Working hypothesis: From deepfake Dali to black toothpaste
15 May 2019
Our regular column sorting the week's supernovae from the absolute zeros
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Dreams: The PS4 game that lets you design and share your own reality
15 May 2019
Dreams, a groundbreaking new Playstation 4 game, lets everyone build their own exciting worlds by playing at being a developer - only without all that coding
The UK's plan to block online pornography could be a privacy disaster
27 March 2019
A scheme designed to limit children's access to adult content could end up creating a massive database of people's pornography habits
The best image-recognition AIs are fooled by slightly rotated images
13 March 2019
Driverless cars have a problem – rotations of an object fool the best image recognition AIs, which may mean confusing a tin for a truck on the road
Nonfacial Portrait review: art fights to save faces and paint over AI
14 November 2018
Artists play cat and mouse with face-recognition software at a South Korean exhibition in the battle to retain a division between humanity and machines
Incognito mode: the battle for privacy in a world of face recognition
12 September 2018
Face recognition technology has rapidly found its way into modern society, from policing to shopping. Is it too late to hold back the tide?
Cybersecurity is failing us – and will continue to do so unless we act
8 August 2018
Our current model of internet security is too vulnerable to the mistakes of individual programmers. Better alternatives exist – and should be deployed
Japanese computers may go haywire when the emperor abdicates
23 July 2018
Japanese computers could go haywire next year when the emperor steps down. The calendar is based on the emperor’s reign and most tech is not ready for the change
Is it too late to stop fake-news bots from taking over the world?
11 July 2018
Lawmakers want to clamp down on automated social media accounts before they affect elections, but innocent and benign bots could get caught in the crossfire
Tired of tea rounds? Dial a drink with this desktop barista
20 June 2018
Trouble keeping track of which colleagues need caffeination? This push-button solution will suit you to a T
