This AI crunched the numbers to make the perfect TikTok song — but is it though?

This AI crunched the numbers to make the perfect TikTok song — but is it though?

TikTok may be on the verge of a US ban , but the app‘s content creators are still bravely pursuing t...

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Scientists say Jupiter was responsible for the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs

Scientists say Jupiter was responsible for the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs

One of the galaxy‘s oldest whodunits may have finally been solved thanks to some simulation-powered...

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BCIs had a big year in the lab. In 2022, they’re coming to the market

BCIs had a big year in the lab. In 2022, they’re coming to the market

Brain-computer interfaces are slowly edging into the mainstream. After a string of scientific breakthrou...

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Shhhh, they’re listening – inside the coming voice-profiling revolution

Shhhh, they’re listening – inside the coming voice-profiling revolution

You decide to call a store that sells some hiking boots you’re thinking of buying. As you dial in, t...

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Mozilla needs your help to expose YouTube’s recommendation algorithm

Mozilla needs your help to expose YouTube’s recommendation algorithm

YouTube‘s recommendation algorithm drives more than 70% of the videos we watch on the site. But its...

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The Trevor Project shows how even the simplest AI can help save lives

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...

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Here’s how developers can implement the Google Translate API in their apps

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...

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Researchers lay the groundwork for an AI hive mind

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...

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Google says it won’t build new AI solutions for the fossil fuel industry

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...

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Study: Perfect strangers can identify you using only 3 songs from your playlist

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...

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Google engineers quit after the company fired its star AI ethics researcher

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...

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How on Earth is Elon Musk’s SpaceX facing bankruptcy?

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...

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Galleries are using AI to measure the ‘quality’ of art… SET ME AFLAME

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...

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New AI headset analyzes astronauts’ brains to prep them for long-term space travel

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...

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DuckDuckGo’s new Email Protection service sounds helpful but limited

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...

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Scientists may have discovered a way to make us forget bad memories

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...

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A beginner’s guide to the AI apocalypse: Killer robots

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...

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Mainstream adoption of facial recognition can have sinister consequences

Mainstream adoption of facial recognition can have sinister consequences

On Dec. 14, the governments of British Columbia, Alberta, and Québec ordered facial recognition comp...

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We invited an AI to debate its own ethics in the Oxford Union — what it said was startling

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...

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These GPT-3 pick-up lines are better than the sleaze and cheese you sling on Tinder

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...

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