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Prisons transcribe private phone calls with inmates using speech-to-text AI

Plus: A drug designed by machine learning algorithms to treat liver disease reaches human clinical trials and more

04 Dec 15:48 | 29

Last chance: Get hands-on ML experience in Prof Mark Whitehorn’s introductory web workshop

December 3 is the final day to buy tickets – book now or miss out

UK privacy watchdog may fine selfie-hoarding Clearview AI £17m... eventually, perhaps

Regulator's 'assertions are factually and legally incorrect' biz tells El Reg

30 Nov 08:26 | 20

Looking to get complex machine learning models into production? Serverless might be the answer

Oh-em-gee, it's only another free web lecture from our MCubed team

Warning: China planning to swipe a bunch of data soon, so quantum computers can decrypt it later

Meanwhile, the Middle Kingdom’s military plans an AI offensive – in the labs and on the field of combat

29 Nov 06:31 | 73

Robotaxis freed to charge across 60km² of Beijing

Baidu's Apollo tech exits testing phase, so punters must now pay the machine for a ride. Would you?

25 Nov 07:56 | 50

UK data guardian challenges government proposals on automated decision-making

Plans to change UK regulations could mean a 'significant departure' from EU law, watchdog says

23 Nov 13:33 | 34

Machine learning can improve your public services. Are you ready to take the red pill?

This briefing takes you through the matrix and steers you past the dark side

AI surveillance software increasingly used to make sure contract lawyers are doing their jobs at home

Plus: GPT-3 is now generally available and one man goes undercover in Amazon to live under AI

20 Nov 11:01 | 22

Robo-Shinkansen rolls slowly – for now – across 5km of Japan

Railway wants self-driving bullet trains overseen by staff that aren't trained as drivers

19 Nov 04:54 | 82

MCubed does web workshops: Join Mark Whitehorn’s one-day introduction to machine learning next month

Tired of reading about AI? Why not give it a go yourself!

There just aren’t enough doctors. So, can we rely on smarter healthcare technology?

Can’t read your GP’s notes? Don’t worry, the AI can

UK aims for 'openness and fairness' in its AI Strategy – unless we're talking about favoured contractors

Or the government itself, of course

11 Nov 09:30 | 12

Nvidia open to third parties making custom silicon tuned for CUDA applications

Who's going to be the first to bite? Hint, you may need to be the size of Facebook or Google

10 Nov 23:37 | 3

Turns out there is something everyone may agree on in Congress: Let netizens use mostly algorithm-lite apps

Dems, Repubs in House, Senate unite for Filter Bubble Transparency Act

10 Nov 02:51 | 13

Nvidia anoints itself a creator of the metaverse

09 Nov 09:30 | 15

Truck, sweet truck: Volvo's Chinese owner unveils methanol/electric truck with bathroom and kitchen

'Homtruck' also packs a tea maker, washing machine, the feel of a bamboo forest – and a roadmap to autonomous ops

09 Nov 05:56 | 61

Why machine-learning chatbots find it difficult to respond to idioms, metaphors, rhetorical questions, sarcasm

'Understanding the meaning of such expressions relies on shared cultural and commonsense cues' ... which machines lack, new study details

08 Nov 22:40 | 95

Alphabet launches new AI drug discovery startup, Isomorphic Labs, led by DeepMind CEO

Plus: Waymo's self-driving cars are mapping the mean streets of NYC

08 Nov 11:43 | 1

AI algorithms can help erase bright streaks of internet satellites – but they cannot save astronomy

'We are absolutely losing some science'

06 Nov 09:15 | 117

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Leaked footage shows British F-35B falling off HMS Queen Elizabeth and pilot's death-defying ejection

Parachute snagged on ship's bows

It's 2021 and someone's written a new Windows 3.x mouse driver. Why now?

For those of you who virtualise Microsoft’s finest and struggle with the pointer, this developer has an answer

Why your external monitor looks awful on Arm-based Macs, the open source fix – and the guy who wrote it

Q&A with the developer of BetterDummy: from macOS secrets to his motivations

You loved running JavaScript in your web browser. Now, get ready for Python scripting

All thanks to CPython, WebAssembly, and some clever developers (And yes, there's Pyodide, too)

NixOS and the changing face of Linux operating systems

As with packaging systems, lightweight efficient approaches look set to lose out

When civilisation ends, a Xenix box will be running a long-forgotten job somewhere

'Keep it running a few weeks.' Fast-forward 5 years. 'Why'd it break, man!?'

