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DeepMind announced on Thursday that AlphaZero — the latest version of the famous AlphaGo AI that beat Go world champion Lee Sedol — can also play chess and shogi (Japanese chess) to superhuman levels.
The ethics review notes that this kind of approach raises serious ethical questions about undoing the presumption of innocence and allowing people to be targeted even if they’ve never committed an offense and potentially never would have done so.
A Google software engineer revealed concerning details about the company’s efforts to please the government China before it launched its latest entry into the country — the censored Chinese search app “Project Dragonfly” — which allegedly included the company blacklisting Chinese dissidents from its buildings for fear of upsetting the Chinese government.
Google has long sought to have a bigger presence in China, the world’s largest internet market, but has come under fire over the past months for not taking a harder line against the Chinese government amid protracted trade dispute between Washington and Beijing over tariffs.
CRISPR gene editing was launched into the spotlight this week when Chinese scientist, He Jiankui, claimed to have made the world’s first genome-edited babies using the technology. The resulting ethical debate about manipulating the human germline was important, to be sure, but it overshadowed a more immediate concern: Before CRISPR research can be safely translated into therapies, scientists will need better methods for avoiding potential damaging off-target effects of the technology.
A Seattle woman unwittingly injected deadly brain-eating amoebas into her nasal cavity when she rinsed out her sinuses with tap water, according to a new report.
Atlanta airport’s Terminal F has become the “first biometric terminal” in the United States.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends that everyone aged six months and up, including pregnant women, get an annual influenza vaccine. The two fundamental assumptions underlying the CDC’s policy are that vaccination reduces transmission of the virus and reduces the risk of potentially deadly complications. Yet multiple reviews of the scientific literature have concluded that there is no good scientific evidence to support the CDC’s claims.
In the future, pants could be made from artificial muscles that can help disabled people walk again. An article in The Guardian reported on the debut of such a pair of smart trousers, which was recently presented at a U.K. science fair.
Volkswagen will shift to producing electric cars after 2026, the company announced this week.
Amid controversy over the Chinese “social credit score” system, MasterCard and Microsoft are developing a “universally-recognized digital identity.”
Internal Facebook documents, previously seized by Britain, confirm that the tech giant made a habit of sharing user data with other firms without user consent and tried to avoid bad publicity by obfuscating its data vacuuming.
Traces of atrazine, a popular weedkiller, have been detected in 94 percent of water supplies studied by the USDA, making it a more common contaminate than any other pesticide. And for an estimated 7.6 million Americans, atrazine contaminates tap water supplies in amounts that potentially threaten human health. Now, new research has shown that atrazine is causing an uptick in birth defects.
If you believed the stories promoted by the mainstream media, it would seem that the Zika virus was an unstoppable threat to humanity, poised to unleash a wave of birth defects and other health problems. Though the Zika scandal has been exposed, much fear remains — in large part thanks to governing agencies that thrive on scaring the public. “There is no vaccine or medicine for Zika,” the CDC claims. But newly published research has shown that simply isn’t true: In a case study, scientists have found that vitamin C can cure human patients of the Zika virus.
After a two-year chase, a NASA spacecraft arrived Monday at the ancient asteroid Bennu, its first visitor in billions of years.
A squad of cops had to get creative to stop a speeding vehicle whose driver appeared to be asleep at the wheel. Despite blaring sirens, flashing lights, and shouts from the officers, the speeding Tesla Model S just kept going.
They are transforming the Internet into the greatest tool of surveillance that humanity has ever seen, and if we stay on the road that we are currently on it is only a matter of time until our society becomes a hellish dystopian nightmare. I wish that this was an exaggeration, but it isn’t. Over the past couple of decades, the Internet has completely changed the way that we all communicate with one another.
Celebrity scientist Neil deGrasse Tyson, whose behavior increasingly resembles Bill Cosby, now stands accused of inappropriate sexual behavior as well as drugging and raping a female astronomy student at the University of Texas in Austin.
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