Defining what is, or isn’t artificial intelligence can be tricky (or tough). So much so, even the experts get it wrong sometimes. That’s why MIT Technology Review’s Senior AI Reporter Karen Hao created a flowchart to explain it all. In this bonus content our Host Jennifer Strong and her team reimagine Hao’s reporting, gamifying it […]
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An AI helps you summarize the latest in AI
The news: A new AI model for summarizing scientific literature can now assist researchers in wading through and identifying the latest cutting-edge papers they want to read. On November 16, the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) rolled out the model onto its flagship product, Semantic Scholar, an AI-powered scientific paper search engine. It provides […]
Asia’s biggest climate migration
On May 20, Super Cyclone Amphan was expected to make landfall in the Indian state of West Bengal. That morning, as the wind picked up, Mitali Mondol and her husband, Animesh, fled their house, leaving behind everything they owned. The Mondols live in Gosaba, an island in the Sundarbans, an archipelago that is home to […]
Apple Will Pay $113 Million to Settle Investigation Into iPhone ‘Batterygate’ Issue
In 2016, it came to light that Apple is throttling the performance of iPhones to preserve the battery life of its mobiles in order to cope up with the battery life degradation over time. People all over the world criticised the Cupertino-based tech giant for withholding this information. People accused that the slow performance of […]
Apple’s Internal Document Acknowledges Green Tint/ Flickering issue with iPhone 12 Models
Apple has acknowledged an issue with the iPhone 12 display in an internal document obtained by MacRumors. As per the document, iPhone 12 users face display flickering, green glow, or varied lighting in specific scenarios. Continue reading → Powered by WPeMatico
Leveraging collective intelligence and AI to benefit society
A solar-powered autonomous drone scans for forest fires. A surgeon first operates on a digital heart before she picks up a scalpel. A global community bands together to print personal protection equipment to fight a pandemic. “The future is now,” says Frédéric Vacher, head of innovation at Dassault Systèmes. And all of this is possible with […]
EmTech Stage: Twitter’s CTO on misinformation
In the second of two exclusive interviews, Technology Review’s Editor-in-Chief Gideon Lichfield sat down with Parag Agrawal, Twitter’s Chief Technology officer to discuss the rise of misinformation on the social media platform. Agrawal discusses some of the measures the company has taken to fight back, while admitting Twitter is trying to thread a needle of […]
Spotify, Epic Accuse Apple of Dividing App Creators with Fee Reduction for Small Developers
Lately Epic, Spotify, and other large app makers have raised their voices against Apple’s App Store policy. Today Apple announced App Store fee reduction for small developers. The reduced App Store commission is available for apps that gross less than $1 million per year. Continue reading → Powered by WPeMatico
EmTech Stage: Facebook’s CTO on misinformation
Misinformation and social media have become inseparable from one another; as platforms like Twitter and Facebook have grown to globe-spanning size, so too has the threat posed by the spread of false content. In the midst of a volatile election season in the US and a raging global pandemic, the power of information to alter […]
‘Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity’ Is an Uneasy Mix of Two Very Different Worlds
Nintendo’s highly anticipated hack-and-slash crossover misses too much of what makes Zelda: Breath of the Wild a masterpiece. Powered by WPeMatico