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Dieselgate’s cost Volkswagen over $30 billion, now its former CEO faces conviction

A German court today ordered former Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn to stand trial on charges of or...

sustainability 17:34 Wednesday Jul 26

A beginner’s guide to AI: Neural networks

Welcome to Neural Basics, a collection of guides and explainers to help demystify the world of artif...

tech 16:19 Wednesday Jul 26

A beginner’s guide to AI: Computer vision and image recognition

Welcome to TNW’s beginner’s guide to AI. This (currently) four part feature should provide you with ...

tech 16:19 Wednesday Jul 26

A beginner’s guide to AI: Natural language processing

Welcome to TNW’s beginner’s guide to AI. This (currently) four part feature should provide you with ...

tech 16:19 Wednesday Jul 26

A beginner’s guide to AI: Algorithms

Welcome to TNW’s beginner’s guide to AI. This (currently) four part feature should provide you with ...

tech 16:19 Wednesday Jul 26

Watch: AI developer upscales famous 1895 train scene to 4K at 60 FPS

A developer and YouTuber named Denis Shiryaev recently used “several neural networks” to update a fa...

tech 16:19 Wednesday Jul 26

Facial recognition company CEO says he doesn’t need permission to use your face

The CEO of facial recognition company Clearview AI, Hoan Ton-That, today gave his first network tele...

tech 16:19 Wednesday Jul 26

Scientists built an AI to figure out what the universe is made of

A multi-university team of researchers from Japan recently used the world’s fastest astrophysics-sim...

tech 16:19 Wednesday Jul 26

Court orders moratorium on black box AI that detects welfare fraud amid human rights concerns

The Hague District Court in The Netherlands yesterday ordered the Dutch government to halt its use o...

tech 16:19 Wednesday Jul 26

Reuters built a prototype for automated news videos using Deepfakes tech

The Reuters news company and an AI startup named Synthesia today unveiled a new project they’ve part...

tech 16:19 Wednesday Jul 26

NASA wants the auto industry to build its next Moon rover

NASA earlier this week released an official contract inquiry seeking help from the automobile indust...

tech 16:19 Wednesday Jul 26

Trump’s new budget pours billions into AI and quantum R&D

The US Office of Science and Technology today released more information about President Donald Trump...

tech 16:19 Wednesday Jul 26

Why Jeff Bezos might run for president to spite Elon Musk and Donald Trump

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is suing Donald Trump over the Pentagon’s decision to award a lucrative milita...

tech 16:19 Wednesday Jul 26

New artificial evolution research could finally prove Darwin was right

An international team of researchers may have just figured out why single-celled organisms such as t...

tech 16:18 Wednesday Jul 26

How a shady anti-piracy company got Google to take down posts containing the word ‘did’

A copyright watchdog service recently convinced Google to hide Search listings for websites containi...

tech 16:18 Wednesday Jul 26

Study: AI expert Gary Marcus explains how to take AI to ‘the next level’

The field of AI, especially in the realm of deep learning, is at an inflection point. We’re either g...

tech 16:18 Wednesday Jul 26

AI Now: Predictive policing systems are flawed because they replicate and amplify racism

The AI Now Institute’s Executive Director, Andrea Nill Sánchez, today testified before the European ...

tech 16:18 Wednesday Jul 26

Chess grandmaster Gary Kasparov predicts AI will disrupt 96% of all jobs

IBM’s Deep Blue wasn’t supposed to defeat Chess grandmaster Gary Kasparov when the two of them had t...

tech 16:18 Wednesday Jul 26

TNW announces Neural: A blog for human-centric AI news and analysis

We’re excited to officially launch Neural today, a blog dedicated to highlighting the impact artific...

tech 16:18 Wednesday Jul 26

The future of AI journalism is less hyperbole and smarter readers

Today we launched Neural, our new home for human-centric AI news and analysis. While we’re celebrati...

tech 16:18 Wednesday Jul 26

IBM and David Clark Cause announce 2020 Call For Code Challenge

IBM and its partner David Clark Cause today announced the official commencement of the 2020 Call For...

tech 16:17 Wednesday Jul 26

Clearview AI’s law enforcement client data stolen in massive breach

“Security is Clearview’s top priority.” Tor Eklund, attorney for Clearview AI. Clearview AI, the dub...

tech 16:17 Wednesday Jul 26

Alibaba’s new AI system can detect coronavirus in seconds with 96% accuracy

Chinese technology giant Alibaba recently developed an AI system for diagnosing the COVID-19 (corona...

tech 16:17 Wednesday Jul 26

British Airways is testing self-driving wheelchairs at JFK and Heathrow

British Airways will debut its self-driving wheelchair trial at Heathrow International Airport in Lo...

tech 16:17 Wednesday Jul 26

The YMCA is trialing robot lifeguards to prevent pool drownings

Coral Detection Systems, an Israel-based AI startup, is in the business of saving lives. It’s “Manta...

tech 16:17 Wednesday Jul 26

Scientists figured out how to fool state-of-the-art Deepfake detectors

A team of researchers from UC San Diego recently came up with a relatively simple method for convinc...

tech 16:17 Wednesday Jul 26

Google launches TensorFlow for quantum computers

Google today launched TensorFlow Quantum (TFQ), an open-source library for prototyping quantum machi...

tech 16:17 Wednesday Jul 26

Scientists successfully created a cybernetic neural network

An international team of researchers spread out over three labs in Switzerland, Italy, and the UK ha...

tech 16:16 Wednesday Jul 26

Introducing our new newsletter, Coronavirus in Context

Today we’re introducing our brand new newsletter: Coronavirus in Context. In this weekly email, we’l...

tech 16:16 Wednesday Jul 26

IBM takes on coronavirus with 2020 Call for Code challenge

The David Clarke Foundation and IBM announced the 2020 Call for Code challenge back in late February...

tech 16:16 Wednesday Jul 26