Bitcoin has become an environmental, as well as financial, disaster
12 December 2018
We should be celebrating bitcoin's downfall. What began as an interesting experiment now consumes enough electricity to power 4 million US homes
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Bitcoin's price is plummeting – will the cryptocurrency survive?
12 December 2018
Bitcoin investors have had a rough ride this year as the price of the cryptocurrency has tumbled, making it less economical to produce the coins
From the archives: How LaserDiscs (almost) took the world by storm
12 December 2018
In 1978, stackable 30-centimetre discs were launched to rival video cassettes. They promised vastly superior sound and picture quality – and flopped
Major companies are using AI to decide who you speak to on the phone
11 December 2018
When you ring a call centre, an AI could be deciding which person will speak to you, based on their ability to influence your decisions
Drone owners in India must get government approval before every flight
11 December 2018
A law designed to open up civilian access to the skies in India overturns a ban on drones, but only by giving the government automated control over when they can take off
Why Australia’s new encryption laws may actually help criminals
7 December 2018
Australia has just introduced new laws forcing companies to give them access to people’s encrypted messages. Cybersecurity researchers say this will likely backfire
DeepMind’s Go playing software can now beat you at two more games
6 December 2018
A machine learning system called AlphaZero is the first AI that can learn to master more than one game using the same algorithm - it can play Go, chess and shogi
Facebook grew so big that it destabilised the world. What now?
6 December 2018
Facebook used to “move fast and break things”, but now everything is broken. Here’s what governments can do to rein in the tech giants
Your whole office could be a computer thanks to sculpted Wi-Fi waves
4 December 2018
Bouncing around specially tailored waves can turn an entire room into an analogue computer, which could help build an energy-efficient artificial intelligence
