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Apps used as alternatives to prison in US found to have privacy flaws

3 September 2022

An analysis of 16 apps used as alternatives to incarceration found numerous privacy problems including in an app used to track almost 248,000 immigrants
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DeepMind AI learns to play soccer using decades of match simulations

31 August 2022

An artificial intelligence learned to skilfully control digital humanoid soccer players by working through decades' worth of soccer matches in just a few weeks

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