Self-driving cars can be forced to brake by hijacked billboards
Researchers demonstrate how “phantom objects” can fool autonomous vehicles and prompt particular actions.
This Camera App Is Designed to Fight Fake News
Chipmaker Qualcomm and startup Truepic are testing a feature for Android phones that automatically tags the time and location when an image was captured.
‘Machines set loose to slaughter’: the dangerous rise of military AI
The long read: Autonomous machines capable of deadly force are increasingly prevalent in modern warfare, despite numerous ethical concerns. Is there anything we can do to halt the advance of the killer robots?
Social credit, but for forums: Monash Malaysia's answer to managing misinformation
Meanwhile, Google doubles down on media industry 'help' with Journalist Studio.
Uncertainty quantification based cloud parameterization sensitivity analysis in the NCAR community atmosphere model
Artificial intelligence can be used to facilitate the 3D printing of functional materials and devices directly on target surfaces, such as human bodies. This Review surveys ex situ and in situ artificial-intelligence-assisted 3D printing of multifunctional materials and its combination with surgical robots to enable autonomous medical care and smart biomanufacturing.
Scientists develop 'mini-brains' to help robots recognize pain and to self-repair
Using a brain-inspired approach, scientists have developed a way for robots to have the artificial intelligence (AI) to recognize pain and to self-repair when damaged.
All-terrain microrobot flips through a live colon
A rectangular robot as tiny as a few human hairs can travel throughout a colon by doing back flips, engineers have demonstrated in live animal models.
Adobe rallies tech sector to launch Australian Skill Finder marketplace
Backed by Adobe, Atlassian, AWS, Canva, Google, IBM, LinkedIn, Microsoft, and Salesforce, Skill Finder is available to any Australian looking to upskill or reskill.
Access Now resigns from Partnership on AI due to lack of change among tech companies
After a year with the Partnership on AI, Access Now resigned from the 100+ member organization, citing a lack of change by corporate tech companies.
Apple’s huge 5G and Siri bets risk user satisfaction and legal issues
Apple's latest event raised questions about whether the Siri digital assistant or relatively new 5G technology are ready to deliver on years of promises.
Google’s breast cancer-predicting AI research is useless without transparency, critics say
The coauthors of a commentary in Nature argue that a Google Health model that predicts breast cancer doesn't meet baseline transparency requirements.
WFH has left workers feeling abandoned. So they're making their own plans for the future instead
A new report from HP predicts the rise of a workforce with different expectations that companies will have to live up to.
Microsoft explains how it improved automatic image captioning in Azure Cognitive Services
Microsoft says it developed a new AI and machine learning technique that vastly improves the accuracy of automatic image captions.
Atlassian details AI features headed to Jira, Confluence, and Bitbucket
Atlassian detailed new predictive features headed to products across its portfolio, including Jira, Confluence, and Bitbucket.
Google Cloud promises it won’t pry into customer data
Google Cloud's Andrew Moore today pledged not to review data enterprise customers share and introduced a personal information redaction tool.
Dataloop raises $16 million for data annotation tools
Dataloop, a startup developing data annotation tools for AI and machine learning tasks, has raised $16 million across two funding rounds.
Infiot emerges from stealth with $15 million to manage edge devices using AI
Infiot has raised $15 million to develop its platform that leverages AI to help companies manage edge and internet of things devices.
Facebook and Carnegie Mellon launch project to discover better ways to store renewable energy
Facebook and Carnegie Mellon University will use AI to search for electrocatalysts to enable scalable renewable energy storage.