AlphaGo's AI upgrade gets round the need for human input
18 October 2017
AlphaGo Zero, Google DeepMind's artificially intelligent Go player, dominates humans and other AIs by learning itself – without any human training
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60 Seconds
18 October 2017
Seize the data, Sally's last meal...34 million years ago, the comfort of strangers
Huge Piccadilly Circus screen will target ads at certain cars
18 October 2017
A vast electronic display in London's Piccadilly Circus will use cameras to watch nearby cars and target certain models with certain ads
US Affordable Care Act dealt two blows by President Trump
18 October 2017
Last week, President Trump announced two changes that will make it easier for employers to sidestep Obama's healthcare legislation
A world where cameras are always on may make us less human
18 October 2017
The spread of body cams and smartphones could change who we are by stifling our natural impulse to gossip, misbehave and do really embarrassing stuff
Going for gold
18 October 2017
Given that athletics races can be won or lost by a margin as small as a hundredth of a second, do athletes risk a gold medal by wearing gold chains?
Hair shadows
18 October 2017
During the recent total solar eclipse in the US, I overlapped my hands, using the gaps between my fingers to form "pinholes". Just before the start of totality, someone noticed that the shadows formed through this "pinhole camera" onto a white board...
Silver surfers
18 October 2017
Recently, my wife's silver car became covered by a swarm of flying ants. This was odd because none of the other cars parked nearby had any on at all. A friend mentioned it had happened to his silver car too and after searching online it seems it's a...
Touch of frost
18 October 2017
If I park my car overnight on an open driveway in cold weather, I have to scrape frost from all of its windows in the morning. But if I park it under the adjacent carport, which is open on all sides but has a roof, no frost forms. Why does a roof make...
Broken faces of the Great War
18 October 2017
Men who became guinea pigs for cosmetic surgery are to be recognised with a memorial in the UK
