Category: General
Facebook translates ‘good morning’ into ‘attack them’, leading to arrest
Palestinian man questioned by Israeli police after embarrassing mistranslation of caption under photo of him leaning against bulldozer. Facebook has apologised after an error in its machine-translation service saw Israeli police arrest a Palestinian man for posting good morning on his social media profile. The man, a construction worker in the West Bank settlement […]
‘It’s able to create knowledge itself’: Google unveils AI that learns on its own
In a major breakthrough for artificial intelligence, AlphaGo Zero took just three days to master the ancient Chinese board game of Go … with no human help. Google’s artificial intelligence group, DeepMind, has unveiled the latest incarnation of its Go-playing program, AlphaGo an AI so powerful that it derived thousands of years of human […]
Under the skin: how insertable microchips could unlock the future
Volunteers in Melbourne have had microchips inserted for three months, designed to unlock doors and carry out other tasks. Will they really be any use? The microchip is about the size of a grain of rice and usually inserted in the webbing between the thumb and forefinger using a needle the same thickness as […]
Google exec: Our society is in real jeopardy
(CNN)In November 2014, the Guardians of Peace — a group affiliated with the North Korean government — hacked Sony Pictures because the studio was planning to release “The Interview,” a movie they felt insulted their leader, Kim Jong Un. After the initial breach, the hackers threatened theaters that were planning to show the film. The […]
Glass Room by Mozilla & TTC in London
There’s a lot of high-brow, abstract talk about privacy and personal data. SEE ALSO: Moscow’s facial recognition CCTV network is the biggest example of surveillance society yet But when it comes to our personal experience with it, all we usually get is a long, boring, overlooked list of conditions that nobody reads before signing up […]