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AI lie detection at border control should proceed with caution

31 October 2018

A new tool that uses AI to help make border control decisions will only be advisory, but history shows people give technology too much weight
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The LIGO collaboration must respond to gravitational wave criticism

31 October 2018

Science advances through open scrutiny of results. Even if they're wrong, the questions raised about the 2016 gravitational wave discovery should be answered

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