COVID-19 digital certificate now fully available on Service NSW app
The statewide rollout of the Service NSW app's integration of a COVID-19 digital certificate comes after a short trial earlier this week in certain regional areas in the state.
More than 30 countries outline efforts to stop ransomware after White House virtual summit
The countries said ransomware is an "escalating global security threat with serious economic and security consequences."
Facebook helps AI take a first-person view of life
It hopes artificial intelligence may one day tell you where on earth you've put your keys.
U.S. Army postpones its $22 billion Microsoft augmented-reality headset deliverables to late 2022
The deal for Microsoft to supply the U.S. Army with headsets based on technology in the HoloLens is still on, even though the Army has pushed back its timeline for testing and deployment.
World's first massive egocentric dataset
The University of Bristol is part of an international consortium of 13 universities in partnership with Facebook AI, that collaborated to advance egocentric perception. As a result of this initiative, we have built the world's largest egocentric dataset using off-the-shelf, head-mounted cameras.
How Netflix affects what we watch and who we are -- and it's not just the algorithm
Streaming platforms have introduced to thousands of hyper-specific categories and genres that shape our tastes.
A new model to enable multi-object tracking in unmanned aerial systems
To efficiently navigate their surrounding environments and complete missions, unmanned aerial systems (UASs) should be able to detect multiple objects in their surroundings and track their movements over time. So far, however, enabling multi-object tracking in unmanned aerial vehicles has proved to be fairly challenging.
Mozilla artists question whether AI could predict police killings
Future Wake is a new art piece that uses AI trained on real law enforcement data to predict future fictional police killings.
Even computer experts think ending human oversight of AI is a very bad idea
The UK government is thinking of scrapping the right to ask for a human to review decisions made entirely by AI systems, but some experts are warning that it is not the right way to go.
AI agent can learn the cause-and-effect basis of a navigation task during training
Neural networks can learn to solve all sorts of problems, from identifying cats in photographs to steering a self-driving car. But whether these powerful, pattern-recognizing algorithms actually understand the tasks they are performing remains an open question.
Back pain reducing exoskeleton for e-commerce workers
The exoskeleton market might just hit its stride in e-commerce fulfillment.
BenevolentAI’s drug discovery platform identifies novel target for ulcerative colitis
London-based AI pioneer BenevolentAI has identified a novel target for ulcerative colitis through its drug discovery platform.
Exponential, book review: Technology acceleration and its impact on society
An "exponential gap" is opening up between our understanding of our world, which updates slowly, and new technologies, which change faster than we can cope with, argues Azeem Azhar.
AI’s Smarts Now Come With a Big Price Tag
As language models get more complex, they also get more expensive to create and run. Some companies are locked out.
Singapore to develop mobile defence systems with Ghost Robotics
Defence Science and Technology Agency says it has inked a partnership agreement with Philadelphia-based Ghost Robotics to test and develop technologies as well as use cases for legged robots for security, defence, and humanitarian applications.
The Hidden Second Face of Deepfakes
A lot of times when you read about deepfakes (more professionally known as synthetic media) the common themes being explored is only one of the two faces of deepfakes the negative side, however, I want to explore some of the positive things deepfakes
The Hidden Second Face of Deepfakes
A lot of times when you read about deepfakes (more professionally known as synthetic media) the common themes being explored is only one of the two faces of deepfakes the negative side, however, I want to explore some of the positive things deepfakes
Marketers want to influence your dreams, consumers not so much
Seventy-seven percent of marketers want to play ads right before people sleep to influence dreams and 39% of consumers are into the idea.