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Russian hackers are accused of infecting three Eastern European companies with malware
MIT has just announced a $1 billion plan to create a new college for AI
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Business Impact
How acting as Carrie Fisher’s puppet made a career for Rogue One’s Princess Leia
“Ghost acting” is helping young actors build careers beyond their 15 minutes of fame
Business Impact
Actors are digitally preserving themselves to continue their careers beyond the grave
Improvements in CGI mean neither age nor death need stop some performers from working.
Rewriting Life
DNA databases are too white. This man aims to fix that.
Carlos D. Bustamante’s hunt for genetic variations between populations should help us better understand and treat disease.
Connectivity
The smartphone app that can tell you’re depressed before you know it yourself
Analyzing the way you type and scroll can reveal as much as a psychological test.
Intelligent Machines
The US military wants to teach AI some basic common sense
Even the best AI programs still make stupid mistakes. So DARPA is launching a competition to remedy the field’s most glaring flaw.
Business Impact
NASA is using HoloLens AR headsets to build its new spacecraft faster
Lockheed Martin engineers wear the goggles to help them assemble the crew capsule Orion—without having to read thousands of pages of paper instructions.
Connectivity
A big tech company is working to free the internet from big tech companies
Cloudflare’s “gateway” system opens the door to the decentralized web
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The bot that loved me: How intelligent automation will improve our jobs and our companies
Machine learning technology is the key to reducing expenses, improving productivity and making workers happier.
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We can now customize cancer treatments, tumor by tumor
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Intelligent Machines
Artificial intelligence and robots are transforming how we work and live.
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China’s leaders are softening their stance on AI
A year after announcing an aggressive plan to dominate artificial intelligence, China’s vice premier has called for international collaboration.
by Will Knight
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Your next doctor’s appointment might be with an AI
A new wave of chatbots are replacing physicians and providing frontline medical advice—but are they as good as the real thing?
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Why we can’t quit the QWERTY keyboard
We’ve been using it to type for 144 years. Here’s why it works, and what it would take for us to give it up.
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