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Facebook's war room during Brazil's elections last year

Facebook has a plan to tackle fake news – here's why it won't work

31 October 2019

Ahead of the UK general election, Facebook says it is tackling interference and misinformation. But the firm’s efforts are unlikely to have much effect
AlphaStar in green dealing with flying units from the Zerg players with a combination of powerful anti-air units

DeepMind’s StarCraft-playing AI beats 99.8 per cent of human gamers

30 October 2019

AlphaStar, the AI built by tech firm DeepMind, has reached the top ranks of StarCraft II players, above 99.8 per cent of human gamers

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