool that can tell if people in public are following social distancing rules.

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Pandemic-Inspired AI Narcs You Out For Standing Too Close

By Victor Tangermann

Doctors are using data from a wearable to train an AI algorithm that can tell when someone's sick with COVID-19 even before noticeable symptoms start.

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This Smart Ring Uses AI to Spot COVID-19 — Before Symptoms Begin

By Dan Robitzski

Apple and Google are partnering on a coronavirus tracking app that can tell you if you've recently been exposed to somebody who has tested positive.

Apple and Google to Launch App for Tracking the Coronavirus

By Victor Tangermann

An AI by a risk detection firm was able to predict where the next spike in coronavirus cases will be in the UK and US by analyzing social media posts.

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Data Firm Says Its AI Predicts Where Next COVID-19 Spike Will Be

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists Are Spying on Google Searches to Track the Coronavirus

Scientists Are Spying on Google Searches to Track the Coronavirus

By Dan Robitzski

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This is Urban Art, Created by An AI

By Jägermeister

With more social gatherings happening over video conferences, we're seeing gnarly snack time close-ups. Thankfully, Microsoft AI can edit out eating sounds.

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Microsoft AI Can Now Edit Your Snacking Sounds out of Your Video Chats

By Dan Robitzski

Google has instructed full-time employees to work remotely. But contractors aren't allowed to, revealing a troubling class divide. h

Google Won’t Let Its Army of Contractors Work Remotely

By Dan Robitzski

A New York City woman documented her experience trying to get tested for the COVID-19 coronavirus after showing all the symptoms. Here's what happened.

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Will AI Save Us from Coronavirus?

By Foster Kamer

On Monday, the Pentagon announced the official adoption of a series of new principles for ethical use of artificial intelligence in warfare, the AP reports.

These Are the Pentagon’s New Ethics “Principles” for AI in Warfare

By Foster Kamer

The chess grandmaster took 23 years to deal with having his keester handed to him by an IBM computer in the game he made his name on.

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Chess Grandmaster Kasparov: I’ve Made “Peace” With Robot That Beat My Ass

By Foster Kamer

An impressive new deepfake inserts Amazon boss Jeff Bezos and SpaceX founder Elon Musk into the 1965 pilot episode of storied sci-fi series "Star Trek."

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Cursed Deepfake Shows Jeff Bezos As Veiny-Headed “Star Trek” Alien

By Jon Christian

Elon Musk went on Twitter on Monday night and argued in favor of regulating artificial intelligence (AI) for all companies — including Tesla.

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Elon Musk: Everyone, “Including Tesla,” Needs AI Regulation

By Foster Kamer

A team of researchers have developed a neural network that can predict if asteroids are on a collision course with Earth.

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Neural Network Says These 11 Asteroids Could Smash Into Earth

By Victor Tangermann

An tech company published a website, purportedly meant to help journalists write better, that's using AI to publish believable fake news articles.

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This Site Uses AI to Generate Fake News Articles

By Dan Robitzski

German artist Simon Weckert created his own personal traffic jam on Google Maps by loading 99 smartphones into a small cart and lugging them down a street.

Guy Causes Google Maps “Traffic Jams” By Carrying 99 Cell Phones

By Victor Tangermann

Airbnb uses an AI-powered tool to rate guests' likelihood of exhibiting "untrustworthy" traits, such as narcissism, Machiavellianism, and even psychopathy.

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Airbnb Claims Its AI Can Predict Whether Guests Are Psychopaths

By Kristin Houser

Using a neural network, YouTuber Denis Shiryaev upscaled a short film from 1896 to 4K resolution at 60 frames per second.

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Neural Network Transforms 124-Year-Old Film Into Crisp HD

By Kristin Houser

In the parts of China where medical face masks are mandatory, some find that the facial recognition systems they use to unlock their phones don't work.

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Medical Face Masks Thwart China’s Omniscient Facial Recognition

By Dan Robitzski

Google says a "technical issue" caused its Takeout service to send backups of users' videos to strangers in November 2019.

Google Accidentally Sent Users’ Private Videos to Strangers

By Kristin Houser

By combining the opinions of a lot of humans with artificial intelligence, Unanimous A.I. has created a hive mind to predict the Super Bowl LIV winner.

