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WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Artificial intelligence has a problem with nuance but that didn’t stop it from correctly predicting the outcome of most of…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The US Navy launches drone swarms to give its adversaries a new headache to deal with. Following on from…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Virtual reality holidays come to the high street. Virtual reality content is being trialled for the first time by…
In Pittsburg even the traffic lights are intelligent Idling in rushhour traffic can be mind-numbing. It also carries other costs. Traffic congestion costs the US…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The Human Cell Atlas will exponentially accelerate our understanding of disease and “the Human Condition.” Last week in at a…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Artificial intelligence can do great good, or great evil Speaking at the launch of the Leverhulme Centre for the…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Google takes tracking and identifying individuals to a whole new level. Whether it is online, or offline, your privacy is…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF After almost forty years of research speech recognition systems are now as good as humans. Microsoft have announced that they have…
Synthetic biology opens the door for custom designed humans whose only parents are a computer Scientists can already produce viable artificial human eggs and sperm but…
It’s arrived Elon Musk and Tesla have been dropping hints about their fully autonomous self-driving cars for some time now, and yesterday they made an…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Cyber attacks are on the rise but there’s one code no hackers have been able to crack. An autonomous helicopter gunship…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Street police in the UAE are going to be replaced with real life, ahem, “Robocops” Dubai’s government – who are…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Berkeley Lab breakthrough might help to reboot Moores Law. Transistor size is an important part of improving the price-performance of…
Apples latest announcements on its plans for AI are, well, boring Pixar founder George Lucas might have given the world the word “Droid” before he…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF A new development in material science opens the door for the development of more advanced Smart Clothing. Many of…
Discovery paves the way for new breakthroughs in materials, molecular science, semiconductors and much more A team of scientists from Complutense University have managed to bypass…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The UN is backing a blockchain consortium to help them give a voice, and recognition, to over 2 billion people….
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The security industry faces a paradigm shift as the US Government moves to predict cyber attacks before they happen. …
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Memory fills the gaps in information that even todays best AI algorithms can’t. Google’s DeepMind artificial intelligence lab does more than…
Researchers have discovered a link between a protein and aging A protein found within the powerhouse of a cell could be the key to holding back…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Invisible, smart, deadly and loaded with AI – the new autonomous-capable USS Zumwalt. The look of the new 600…
As humanity nears its goals of becoming an interplanetary species it’s inevitable one day that a new nation will take form In the wake of…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF US Government report lays out guidance for AI use and regulation and puts regulating super AI’s in the too hard…
In a world first scientists have helped a paralyzed man experience the sense of touch in his mind-controlled robotic arm The cutting edge experiment, a collaboration…
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