Surveillance drones can now spot violent attacks as they happen
7 June 2018
A drone surveillance system can spot violence in a crowd, including stabbing and strangling, but some worry the consequences have not been thought through
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AI is now better than humans at spotting signs of cardiac arrest
9 May 2018
A system designed by Copenhagen-based artificial intelligence company Corti is more accurate and faster at detecting signs of a cardiac arrest over the phone than dispatchers
Fooling AI can now be done a thousand times faster
20 December 2017
By changing an image pixel by pixel, neural networks can be tricked into thinking a dog is two people skiing
Your smartphone behaviour may decide whether you get a loan
30 November 2017
Some loan companies in India and Kenya are using contact details, text messages, and call logs to decide who makes the cut
An AI might help identify missing children when they're older
24 November 2017
Algorithm trained on 1000 children as they age could help flag up missing kids long after they age out of their last known photographs
Nothing you can do stops this code from watching you online
20 November 2017
Code originally written to optimise websites bypasses https and incognito browsing to harvest and share everything you type online, from passwords to sensitive medical data
Visual trick fools AI into thinking a turtle is really a rifle
3 November 2017
Changing the pattern on an object can fool an image recognition system into thinking it is looking at something else entirely – raising big concerns about face ID and driverless cars.
Bitcoin mining uses more energy than Ecuador – but there’s a fix
30 October 2017
Cryptocurrencies and the blockchain they run on already slurp as much energy as some countries, and as they go mainstream, something needs to be done
Driverless cars could let you choose who survives in a crash
13 October 2017
The question of who a driverless car should save in an accident is a thorny one. Letting car owners choose for themselves could be an easy way out
Tides on exoplanets could drive alien biological clocks
24 July 2017
On watery worlds that lack days and nights because one face always points toward their star, tides may help life emerge – and algal blooms might be the giveaway
