The U.S. Supreme Court, hearing a case that could reshape the internet, considered on Tuesday whether Google bears liability for user-generated content when its algorithms recommend videos to users. In the case, Gonzalez vs, Google, the family of a terrorist attack victim contends that YouTube violated the federal Anti-Terrorism Act Read more…
Last year, Sony AI and Polyphony Digital, the developers of Gran Turismo, developed a new AI agent that is able to race at a world-class level. At the time, the experiment was described in a paper in Nature, where the researchers showed that this AI was not only capable of Read more…
I cannot believe that God plays dice with the cosmos. — Albert Einstein, on the randomness of quantum mechanics
“All right, we’re going to begin this hour with a question on many people’s minds these days, amid all these major developments in the field of artificial intelligence. And that question is this: How long until the machines replace us, take our jobs?” That’s the beginning of a segment broadcast Read more…
Scientists from China’s Hebei University of Science and Technology have developed an ice-melting additive for asphalt that could remain active for years. [The researchers started] out by developing a chloride-free acetate-based salt. Such salts are considerably less environmentally harmful than chlorides, they’re less corrosive to steel and other materials, plus Read more…
A 19-month-old girl named Teddi recently became the first child in the U.K. outside a clinical trial to receive a new gene therapy for metachromatic leukodystrophy (MLD), a fatal genetic disorder, the National Health Service (NHS) announced. Roughly six months out from treatment, “Teddi is a happy and healthy toddler Read more…
There may soon come a time when your car also serves as the hub of your personal power plant and then they tell the story of a New Mexico man named Nate Graham who connected a power strip and a $150 inverter to his Chevy Bolt EV during a power Read more…