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Apple will let iPhone users keep iOS 14 after iOS 15 launches
The tech company will continue updating the old OS even after iOS 15 is released in…
Photographer Sues Capcom for $12M for Using Her Photos in Video Games
A photographer is suing Capcom for copyright infringement, accusing the video game maker of using her…
Neural Networks Emulate Any Guitar Pedal For $120
It’s a well-established fact that a guitarist’s acumen can be accurately gauged by the size of…
A rogue killer drone ‘hunted down’ a human target without being instructed to, UN report says
The KARGU-2, a deadly attack drone, autonomously attacked a human during a conflict in Libya, according…
Study Shows Transformers Possess the Compositionality Power for Mathematical Reasoning | Synced
From a philosophical perspective, reductionism is the most natural concept in the world: a whole can…
Terrible news, everyone: AI is learning how to post cringe
Specifically, AI-generated rap cringe. Read more at The Verge…
An AI has disproved five mathematical conjectures with no human help
An artificial intelligence has disproved five mathematical conjectures, despite not being equipped with any information about…
4 vulnerabilities under attack give hackers full control of Android devices
Google updates a 2-week-old security bulletin to say some vulnerabilities were 0-days. Read more at Ars…
Like ‘A Part of Their Body’: People Adapt to an Extra Thumb in Fascinating Experiment
An experiment in which 36 people were fitted with a robotic third thumb has demonstrated the…
AI searched for single-atom-alloy catalysts, found 200 promising candidates
Skoltech researchers and their colleagues from China and Germany have presented a new search algorithm for…
This AI Makes Robert De Niro Perform Lines in Flawless German
When films are dubbed in another language, an actor’s facial movements may clash with his lines.…
Google showed off its next-generation AI by talking to Pluto and a paper airplane
The next version of Google could be a conversation with AI. Read more at The Verge…
How I hacked my PlayStation Classic into the console Sony wouldn’t give us
With Project Eris, you can transform Sony’s miniature flop into the console it should have been…
GPT-3’s free alternative GPT-Neo is something to be excited about
GPT-Neo performs on par with GPT-3 on several key benchmarks, but unlike GPT-3, it’s open to…
Cybersecurity Researchers Build a Better “Canary Trap” – Using AI to Generate Fake Documents
A new artificial intelligence system generates fake documents to fool adversaries. During World War II, British…
Google Replaces BERT Self-Attention with Fourier Transform: 92% Accuracy, 7 Times Faster on GPUs | Synced
Transformer architectures have come to dominate the natural language processing (NLP) field since their 2017 introduction.…
Intel is using machine learning to make GTA V look incredibly realistic
Graphics can get even more realistic with the right inputs. Read more at The Verge…
Apple Execs Chose to Keep a Hack of 128 Million iPhones Quiet
Emails from the Epic Games lawsuit show Apple brass discussing how to handle a 2015 iOS…
Study Shows SSDs Are More Reliable than HDDs
An excellent side effect of no moving parts. Read more at Tom’s Hardware…