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Hyundai takes 80 per cent stake in terrifying Black Mirror robo-hound firm Boston Dynamics

Korean giant sees bots as helping it become ‘Smart Mobility Solutions Provider’

22 Jun 04:57 | 5

Mayflower, the AI ship sent to sail from the UK to the US with no humans, made it three days before breaking down

Plus: Canon has cameras that only let employees into meeting rooms if they smile, and more

19 Jun 07:18 | 79

Chinese web giant Baidu unveils Level 4 robo-taxi that costs $75k to make

Plans to roll 1,000 of 'em off the production line in three years

18 Jun 05:58 | 11

FYI: There's a human-less, AI robot Mayflower ship sailing from the UK to US right now

Follow this Plymouth to Plymouth trip online

17 Jun 23:04 | 49

Facebook, academics think they've cracked spotting deepfakes by spotting how they're generated

99% accuracy in testing

17 Jun 11:29 | 19

Nvidia gobbles up mapping startup to help automakers install its self-driving platform

Plus: Biden sets up AI task force, and Waymo expands autonomous trucking operation with new partnership

14 Jun 15:33 | 2

If combining HPC and AI workloads is a challenge, wait until you try to converge flash and HDD storage

How to bust the bottlenecks without breaking the bank

McDonald's AI drive-thru bot accused of breaking biometrics privacy law

Would you like a lawsuit with that?

10 Jun 23:57 | 50

Google says its artificial intelligence is faster and better than humans at laying out chips for artificial intelligence

OK, we see where this is going

09 Jun 15:00 | 31

Hate to break it to you, but football's not coming home if this AI pundit is to be believed

Delayed Euro 2020 championship will be won by the Czech Republic, and England will drop out in semi-finals (sounds legit)

09 Jun 10:46 | 10

That AI scanning your X-ray for signs of COVID-19 may just be looking at your age

Plus: DARPA wants to spend $1m on AI research studying information warfare

07 Jun 04:06 | 7

This AI could save a firefighter's life

When it works well enough in the real world, that is

03 Jun 11:25 | 9

Check the TUPE: Facebook's hire of Bloomsbury AI founders wasn't 'traditional' acquisition - so sacked bod can't claim law was broken

So says the UK's Employment Tribunal in unfair dismissal case

01 Jun 10:45 | 10

US cities and towns purchase AI surveillance kit linked to China's Uyghur abuse

Plus: Ex-OpenAI employees launch machine-learning research org

31 May 18:02 | 11

Apple sued in nightmare case involving teen wrongly accused of shoplifting, driver's permit used by impostor, and unreliable facial-rec tech

Theft spree repeatedly blamed on wrong guy – lawsuit

29 May 00:52 | 96

Facial recog firm Clearview hit with complaints in France, Austria, Italy, Greece and the UK

Privacy groups claim images are stored 'indefinitely', even after deletion, in GDPR breach

27 May 10:46 | 52

Insurance startup backtracks on running videos of claimants through AI lie detector

'Our proprietary artificial intelligence algorithms may lead to unintentional bias and discrimination,' it told SEC

26 May 23:23 | 20

Microsoft puts OpenAI's GPT-3 that it spent all that money on to work in Power Fx

How low (code) can you go?

25 May 19:12 | 2

Amazon continues its ban on allowing police to use its facial-recognition software

Plus: DeepMind has been trying to gain more independence from Google, and how AI can help cosmologists

24 May 06:27 | 4

Twitter: Our AI image-cropping algorithm is biased toward White people, women

And that's why we've let humans take back control

19 May 23:26 | 12

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Hubble Space Telescope sails serenely on in safe mode after efforts to switch to backup memory modules fail

Have you tried turning it off and on again?

