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Elon Musk wants to turn our homes into one big power plant

7 March 2018

Tesla has already built a massive battery in Australia, and now plans to fit more in 50,000 homes to create the world's largest virtual power plant


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Inside the cryptic world of UK computer art pioneer Paul Brown

7 March 2018

Brown’s Process, Chance, and Serendipity exhibition in Washington DC celebrates a great digital artistic career, but some works are curiously neutered


David Stillwell

I exposed how online profiling leaves us open to mass persuasion

7 March 2018

David Stillwell revealed how social media lets companies nail your personality as well as a spouse could, leaving you ripe for exploitation – but he sees the upside


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A cracking idea: The radical way to open up frozen seas

7 March 2018

Arctic routes are getting busier and some ships get trapped in the ice. Rather than smash them out with brute force, there is a more elegant way to free them


A Bristlecone chip being installed by Research Scientist Marissa Giustina at the Quantum AI Lab in Santa Barbara

Google's 72-qubit chip is the largest yet

6 March 2018

Google has announced Bristlecone, a 72-qubit quantum computer that may be the first to kickstart a new computing era by achieving quantum supremacy


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Automated dance teacher tells you when your moves are wrong

2 March 2018

Strictly and Dancing with the Stars judges could be replaced by a robot judge called HappyFeet. It can watch people dance and rate their moves


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AI cheats at old Atari games by finding unknown bugs in the code

27 February 2018

An AI found a bug in the Atari game Q*bert and exploited it to quickly score a million points. It used self-destruction as a winning strategy too


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