Chicago tried and failed to use big data to predict crimes
Have you ever seen the movie Minority Report? If you haven’t, all you need to know is that it’s about a special police unit that’s able to predict crimes, and is therefore able…
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Toyota is creating a “guardian angel” system for its cars
Not everyone is open to the idea of self-driving cars, and Toyota wants to ensure that those people can still enjoy most of the benefits of self-driving cars while still…
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Video games might speed up artificial intelligence development
Video games have evolved immensely over the past forty years, and for those of us who experienced this evolution first-hand, it can be strange to see how society has come…
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Reviews for the cloud-first Robin smartphone are coming in
Storage anxiety is something that most smartphone owners are painfully familiar with, and the only solution is to drop some extra cash on more internal storage, or buy a microSD…
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Toyota is developing an artificially intelligent vehicle safety system
Earlier today, the Toyota Research Institute announced a number of new artificial intelligence and robotics research projects, including some collaborative projects with the likes…
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Wikipedia is using artificial intelligence to attract more contributors
Although a handful of restrictions have been put in place over the years to reduce online vandalism, people are still more or less free to create and modify Wikipedia pages…
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Your fitness tracker data is pretty much useless for doctors
Wearable gadgets are a great way to gather information on your fitness and health habits, but what do you do with that information once you’ve gathered it? Giving it to your…
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Next-generation anti-virus software will work like a human brain
Evading anti-virus software isn’t exactly easy, but if malware authors have a mind to do so, they can design their malware to mutate in such a way that anti-virus software can’t…
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Disney is investing millions in virtual reality technology
The virtual reality market is still in its infancy, which is why so many companies are practically tripping over each other trying to establish a dominant position in the market.…
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Criminals are holding back some of the world’s most revolutionary tech
It’s hard being a Bitcoin supporter when criminals are constantly damaging the digital currency’s reputation with their illicit activities, but like it or not, they come with…
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Richard Stallman: Police body cams should turn on automatically
Body cameras have become an important topic of discussion amid the string of police brutality cases we’ve seen over the past year or two, and Richard Stallman has his own proposal…
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These students have developed a tool to kill Internet trolls in the womb
Internet trolls can turn an excellent website into an abuse-riddled mess that many people would sooner avoid, just ask Twitter. While many of the larger websites out there have…
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