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We've only just realised the huge power and value of our data

15 May 2018

People signup to Facebook personality apps for fun but few read the terms and conditions. Once, this may have seemed reasonable, but the climate has changed

Huge new Facebook data leak exposed intimate details of 3m users

14 May 2018

Data from millions of Facebook users, including their answers to intimate questionnaires, was left exposed online for anyone to access, a New Scientist investigation has found

Trolley problem tested in real life for first time with mice

11 May 2018

Would you kill someone to save five others? The first lab enactment of this classic thought experiment raises issues for how we programme self-driving cars

Eye scanner can tell if you've mastered a foreign language

10 May 2018

By monitoring unconscious eye movements while reading, an algorithm can predict the proficiency of someone learning English as a second language

DeepMind AI developed navigation neurons to solve a maze like us

9 May 2018

Humans have neurons called “grid cells” that help us find our way as we navigate our surroundings. DeepMind's AI has developed something similar as it learned to navigate a maze

Google’s human-like phone calls are a clever but nasty trick

9 May 2018

Google’s AI assistant is getting an upgrade to let it make you an appointment by impersonating a human on the phone, but this tech could cause a host of problems