CES 2019 is bullshit we don’t need after 2018’s techlash
The asinine charade that is CES is running in Las Vegas this week. Describing itself as 'the global stage of innovation', CES attempts to...
Quantum computing, edge analytics, and meta learning: key trends in data science and big...
When historians study contemporary notions of data in the early 21st century, 2018 might well be a landmark year. In many ways this was...
Troll Patrol Report: Amnesty International and Element AI use machine learning to understand online...
Amnesty International has partnered with Element AI to release a Troll Patrol report on the online abuse against women on Twitter. This finding was...
NVIDIA demos a style-based generative adversarial network that can generate extremely realistic images; has...
In a paper published last week, NVIDIA researchers come up with a way to generate photos that look like they were clicked with a...
The cruelty of algorithms: Heartbreaking open letter criticizes tech companies for showing baby ads...
2018 has thrown up a huge range of examples of the unintended consequences of algorithms. From the ACLU’s research in July which showed how...
Australia’s ACCC publishes a preliminary report recommending Google Facebook be regulated and monitored for...
The Australian competition and consumer commission (ACCC) have today published a 378-page preliminary report to make the Australian government and the public aware of...
AI Now Institute releases Current State of AI 2018 Report
The AI Now Institute, New York University, released its third annual report on the current state of AI, yesterday. 2018 AI Now Report focused...
Google employees join hands with Amnesty International urging Google to drop Project Dragonfly
Yesterday, Google employees have signed a petition protesting Google’s infamous Project Dragonfly. “We are Google employees and we join Amnesty International in calling on...
Facebook’s outgoing Head of communications and policy takes blame for hiring PR firm ‘Definers’...
On 4th November, the New York Times published a scathing report on Facebook that threw the tech giant under scrutiny for its leadership morales....
OpenCV 4.0 releases with experimental Vulcan, G-API module and QR-code detector among others
Two months after the OpenCV team announced the alpha release of Open CV 4.0, the final version 4.0 of OpenCV is here. OpenCV 4.0...
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