Windows 11: Meet the new OS, same as the old OS (or close enough)

From point release to pointless release

How hot is it right now? 'Water park catching fire and burning down' hot

It's a Jersey thing, you wouldn't understand

Updating in production, like a boss

The pain in Spain comes mainly from a lack of training

Register Debate

VMs were a fad fit for the Great Recession. Containers’ time has finally come

No more managing operating systems and monolithic apps? Where do I sign!

Toshiba engulfed by scandal again — and the prime minister is implicated

Company conspired with government to make life hard for activist foreign investors

South Korea’s nuclear research agency breached by North Korea-affiliated cyberattackers, says malware analyst group

Think tank says inconsistencies in story were not a cover-up — just a mistake from “working-level staff”

Tolerating failure: From happy accidents to serious screwups … Time to look at getting it wrong, er, correctly

Let’s talk procedures. Plus: Are you dealing with errors in a way that leaves room for people to own up to them?

Bork!Bork!Bork!

Emergency mode? Bah! It takes a Microsoft product to really break a digital sign

Memory is not the only thing leaking from Windows

'Lots of failed startups came out of Campus': Google axes London hub because startup scene 'doesn't need' another 7 floors of workspace

It needs 'resources, mentors, and programs ... at scale, anywhere'

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Yahoo! Japan! offers! free! comment!-moderation!-as!-a!-service! API!

'Constructive comment ranking model' can detect bias, promote respectful contributions, already zaps 20,000 posts a day

19 May 07:28 | 13

Kiss goodbye to privacy forever when brain-implanted comms gear becomes the norm – guru Whit Diffie

Top cryptographers open fire on AI, quantum computing, NFTs, and more

17 May 23:34 | 17

Waymo self-driving robotaxi goes rogue with passenger inside, escapes support staff

We speak to man who experienced and recorded wild ride first hand

17 May 20:51 | 65

This week in AI: Man arrested after cops say he rode in backseat of Autopilot Tesla

Plus: Non-profit ML groups snub sponsorship money from Google

16 May 03:17 | 28

Man paralyzed from neck down uses AI brain implants to write out text messages

13 May 10:47 | 15

Does AI have to disrupt everything you know about running a data center?

The optimal intelligent model could be disaggregation

Preliminary report on Texas Tesla crash finds Autosteer was 'not available' along road where both passengers died

Probable cause of accident and fire still under investigation

11 May 12:15 | 165

US postal service goes all in on AI

Plus: Google boffin who resigned over AI ethics controversy, joins Apple

10 May 18:15 | 6

Tesla Autopilot is a lot dumber than CEO Musk claims, says Cali DMV after speaking to the software's boss

'Elon's tweet does not match engineering reality' states poorly redacted report

07 May 23:41 | 127

Researchers say objects can hide from computer vision by seeking out unusual company that trips correlation bias

Algos guiding self-driving cars don’t expect to see a STOP sign next to food. So if someone put a pic showing apples at a busy intersection ...

07 May 08:01 | 54

Robo-taxis hit the streets of Beijing – albeit a small fleet in a geo-fenced suburb

Code for the Baidu Apollo brains of the service is yours for the taking on GitHub, too

06 May 00:50 | 9

Can your AI code be fooled by vandalized images or clever wording? Microsoft open sources a tool to test for that

Counterfit automatically creates adversarial inputs to find weaknesses

05 May 23:27 | 4

How to hide a backdoor in AI software – such as a bank app depositing checks or a security cam checking faces

Neural networks can be aimed to misbehave when squeezed

05 May 10:57 | 8

More than 1,000 humans fail to beat AI contender in top crossword battle

Plus: Deepfake satellite images and Google fails to cite relevant research in its own large language model paper

01 May 14:51 | 27

NYPD puts down $94k robot canine contract after outcry

Digidog will be returned to its Boston Dynamics owners

30 Apr 22:13 | 50

Palantir co-founder, CEO Alexander Karp gets $1.1bn bumper payday in IPO year

Sometimes the love of ICE and UK.gov is not enough

30 Apr 18:41 | 8

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