Warning: China planning to swipe a bunch of data soon, so quantum computers can decrypt it later

Meanwhile, the Middle Kingdom’s military plans an AI offensive – in the labs and on the field of combat

Australia will force social networks to identify trolls, so they can be sued for defamation

At the same time, will overrule court decision that traditional publishers are liable for comments on social media

Feds charge two men with claiming ownership of others' songs to steal YouTube royalty payments

Alleged scheme said to have netted $20m since 2017

You've seen the Raspberry Pi CM4 in a mini-ITX case. Now here's four in a mini-ITX case

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What will the factory of the future look like? Let's start with Intel, Red Hat, and 5G

Machine-to-machine communications, AI, DevOps tech all coming together

03 Nov 08:27 | 13

Joint UK-Oz probe finds face-recognition upstart Clearview AI is rubbish at privacy

Brit watchdog considering next steps, Australia's orders deletion of scraped image trove

03 Nov 07:44 | 14

If you're deemed cool enough, Microsoft will offer you access to Azure-based GPT-3

Text'n'code-emitting system still available from OpenAI

03 Nov 00:49 | 2

Facebook ditches its creepy, controversial robot – yes, its facial-recognition AI

Social network is going to sit this one out until clear rules are formulated

02 Nov 21:47 | 14

Linux Foundation backs Project OpenBytes: An attempt to slash legal risk of sharing data for training AI

Common format and license floated to foster greater exchange of info for ML

02 Nov 18:49 | 6

Find out how to build trust in your AI apps from our MCubed web lecture this week

Think explainability and accuracy are mutually exclusive? Think again!

Twitter's algos favour tweets from conservatives over liberals because they generate more outrage online – study

Plus: Microsoft acquires an AI content moderation startup to prevent hate speech on the Xbox and more

30 Oct 11:05 | 52

AI stuck in 'just experimenting' mode? Learn how to open the data bottleneck here

We'll help you get ML into production and kick-start disruption

When AI and automation come to work you stress less – but hate your job more

It's better to work for the Man than the Machine

29 Oct 04:59 | 4

Chinese server builder Inspur trains monster text-generating neural network

Yuan 1.0 said to pass Turing test, and require many fewer GPUs than the GPT-3 Microsoft licensed from OpenAI

28 Oct 09:40 | 43

Big Blue scoffs a Happy Meal: McDonald's sells automated order-taking tech to IBM

Would you like AI with that?

27 Oct 22:46 | 32

UK schools slap a hold on facial scanning of children amid fierce criticism

'Consent cannot be truly freely given' says privacy campaigner

26 Oct 13:45 | 68

Intel hopes to burn newly open-sourced AI debug tech into chips

Chipzilla dreams of planting ControlFlag in hardware

25 Oct 14:45 | 8

Twitter's machine learning algorithms amplify tweets from right-wing politicians over those on the left

Engineers and researchers don't know why

25 Oct 11:02 | 65

Japanese bloke collared after using AI software to uncensor smut and flogging it

Plus: Explore the limits of language models in bizarre research experiment, and more

23 Oct 03:30 | 47

AI isn’t just about disruption. Integration is essential, too

Learn how to take the broad view by tuning into this webcast early next month

Arm teases its GPU that will follow next year's graphics processor tech

Pushing for a 5x performance boost albeit over a 2018 cousin

21 Oct 06:27 | 7

Give us your biometric data to get your lunch in 5 seconds, UK schools tell children

Facial recognition for meal payment system works for kids, supplier says

18 Oct 12:15 | 127

Bank manager tricked into handing $35m to scammers using fake 'deep voice' tech

Plus: Microsoft Translator machine learning software now supports over 100 languages

16 Oct 11:01 | 26

Former Intel AI boss Naveen Rao is now counting the cost of machine learning, literally

MosaicMLdelving into the details

14 Oct 00:40 | 1

Megachips or decoupled approach? AI chip design companies accounting for operating costs

Chip crunch pulls focus

12 Oct 18:10 | 1

Astroboffins reckon they've detected four hidden exoplanets by probing distant radio waves

It could help us find more exoplanets far out in the universe

12 Oct 01:30 | 10

Behold the Megatron: Microsoft and Nvidia build massive language processor

MT-NLG is a beast that fed on over 4,000 GPUs

12 Oct 00:36 | 23

Clearview CEO doubles down, claims biz has now scraped over ten billion social media selfies for surveillance

Plus: DeepMind makes its first profit... by selling to its stablemates

09 Oct 18:08 | 25

How not to train your Dragon: What happens when you teach an AI game sex-abuse stories then blame players

Next chapter in AI Dungeon saga: Banning gamers for what the bot said

08 Oct 00:04 | 96

Euro Parliament backs ban on cops using blanket facial-recognition surveillance

Majority of MEPs want end to police face-ID'ing anyone and everyone in public, and more

