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Today, so many aspects of our lives are dependent on computers it's hard to imagine our world without them. Continuous breakthroughs have kept pace with Moore's Law, bringing ever more powerful computers at ever-diminishing prices and enabling revolutionary related technologies, such as deep learning, artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicles and mind-reading machines.

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San Francisco becomes first US city to ban facial recognition technology

Rich Haridy May 14, 2019

San Francisco has become the first city in the US to entirely ban local government and law enforcement uses of facial recognition technology. Although the ordinance is currently limited in its reach, it does strictly regulate the future deployment of all kinds of surveillance technology.

A local San Francisco city ordinance also demands city oversight into the deployment of any new ...

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Nvidia’s AI tech set to analyze medical scans for UK’s public health system

Matt Kennedy May 13, 2019

Artificial Intelligence promises to revolutionize many fields, but few as important as healthcare. With that in mind, Nvidia and King's College London have teamed up to build and train an AI platform to interpret radiological scans for hospitals across the UK.

Artificial Intelligence platforms look set to change the face of medical imaging analysis across the UK's ...

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An AI-generated Salvador Dali is alive and taking selfies in a Florida museum

Rich Haridy May 12, 2019

Visitors to The Dali Museum will now be greeted by a digitally resurrected simulation of Salvador Dali. Created using machine learning and deepfake technologies, this digital Dali is programmed to communicate in novel ways from commenting on the day’s weather to taking a selfie with museum patrons.

This digital Dali has been programmed to peruse the daily newspaper, chat about the weather, and ...

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World's fastest supercomputer will heat up race to the exascale era

Michael Irving May 8, 2019

Supercomputers will take a huge leap forward when the “exascale” era kicks off in 2021 with the launch of Aurora. But now it looks like that world-leading machine will be usurped before it’s even set up. The Frontier system has been announced, which will boast the power of over 1.5 exaflops.

The Frontier system will be the world's fastest supercomputer, boasting the power of 1.5 exaflops

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Harvard system could store data in organic molecules for millennia

Michael Irving May 2, 2019

The world's data has to be stored somewhere, and huge servers take up heaps of physical space and require huge amounts of energy. Now, Harvard researchers have developed a new system for reading and writing information with organic molecules, which could sit stable and secure for thousands of years.

Harvard researchers have developed a new system for reading and writing data to organic molecules

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Razer's April Fools' toaster to become the real deal

Matt Kennedy May 1, 2019

Every year, businesses get in on the April Fool’s fun, attempting to trick us into believing they’ve either had a stroke of genius or the entire board of directors have gone stark raving mad, but now one of these pranks, the Razer Toaster, is becoming a reality.

The Razer Toaster as imagined on 'Project Breadwinner'

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CompuLab revamps small form factor rugged computer

Paul Ridden April 26, 2019

Israel's CompuLab has launched the third generation of its fanless, rugged Airtop mini-PC, with more memory capacity, more connectivity options and Intel's 9th gen Core CPU running the show.

CompuLab has completely overhauled its rugged industrial mini-PC, the Airtop3

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Meet Dadabots, the AI death metal band playing non-stop on Youtube

Rich Haridy April 22, 2019

Currently live-streaming on YouTube is a non-stop, algorithmically-generated torrent of technical death metal, and regardless of one’s personal musical taste, it’s undeniably an impressive example of machine-driven creativity.

After being trained on the technical death metal of Canadian band Archspire, the algorithm is now ...

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Microsoft's Surface Hub 2S digital whiteboard is here to upgrade your office meetings

David Nield April 18, 2019

Four years after the original Surface Hub arrived, and a year after announcing its successor, Microsoft is now launching the Surface Hub 2S in 50-inch and (eventually) 85-inch versions. The giant, interactive digital whiteboard can be yours for a mere $9k from June.

The 50-inch Surface Hub 2S is the first of the second-gen models to go on sale

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Reconstructed Heath Robinson, precursor to the Colossus computer, unveiled

David Szondy April 11, 2019

The Heath Robinson, a reconstruction of a major piece of cybernetic history and the precursor to Colossus, the world's first programmable electronic digital computer, has made its public debut at the National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire, UK.

The reconstructed Heath Robinson machine