Apple said it is buying the Intel unit that makes smartphone modems. The deal allows the…
Author: Tom Simonite
Using AI and Film to Track Tear Gas Use Against Civilians
Oscar-winning filmmaker Laura Poitras teamed up with a London nonprofit developing machine-learning tools to identify lethal…
The Best Algorithms Still Struggle to Recognize Black Faces
US government tests find even top-performing ****** recognition systems misidentify blacks at rates 5 to 10…
This New Poker Bot Can Beat Multiple Pros—at Once
Software designed by a Carnegie Mellon professor and Facebook researcher beat five human pros in no-limit…
Who’s Listening When You Talk to Your Google Assistant?
A Belgian broadcaster obtained recordings of more than 1,000 conversations with Google's automated assistant, some including…
Intel’s New Chip Wizard Has a Plan to Bring Back the Magic
Jim Keller, who joined Intel last year after stints at AMD, Apple, and Tesla, says Moore's…
Taser Maker Says It Won’t Use ****** Recognition in Bodycams
Axon, the maker of Tasers and police bodycams, said it won't deploy ****** recognition systems, after…
Artificial Intelligence Is Coming for Our Faces
Trained for a week on a massive data set of portraits, a neural network spits out…
How ****** Recognition Is Fighting Child *** Trafficking
A nonprofit called Thorn is using Amazon Rekognition to scan online ads for underage ***-trafficking victims.
How Amazon Cloned a Neighborhood to Test Its Delivery Robots
Amazon used cameras, lidar, and aerial photography to build a highly detailed digital map of a…