07 Oct 06:22 | 19

Open Sesame, says Google... to voice identification: Speech ID adds biometric security to call-centre bots

Eleven. Eleh-ven. Ala-vuhn*. Oh never mind

06 Oct 18:21 | 15

Join our MCubed web lecture this week to find out how to get machine learning into production

Learn more about the operational side of AI on October 7 at 11am BST

User to chatbot: Help! My kid has COVID! Chatbot to user: Always wear a condom

Singapore pulls plug on 'Ask Jamie' after it also suggested polio jabs and other 'misaligned replies'

06 Oct 05:00 | 34

Waymo, Cruise get green light from California's DMV for self-driving taxi services

Plus: Experts dubious of Apple's AI algorithm being able to detect depression and anxiety

03 Oct 23:33 | 21

University, Nvidia team teaches robots to get a grip with OpenAI's CLIP

Gone are the days where you have to show a machine a gazillion images in different poses and lighting conditions

01 Oct 14:32 | 2

Intel offers Loihi 2 to boffins: A 7nm chip with more than 1m programmable neurons

Before you call it dumb, take a look at its biological counterparts on this planet

01 Oct 02:28 | 10

EU and US seek 'common principles' for data governance and AI

Technology, security, competitiveness also on agenda. *Cough* Privacy Shield *cough*

30 Sep 16:57 | 11

If it's going to rain within the next 90 mins, this very British AI system can warn you

Met Office, DeepMind, uni team hope their work will make a splash

30 Sep 06:35 | 58

US drug watchdog green-lights first prostate-cancer-predicting AI software

Computer vision tool mildly helps doctors identify potentially cancerous cells

30 Sep 01:43 | 5

Seeing as everyone loves cloud subscriptions, get ready for car-as-a-service future

Chip titans driving shift to paid-for over-the-air feature upgrades

29 Sep 00:46 | 39

Amazon's AI chips find their way into Astro butler bot, latest wall-hanging display

$1,500 gets you a robo-dog that can't handle stairs ... so here's a flying camera, too

28 Sep 21:10 | 11

Self-sailing Mayflower ship to have another crack at Atlantic crossing next year

Big Blue to return to the big blue waves

27 Sep 22:14 | 16

Amazon delivery staff 'denied bonus' pay by AI cameras misjudging their driving

Plus: Why trans gamers are turning to deepfake voices, and more bits and bytes

27 Sep 19:06 | 39

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 17:36 | 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 06:26 | 33

Britain publishes 10-year National Artificial Intelligence Strategy

Aw, look. It wants to be a 'global science superpower'

22 Sep 21:18 | 18

Nvidia cosies up to Open Robotics for hardware-accelerated ROS

Hopes to tempt roboticists over to its Jetson platform with new simulation features, drop-in acceleration code

22 Sep 17:13 | 2

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 06:35 | 45

UK's Surveillance Commissioner warns of 'ethically fraught' facial recognition tech concerns

How about being an anonymous face in a crowd? Is that not allowed anymore?

21 Sep 13:45 | 12

Royal Navy will be getting autonomous machines – for donkey work humans can't be bothered with

No robot killers 'in my lifetime' says admiral

17 Sep 05:47 | 33

Businesses put robots to work when human workers are hard to find, argue econo-boffins

The lure of shiny new tech isn't a motivator, although in the USA bots are used to cut costs

17 Sep 03:55 | 15

It's bizarre we're at a point where reports are written on how human rights trump AI rights

But that's what UN group has done

16 Sep 21:40 | 13

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 13:47 | 41

US Air Force puts Godzilla in charge of autonomous warfare effort with Project Kaiju

Pulls Mothra, Mecha Rodan, King Ghidorah, Kumonga, and even King Kong along for the $150m ride

14 Sep 16:01 | 15

Report: Microsoft and AWS scored $50m in contracts after Google pulled out of Pentagon's AI drone plan

Plus: Smart software ugrade means Roomba can recognise dog poo

13 Sep 12:17 | 2

AI caramba, those neural networks are power-hungry: Counting the environmental cost of artificial intelligence

(And, also worryingly, its increasing financial cost)

13 Sep 10:03 | 64

Ghosts in the machine learning pipeline will be impossible to exorcise

Who wants to live forever? It could be the offer you can't refuse

13 Sep 08:30 | 38

Right to contest automated AI decision under review as part of UK government data protection consultation

Right not to be subjected to solely automated decisions might not be keeping pace with 'data-driven economy' says document

10 Sep 14:35 | 36

Intel's Mobileye unveils first 'production-grade fully electric self-driving vehicle,' partners with Sixt for Munich launch