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Hyper-Intelligent AI Hive Mind Claims to Predict Super Bowl Winner

By Kristin Houser

The U.S. Army is considering a fire control system for its next-gen rifle that would only let soldiers fire if they were guaranteed to hit their targets.

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US Army Considering Rifle That Only Fires When Hit Is Guaranteed

By Dan Robitzski

Google has unveiled a new chatbot named Meena, which it claims is capable of conversing on a level almost equal to humans.

Google Says Its Chatbot Is Capable of Near-Human Conversation

By Kristin Houser

A new study suggests that artificial intelligence might trick us into thinking we see alien technosignatures where none exist.

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AI Might Make Us Mistakenly Think We’ve Found Aliens, Says Study

By Kristin Houser

Scientists at Google just published an incredibly-detailed 3D map of neural connections in the brain of a fruit fly, including 20 million synapses.

Google’s 3D Map of a Fruit Fly Brain Will Blow Your Mind

By Victor Tangermann

A children's hospital being constructed in Dublin might implement facial recognition security cameras. The reasoning? To prevent babies from being stolen.

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Hospital: We Need Facial Recognition to Catch Baby Snatchers

By Dan Robitzski

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) compared facial recognition tech to the dystopian sci-fi series "Black Mirror" during a House committee meeting.

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AOC Warns That Facial Recognition Is “Real-Life ‘Black Mirror'”

By Kristin Houser

The U.S. Army is developing tech that uses facial recognition software to identify targets from up to .5 kilometers away, even in the dark.

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Army Developing Tech to ID Terrorists in the Dark From .5 KM Away

By Kristin Houser

Microsoft has created a tool that analyzes text-based chats for signs of pedophiles online — and it's giving it away for free.

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Microsoft Says New Tool Detects Pedophiles Grooming Kids Online

By Kristin Houser

A team of researchers have developed an AI that can detect hyoglycaemic events — drops in blood sugar — in raw ECG data from a wearable.

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This AI Can Detect Low Blood Sugar From ECG Readings

By Victor Tangermann

Newly leaked videos and a tweet by Pranav Mistry offer a sneak peak at NEON, a Samsung project focused on the creation of "artificial humans."

Artificial Intelligence

Samsung’s Artificial Humans Look Eerily, Well, Human

By Kristin Houser

Samsung has built an "artificial human" called NEON that it plans to unveil at the Consumer Electronics Show kicking off on January 7.

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Samsung Tweets Cryptic Plans to Unveil an “Artificial Human”

By Kristin Houser

Bosch has come up with a clever car windshield cover featuring an AI LCD panel to cast a shadow on the driver's eyes, blocking out only a small portion.

Artificial Intelligence

This Clever Car Add-On Uses AI to Block Out Just The Sun

By Victor Tangermann

A team of UK researchers at Google Health and Google's AI lab DeepMind has created a tool that can successfully identify breast cancer in mammograms.

Google’s New AI is Great at Spotting Breast Cancer in X-Rays

By Victor Tangermann

A group is developing an AI to finished Ludwig van Beethoven's 10th symphony, which the composer was writing when he died in 1827.

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An AI Is Completing Beethoven’s Unfinished Symphony

By Kristin Houser

Google fired a fifth employee who had been trying to organize the comapny's workforce, though the tech giant denies that was the root issue.

Google Reportedly Fires Fifth Worker For Organizing Unionization

By Dan Robitzski

The AI research firm AI Now called for the ban of untested and biased technologies like facial recognition and emotion-detecting algorithms.

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Report: Facial Recognition Should Be Banned From Everyday Life

By Dan Robitzski

A new deepfake shows Trump announcing to the world that Jeffrey Epstein didn't kill himself. And the technology is getting good enough to be convincing.

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Watch a Deepfaked Trump Say Epstein Didn’t Kill Himself

By Dan Robitzski

Larry Page, Google co-founder and former CEO, has been quietly funneling millions of dollars into charities that fund flu vaccine research and distribution.

The Co-Founder of Google Is Quietly Trying to Cure the Flu

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers were able to easily fool facial recognition systems at a variety of places, including banks, border crossings, and airports using a mask.

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Hackers Dupe Facial Recognition Systems With Creepy Mask

By Victor Tangermann

Toys "R" Us has opened two new stores after closing hundreds in 2018, and these ones are equipped with sensors that spy on every move shoppers make.

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Toys “R” Us Says Tech Used to Spy on Shoppers Ignores Children

By Kristin Houser