Could robots make us better humans?
By: John Harris March 5, 2019 As Marcus du Sautoy greets me at the entrance to New College, Oxford, his appearance is a quiet riot of colour. His clothes rather suggest someone who ran into White Stuff or Fat Face and frantically grabbed anything he could find – in this case, a salmon zip-up top, […]
Are you being scanned? How facial recognition technology follows you, even as you shop
By: Eden Gillespie February 24, 2019 As digital billboards record customers’ reactions to advertisements tailored to them, just who is safeguarding Australians’ privacy? According to experts, FRT is now more accurate than humans at identifying faces. Photograph: Jochen Tack/Alamy If you shop at Westfield, you’ve probably been scanned and recorded by dozens of hidden cameras […]
How AI Will Go Out Of Control According To 52 Experts
By: CBINSIGHTS February 19, 2019 ‘Summoning the demon.’ ‘The new tools of our oppression.’ ‘Children playing with a bomb.’ These are just a few ways the world’s top researchers and industry leaders have described the threat that artificial intelligence poses to mankind. Will AI enhance our lives or completely upend them? There’s no way around […]
Virtual fences, robot workers, stacked crops: farming in 2040
By: Jamie Doward February 17, 2019 It is 2040 and Britain’s green and pleasant countryside is populated by robots. We have vertical farms of leafy salads, fruit and vegetables, and livestock is protected by virtual fencing. Changing diets have seen a decline in meat consumption while new biotech production techniques not only help preserve crops […]
Expert: AR Will Let Hackers Steal “Deep Psychological Data”
By: Foster Kamer February 11, 2019 Thought Theft If augmented reality becomes a part of our daily lives, the data it collects about you will become valuable: an incredibly detailed psychological portrait, and one that’s prone to terrifying exploitation if it falls into the wrong hands. “You are always worried about bad actors with technology […]
The real reason America is scared of Huawei: internet-connected everything
Read Full Article By: Will Knight Feb 08, 2019 There was a time when the world’s two great superpowers were obsessed with nuclear weapons technology. Today the flashpoint is between the US and China, and it involves the wireless technology that promises to connect your toaster to the web. The two countries are embroiled in […]
US Army soldiers will soon be armed with these game-changing drones that fit in the palm of your hand
By: Business Insider February 22, 2019 Pocket-sized drones are on their way to US Army soldiers, offering a better view of the battlefield and giving them a lethal edge over enemies. The Army has awarded FLIR Systems a $39.6 million contract to provide Black Hornet Personal Reconnaissance Drones, next-level technology which could be a total […]
Inside the UAE’s secret hacking team of American mercenaries
By: Christopher Bing + Joel Schectman Jaunuary30, 2019 Two weeks after leaving her position as an intelligence analyst for the U.S. National Security Agency in 2014, Lori Stroud was in the Middle East working as a hacker for an Arab monarchy. She had joined Project Raven, a clandestine team that included more than a dozen […]
MIT researchers are training a robot arm to play Jenga
By: Brian Heater January 30, 2019 Turns out training a robotic arm to play Jenga is a surprisingly complex task. There are, so to speak, a lot of moving parts. Researchers at MIT are putting a modified ABB IRB 120 to work with the familiar tabletop game, utilizing a soft gripper, force-sensing wrist joint and […]