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Surveil-a-whale

With only 500 right whales left in the Atlantic, we need to keep tabs on them. It turns out artificial intelligence is perfect for the job. A competition sponsored by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration asked researchers to train AIs to recognise the whales using the unique pattern on their heads. Now you can pick out the whales just by flying a drone over them.

“WhatsApp will no longer charge subscription fees”

Now you’re the product. WhatsApp announced on Monday that it would stop charging fees, instead making money by helping customers to communicate with businesses

Is Google sexist?

Really, Google? A study from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, finds that websites show men ads for higher paying jobs than those women see. The researchers found the disparity by looking at more than 600,000 targeted ads served on the search engine. It’s not the first discovery of hidden discrimination online. In 2013, Harvard researchers noticed that searches for African American names prompted more ads offering to check for arrest records.