Quietly adds that it hasn't yet received regulatory approval

08 Sep 12:59 | 21

A developer built an AI chatbot using GPT-3 that helped a man speak again to his late fiancée. OpenAI shut it down

Crackdown on open-ended, unfiltered simulations branded 'a hyper-moral stance'

08 Sep 10:43 | 81

Academics tell UK lords that folk aren't keen on predictive policing, facial recognition, heightened surveillance

Philip K Dick is rolling in his grave

07 Sep 15:20 | 21

China blurs borders with Macau to advance chipmaking and AI plans

Special administrative region to share economic zone located on Chinese soil

Facebook apologises after its AI system branded Black people as primates

Plus: Google Health app for NHS hospitals discontinued, and Tesla under the spotlight

06 Sep 12:02 | 40

Only 'natural persons' can be recognized as patent inventors, not AI systems, US judge rules

This isn't over says man pushing for neural networks' rights

04 Sep 10:28 | 93

Banned: The 1,170 words you can't use with GitHub Copilot

Hash cracking reveals verboten slurs, terms like 'liberals, 'Palestine,' and 'socialist' ... and Quake's famous Fast InvSqrt

02 Sep 22:01 | 94

Hyundai reveals the robotaxi it built for Lyft, and a version for its very own metaverse

Hey kids? Wanna play with the future of electro-robotic transport? You get to do it two years before Lyft

01 Sep 08:11 | 6

Toyota resumes autonomous Paralympics buses after vehicle hit judo competitor, forced him out of match

More human guides recruited, trained to keep eyes on machines, athletes

30 Aug 23:27 | 18

Adding AI to everything won't make sense until we can use it for anything

You've gotta have standards

30 Aug 09:36 | 68

Leaked: List of police, govt, uni orgs in Clearview AI's facial-recognition trials

Plus: Mortgage algorithm bias, and an AI-guided play comes to London

29 Aug 09:48 | 17

Ready, set ... ML! Just one day to go to our first Mcubed web lecture on practical AI

Tune in on Sept 2 to find out more about Benford’s distribution

Machine learning data pipeline outfit Splice Machine files for insolvency

26 Aug 17:37 | 3

America's Argonne lab buys AI super from HPE, AMD, Nvidia while waiting for Intel

44-PFLOPS Polaris 'testbed' ordered ahead of Chipzilla-powered Aurora

26 Aug 01:45 | 2

Cops responding to ShotSpotter's AI alerts rarely find evidence of gun crime, says Chicago watchdog

It may hurt community policing, too

25 Aug 22:38 | 55

GitHub's Copilot may steer you into dangerous waters about 40% of the time – study

Unless you like shipping buggy or vulnerable code, keep your hands on the wheel

25 Aug 12:06 | 33

Samsung testing memory with built-in processing for AI-centric servers

Suggests standard for this stuff should land in 2022 and tech improves performance by 40 per cent or more

25 Aug 09:14 | 6

Robots don't smoke, says Alibaba, and that's why they deliver parcels so fast

Rolling out test fleet of 1000 in low-traffic locations across China

24 Aug 03:04 | 38

We spoke to a Stanford prof on the tech and social impact of AI's powerful, emerging 'foundation models'

From single points of failure to training and policies, Percy Liang covers a wide range of topics in this Q&A

23 Aug 10:25 | 10

A man spent a year in jail on a murder charge that hinged on disputed AI evidence. Now the case has been dropped

Plus: Intel winds down RealSense, and more

22 Aug 03:30 | 126

Using 'AI-based software like Proctorio and ProctorU' to monitor online exams is a really bad idea, says uni panel

Academics find algorithmic surveillance just isn't worth it

20 Aug 23:30 | 44

Tesla promises to build robot you could beat up – or beat in a race

May have unbeatable powers of distraction as automaker talks up its coming-soon-now AI supercomputer and glosses over product delays

20 Aug 08:04 | 74

Apple's bright idea for CSAM scanning could start 'persecution on a global basis' – 90+ civil rights groups

Letter to Cook & Co warns image-probing tech could also harm kids

19 Aug 19:22 | 109

Baidu unveils AI chip to go in its fancy-pants robocar – and anywhere else someone may want to use it

Second-gen silicon to be more accessible for devs and applications

19 Aug 09:37 | 3

Senators urge US trade watchdog to look into whether Tesla may just be over-egging its Autopilot, FSD pudding

The day before Elon's big party, too

19 Aug 00:33 | 71

Apple didn't engage with the infosec world on CSAM scanning – so get used to a slow drip feed of revelations

Starting with: Neural net already found in iOS, hash collisions, and more

18 Aug 21:52 | 95

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