With Alphabet's legendary commitment to products, we can't wait to see what its robotics biz Intrinsic achieves
Google parent hopes to inject AI into factory machines
23 Jul 2021 |
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We've seen things you people wouldn't believe. An exoplanet building its own moons
Pic 400 light-years away, satellites are forming
23 Jul 2021 | 15
Alan Turing Institute to spend £60m from UK.gov on AI for air traffic control and banking
Turns out the skies can be the limit for machine learning
23 Jul 2021 | 15
Europe mulls anonymous crypto-wallet ban, rules to make transfers more traceable
Won't someone please think of the ch, er, money laundering
22 Jul 2021 | 67
Troll jailed for 5 years after swatting of Twitter handle owner ends in death
Creator of QWK format suffered fatal heart attack as cops surrounded home
22 Jul 2021 | 93
Mountains on neutron stars are not even a millimetre tall due to extreme gravity
According to simulations, anyway
21 Jul 2021 | 43
Apple delays recalling staff to offices until October as Delta variant romps across US
Twitter, Salesforce, Google, Microsoft have reopened, kind of
20 Jul 2021 | 48
Not only is Hubble back online after outage, it's already taking photos of the cosmos
Pics After hundreds of hours of work, engineers called out of retirement for help
20 Jul 2021 | 52
GlobalFoundries to build second chip fab next to NY HQ
And increase output of Fab 8 plant by 150,000 wafers per year
19 Jul 2021 | 2
OpenAI shuts down robotics team because it doesn't have enough data yet
In brief Plus: People creeped out that TV chef Bourdain's voice has been faked
18 Jul 2021 | 10
NASA fixes Hubble Space Telescope using backup power supply unit, payload computer
Hardware gremlins plagued orbiting observatory for over a month
16 Jul 2021 | 111
Teen turned away from roller rink after AI wrongly identifies her as banned troublemaker
Software claimed it was 97% sure
16 Jul 2021 | 128
Buyer of $28m Blue Origin space ticket has a scheduling conflict – so this teen will go instead
Bezos and his bro on rocket jaunt
16 Jul 2021 | 54
United, Mesa airlines order 200 electric 19-seater planes for short-hop flights
Sorry, how much do you charge?!
15 Jul 2021 | 139
BT to phase out 3G in UK by 2023 for EE, Plusnet, BT Mobile subscribers
Cos 4G and 5G will be all hunky-dory by then, yeah?
15 Jul 2021 | 84
Google fined €500m for not paying French publishers after using their words on web
If the Chocolate Factory doesn't play ball soon it'll be an extra €1m a day
14 Jul 2021 | 39
FCC finalizes $1.9bn compo deal for telcos forced to rip'n'replace Huawei, ZTE gear
'An unrealistic attempt to fix what isn’t broken', Big H mutters
14 Jul 2021 | 2
Amazon will know when its business, privacy practices keep you up at night – it has an FCC-approved sleep radar
Every breath you take, every move you make ...
13 Jul 2021 | 15
As Europe hopes to double its share of global chip production, Intel comes along with $20bn, plans for fabs
France, Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands ... but not Brexit Britain?
12 Jul 2021 | 52
Uncle Sam sanctions Chinese AI outfits for links to Xinjiang Uyghur human-rights abuses
In Brief Plus: A tool that automatically shames politicians distracted by their phones during official business
10 Jul 2021 | 24
The human-devoid AI-powered Saildrone Surveyor ship just made it to Hawaii from SF
28 days at sea alone with nothing to look at but the waves and ocean floor
09 Jul 2021 | 35
Smuggler caught with 256 Intel Core processors wrapped around him in cling film
As GPU prices crash after crypto-mines shut down in China, we're told
09 Jul 2021 | 46
If you've mastered Python 101, you're probably better at programming than OpenAI's prototype Codex
10 PRINT "ML won't take my job ";: GOTO 10
09 Jul 2021 | 21
YouTube's recommendation engine is pretty naff, Mozilla study finds
It even pushes videos that break the site's own content policies
08 Jul 2021 | 51
