The Trevor Project shows how even the simplest AI can help save lives
At least one LGBTQ+ youth between the ages of 13 and 24 attempts suicide every 45 seconds. That’s no...
Here’s how developers can implement the Google Translate API in their apps
Even if most of us can’t travel as we once did, the world is a more accessible place, at least onlin...
Researchers lay the groundwork for an AI hive mind
Intel’s AI division is one of the unsung heroes of the modern machine-learning movement. It’s talent...
Google says it won’t build new AI solutions for the fossil fuel industry
File this under: minimal possible effort. Google today confirmed it will “no longer develop artifici...
Study: Perfect strangers can identify you using only 3 songs from your playlist
A group of researchers from Tel Aviv University recently discovered how shockingly easy it is to identif...
Google engineers quit after the company fired its star AI ethics researcher
Two Google engineers have quit the company over the firing of AI researcher Timnit Gebru, whose controver...
How on Earth is Elon Musk’s SpaceX facing bankruptcy?
The richest person in the world is worried about money. Elon Musk, whose net worth is estimated at $310...
Galleries are using AI to measure the ‘quality’ of art… SET ME AFLAME
AI has set its destructive sights on one of life’s greatest pleasures: visiting galleries.An Italian...
New AI headset analyzes astronauts’ brains to prep them for long-term space travel
A SpaceX Dragon rocket is due to take off this week with some unusual cargo on board: an EEG headset...
DuckDuckGo’s new Email Protection service sounds helpful but limited
DuckDuckGo has unveiled a new email forwarding service that strips trackers from your messages.To get...
Scientists may have discovered a way to make us forget bad memories
Researchers at Cambridge University have discovered a protein in the brain of mice that may act as a...
A beginner’s guide to the AI apocalypse: Killer robots
Welcome to the fifth article in TNW’s guide to the AI apocalypse. In this series we examine some of...
Mainstream adoption of facial recognition can have sinister consequences
On Dec. 14, the governments of British Columbia, Alberta, and Québec ordered facial recognition comp...
We invited an AI to debate its own ethics in the Oxford Union — what it said was startling
Not a day passes without a fascinating snippet on the ethical challenges created by “black box” arti...
These GPT-3 pick-up lines are better than the sleaze and cheese you sling on Tinder
The pandemic has been a tough time to be single. I can barely remember how to speak to my friends, let...
How AI could spot your weaknesses and influence your choices
Artificial intelligence is learning more about how to work with (and on) humans. A recent study has shown...
IBM achieves true ‘quantum supremacy’ with most powerful computer ever built
IBM might have just changed the computing game in a major way. Nobody’s seen a research paper yet, b...
How politicians manipulate the masses with simple AI
We’re three and a half years away from electing another president here in the US, but it’s never to...
Why we should be excited – and worried – about Neuralink’s brain-computer interface
Some weeks ago, a nine-year-old macaque monkey called Pager successfully played a game of Pong with its...
Twitter will reveal how its algorithmic biases cause ‘unintended harms’
Twitter has launched a new initiative called “Responsible ML” that will investigate the harms caused...