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What's up in emerging technology
An old-fashioned AI has won a Starcraft shootout
We still don’t know if 3-D printers pose a health risk—but I’m taking no chances
A new personal genome test is free, but only if you bare all about your life
Google is closing a bipedal-robot project, but the robot revolution is far from over
Facebook is being accused of hiring a PR firm to smear its opponents
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Intelligent Machines
The rare form of machine learning that can spot hackers who have already broken in
Darktrace’s unsupervised-learning models sound the alarm before intruders can cause serious damage.
Sustainable Energy
California needs to reinvent its fire policies, or the death and destruction will go on
Reducing the escalating destruction from fires will mean rethinking development patterns, forest management, early warning systems, and more.
Intelligent Machines
Harvard researchers want to school Congress about AI
A tech boot camp will teach US politicians and policymakers about the potential, and the risks, of artificial intelligence.
Sustainable Energy
Brazil’s presidential election could mean billions of tons of additional greenhouse gases
Policies leading to more destruction of the Amazon and Cerrado would have a huge impact on climate change.
Intelligent Machines
Is this AI? We drew you a flowchart to work it out
The definition of artificial intelligence is constantly evolving, and the term often gets mangled, so we are here to help.
Sustainable Energy
China’s giant transmission grid could be the key to cutting climate emissions
But are the country’s next-generation power lines a clean-power play or a global power move?
Sustainable Energy
People will never vote for a carbon tax, so let’s stop asking
Voters in the state of Washington rejected, once again, what would have been the US’s first carbon tax.
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Professional services firms see huge potential in machine learning
B2B marketers share strong convictions about how data analytics can help them understand—and reach—their customers. The more benefits they have witnessed, the greater possibilities they see.
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Technology innovations: The future of AI and blockchain
A survey conducted at the EmTech MIT conference, September 11-14, 2018, and online, yielded some interesting responses on how technology is changing our lives.
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Digital transformation sparks innovation in networking
The network needs to keep pace with the demands of exciting new technologies like containers and microservices, according to presenters at a recent industry event. The first step in that process is changing the culture.
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For data-savvy marketers, there’s a new keyword: Intent
As more companies look to machine learning for insights, marketers need to use new tools and technology to engage potential customers at the right time and place.
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Intelligent Machines
The US military is testing stratospheric balloons that ride the wind so they never have to come down
A sensor that can spot the wind direction from miles away will let DARPA’s surveillance balloons hover at the very edge of space in one spot indefinitely.
Intelligent Machines
Artificial intelligence and robots are transforming how we work and live.
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Should a self-driving car kill the baby or the grandma? Depends on where you’re from.
The infamous “trolley problem” was put to millions of people in a global study, revealing how much ethics diverge across cultures.
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One of the fathers of AI is worried about its future
Yoshua Bengio wants to stop talk an AI arms race, and make the technology more accessible to the developing world.
by Will Knight