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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."

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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.

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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

A team of researchers used a type of artificial intelligence (AI) to predict ADHD in patients by having it analyze magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans.

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This AI Can Detect ADHD Better than Humans

By Victor Tangermann

NVIDIA has built an AI that can create a detailed 3D model of an object in less than 100 milliseconds from just a single image of it.

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New AI Can Create a 3D Model of an Object From a Single 2D Image

By Kristin Houser

Music website Genius is suing Google and its lyrics partner, LyricFind, for $50 million for allegedly copying lyrics directly from its site.

Genius Sues Google for Allegedly Stealing Its Music Lyrics

By Kristin Houser

Australia's New South Wales is rolling out a system of AI cameras designed to catch drivers using their mobile phones illegally.

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On Your Phone While Driving? These AI Cameras Will Snitch on You.

By Kristin Houser

A new law in China will make it illegal to create or share deepfakes without properly disclosing that they're not real videos.

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China Makes Deepfakes Illegal

By Dan Robitzski

To the surprsie of nobody, the Dubai Police department is officially planning on adding Tesla Cybertrucks to its fleet.

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Dubai is Adding Tesla Cybertrucks to its Police Car Fleet

By Victor Tangermann

The best way to help robots learn to deal with new challenges might be to let them explore the world like children do: in supervised day care centers

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This Psychologist Wants to Create Day Care Centers for Robots

By Kristin Houser

During the segment Grimes, who studied neuroscience before pursuing her music career, opined that humanity is at the "end of art, human art."

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Grimes: Humanity Is At The “End of Art, Human Art”

By Tag Hartman-Simkins

Just in time for the holiday season, AI researcher Janelle Shane taught an AI around 2,000 existing names of pies and some juicy Harry Potter fan fiction.

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This AI Came Up With Hilarious Pie Names Based on Harry Potter

By Victor Tangermann

Lee Se-dol, the Go champion who lost to DeepMind's AI Go player, announced that he's quitting professional Go because the algorithms are too good.

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Human Go Champion Who Lost to AI Says Machines Cannot Be Defeated

By Dan Robitzski

Google fired four employees who were helping lead the workforce's push to organize and form a union, prompting accusations of deliberate union-busting.

Google Just Fired Four Union Organizers

By Dan Robitzski

New deepfake-creating AI can make someone look and sound like Joe Rogan. While it's not perfect, it paints a troubling picture of the future.

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Amazing AI Makes You Look and Sound Exactly Like Joe Rogan

By Dan Robitzski

Google is reportedly ending its controversial program where it scanned homeless people's faces and turned them into AI training data.

Google Decides to Stop Training AI on Homeless People’s Faces

By Dan Robitzski

When a robot talked trash against its opponents, it hurt their feelings and they performed worse at a game researchers use to study human rationality.

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Study: Trash-Talking Robots Can Hurt Your Delicate Feelings

By Kristin Houser

Physicist and author Arthur Miller shares his thoughts on the future of artificial intelligence, art, and what it means for machines to be creative.

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Someday, Robot Artists May Have to Explain Their Creations to Us

By Dan Robitzski

A new AI system called SchNOrb can probe the quantum mechanics of compounds to help scientists design new molecules from scratch.

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AI Is Learning Quantum Mechanics to Design New Molecules

By Dan Robitzski

A truly bizarre evangelical app tries to keep people from watching porn by using AI to filter it out and sending alerts to their friends if they slip up.

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Horrible Christian App Narcs to Your Mom If You Watch Porn

By Dan Robitzski

Google is secretly working with one of the biggest healthcare systems in the U.S. to collect personal medical records from millions of Americans.

Google Is Secretly Hoarding Your Medical Records

By Victor Tangermann

Using head-mounted cameras to scan faces in Washington, D.C., Fight for the Future protestors hoped to draw attention to facial recognition surveillance.

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Protestors Wearing Head-Mounted Cameras Scan 13,000 Faces in DC

By Kristin Houser

Artificial intelligence startup OpenAI has released the full version of GPT-2, an algorithm capable of writing coherent paragraphs of text.

OpenAI Just Released the AI It Said Was Too Dangerous to Share

By Kristin Houser

This AI Draws Horrifying New Pokémon

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This AI Draws Horrifying New Pokémon

By Victor Tangermann

According to an exclusive report by The Wall Street Journal, Google will start offering bank checking accounts to its Google Pay customers.

Google Is Going to Start Offering Bank Accounts

By Victor Tangermann

A Redditor claims they are falling in love with GPT-2, an AI that churns out paragraphs of mostly coherent text in response to a prompt.

Redditor Claims They Fell In Love With OpenAI’s Neural Network

By Kristin Houser

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Steve Wozniak Says the Apple Card Discriminated Against His Wife

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers at a U.S. healthcare provider trained an AI to predict when you'll die by which patients were at a higher risk of dying within the next year.

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This AI Knows When You’ll Die and Its Creators Don’t Know How

By Victor Tangermann

Russian researchers have created an AI that analyzes electroencephalography data and draws what a person is looking at in real time.

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This AI Decodes Your Brainwaves and Draws What You’re Looking at

By Kristin Houser

A Redditor designed a hat to thwart facial recognition by literally putting on a picture of Chinese President XI Jinping's face which blocks their face.

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This Ingenious Hat Blocks Facial Recognition

By Dan Robitzski

NVIDIA researchers have created a new AI that needs one full body photo of a person to make them look like they’re dancing.

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New AI Can Make a Vid of You Dancing Like a Pro From a Single Pic

By Kristin Houser

Cybercriminals could hack Siri, Alexa, and other voice-activated AI assistants using beams of light, according to new research.

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Hackers Can Access Your Alexa by Shining a Laser in Your Window

By Kristin Houser

Google has purchased Fitbit for $2.1 billion, but it promises not to try to recoup any of that money by using people's health data to sell ads.

Google Buys Fitbit, Promises Not to Use Health Data to Sell Ads

By Kristin Houser

The 1982 sci-fi film "Blade Runner" takes place in November 2019. Needless to say, our tech fell a teensy bit short of what the movie predicted.

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“Blade Runner” Was Set This Month. Where Are Our Flying Cars?

By Dan Robitzski

Belgium-based machine learning researcher and educator Xander Steenbrugge has developed a neural network AI that can turn music into trippy animations.

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Watch an AI Turn Music Into a Brain-Melting Visualization

By Victor Tangermann

The latest from music coding group Dadabots is a neural net trained on Cannibal Corpse music and lyrics that writes endless metal about killing humans.

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Researchers Trained a Neural Net Using a Cannibal Corpse Album

By Dan Robitzski

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This 26 Year Old Hacker Says He Made a Self-Driving Car in One Month

If the Department of Home Affairs gets its way in Australia, a face scan will be used to verify the ages of people visiting porn websites.

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Australians May Be Forced to Scan Their Faces to Watch Porn

By Kristin Houser

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This Electric Toothbrush Uses AI Because Nothing is Sacred Anymore

By Victor Tangermann