If anyone can explain why Jupiter's Great Red Spot is spinning faster and shrinking, please speak up
Video Astronomers are still figuring out how the planet's storm continues to rage
28 Sep 2021 | 29
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Self-sailing Mayflower ship to have another crack at Atlantic crossing next year
Big Blue to return to the big blue waves
27 Sep 2021 | 15
Amazon delivery staff 'denied bonus' pay by AI cameras misjudging their driving
In brief Plus: Why trans gamers are turning to deepfake voices, and more bits and bytes
27 Sep 2021 | 25
For the nth time, China bans cryptocurrencies
Coin prices drop after People's Bank reiterates crackdown
24 Sep 2021 | 32
EurekAI... Neural network leads chemists to discover 'four new materials'
All said to conduct lithium atoms, may be useful for electric car batteries
24 Sep 2021 | 20
Unable to test every tourist and unable to turn them away, Greece used ML to pick visitors for COVID-19 checks
Inside the software built to figure out groups of potentially infected, asymptomatic passengers
23 Sep 2021 | 31
Zoom's $15bn merger with Five9 probed by Uncle Sam for national security risks
Vid-chat giant's ties to China under the microscope by AG-led panel
22 Sep 2021 | 7
Court of Appeal says AI software cannot be listed as patent inventor
'A patent is a statutory right and it can only be granted to a person'
22 Sep 2021 | 45
Now America's financial watchdog probes 'frat house' Activision Blizzard
Plus: Chief Legal Officer exits as court battles loom
21 Sep 2021 | 3
NASA hopes VIPER rover will search for water in Moon's Nobile crater in 2023
Video Machine could help unlock natural resources for future lunar base dwellers
21 Sep 2021 | 8
Twitter offers to cough up 80 days of annual sales to settle 'false' user count lawsuit
Web biz proposes $800m to disappear accusations of over-promising audience size to investors
20 Sep 2021 | 4
Forget that Loon's balloon burst, we just fired 700TB of laser broadband between two cities, says Alphabet
Up to 20Gbps link sustained over the Congo in comms experiment
17 Sep 2021 | 39
If it were possible to evade facial-recognition systems using just subtle makeup, it might look something like this
Interested in poking away at machine-learning models? This academic study could be a good start
16 Sep 2021 | 41
Ex-US intel, military trio were cyber-mercenaries for UAE, say prosecutors
Three men charged with breaking export, security laws, agree to deal after infiltrating smartphones with zero-click exploits
15 Sep 2021 | 22
Activision Blizzard accused of union busting, intimidating staff in complaint to watchdog
CWA, employees file lawsuit on same day HR head ejects
14 Sep 2021 | 15
NASA's Perseverance rover nabs two Martian rock samples for scientists on Earth to study one day
Too early to confirm ancient alien life, but a 'potentially habitable sustained environment,' though...
14 Sep 2021 | 11
Amazon abuses dominance to keep wholesaler prices high, says DC AG in updated antitrust complaint
Minimum Margin Agreement policy is anticompetitive, it is claimed
13 Sep 2021 | 6
Report: Microsoft and AWS scored $50m in contracts after Google pulled out of Pentagon's AI drone plan
In Brief Plus: Smart software ugrade means Roomba can recognise dog poo
13 Sep 2021 | 2
DoorDash, Grubhub, Uber Eats sue NYC for trying to permanently cap delivery fees
We'll just hike the prices for customers, otherwise. Happy now?
10 Sep 2021 | 78
'This is the new normal,' Microsoft tells US workers: Work from home until further notice
Plus: President Biden wants businesses with 100+ staff to get vaccinated or test weekly
09 Sep 2021 | 75
James Webb Space Telescope penciled in for launch this century. Yes, Dec 18, 2021
This thing better not explode on the pad
09 Sep 2021 | 31
LA cops told to harvest social media handles from people they stop, suspect or not
Policies revealed after long battle for transparency and accountability
09 Sep 2021 | 109
A developer built an AI chatbot using GPT-3 that helped a man speak again to his late fiancée. OpenAI shut it down
In-depth Crackdown on open-ended, unfiltered simulations branded 'a hyper-moral stance'
08 Sep 2021 | 81
Intel may spend up to €80bn on chip plants in Europe over next ten years
CEO also said it'll use its fab in Ireland to crank out parts for automakers amid shortages
08 Sep 2021 | 14
