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It used to be that while Google wanted China, China really needed Google. Not any more. | Continue reading
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IBM researcher Shari Trewin on why bias against disability is much harder to squash than discrimination based on gender or race. | Continue reading
A maverick neuroscientist believes he has deciphered the code by which the brain forms long-term memories. | Continue reading
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The new National Quantum Initiative Act will give America a national masterplan for advancing quantum technologies. | Continue reading
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Jian-Wei Pan, China’s “father of quantum”, is masterminding its drive for global leadership in technologies that could change entire industries. | Continue reading
An Amazon user in Germany was accidentally sent 1,700 audio recordings of someone he didn’t know, after he requested his own data file, exercising his rights under the EU’s GDPR. | Continue reading
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A food delivery robot caught fire on the campus of UC Berkeley on Friday, prompting an outpouring of grief online and leading students to set up a candlelit memorial to the “KiwiBot. | Continue reading
Machine learning reveals a disturbing level of harassment, abuse, and trolling aimed at women and minorities on Twitter. | Continue reading
Physicists have argued for 50 years over which of two theories explains how fish produce thrust. Now a computer simulation has provided the answer. | Continue reading
As the US Senate debates a new bill, a data-governance expert presents a plan to protect liberty and freedom in the digital age. | Continue reading
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Artificial intelligence is booming in Europe, China, and the US, but it’s still a very male industry. | Continue reading
Pump-and-dump schemes have become increasingly common in cryptocurrency markets. Now security researchers have learned how to spot them in advance. | Continue reading
Artificial intelligence is being industrialized at remarkable speed in Europe, China, and the US, but diversity remains a problem. | Continue reading
When Google announced that it would absorb DeepMind’s health division, it sparked a major controversy over data privacy. | Continue reading
Researchers borrowed equations from calculus to redesign the core machinery of deep learning so it can model continuous processes like changes in health. | Continue reading
Chemists found a material that can display superconducting behavior at a temperature warmer than it currently is at the North Pole. The work brings room-temperature superconductivity tantalizingly close. | Continue reading
Other nations may soon join a council to discuss the impact and the potential of artificial intelligence. | Continue reading
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A UK parliamentary committee has published 250 pages’ worth of Facebook documents, including e-mails sent between CEO Mark Zuckerberg and other senior executives. | Continue reading
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NASA’s Osiris-Rex spacecraft has arrived at the asteroid Bennu and will shortly start studying the rock, in the hope it can uncover clues about the origin of our solar system. | Continue reading