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The Pentagon says a ban on AI weapons isn't necessary, But missiles, guns and drones that think for themselves already kill people in combat, and have been for years.
A $16-billion effort to modernize health records at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs ran into major problems in its first installation, two watchdog reports say.
"It's actually crazy how outdated it is." People born after AOL Mail was invented seem to prefer to communicate in almost any other way.
Scientists at the Robotor laboratory in Carrara, Italy, are developing sculpting robots to keep the country on the artistic forefront.
Facebook and Google have engineered artificial intelligence systems capable of understanding dozens of languages through the efforts of scientists like Alexis Conneau.
Technology companies are developing artificial intelligence (AI)-based tools to debug code as software maintenance becomes ever more challenging.
Researchers designed an algorithm to help a robot efficiently dress a human, theoretically ensuring human safety by reasoning about the human model's uncertainty.
A deep neural network can learn to identify tiger mosquitoes using a large set of images captured on mobile phones and uploaded to the Mosquito Alert platform by volunteers.
Chinese entrants swept all five categories, featuring technologies to improve civic life. But the advances could also be tools for surveillance.
One department official was reassigned, and lawyers still lack remote access to case files, leading to delays with lawsuits.
American intelligence agencies are tapping outside expertise as they wrestle with mysteries like the coronavirus and UFOs that are as much about science as they are about espionage.
Tencent Games says it has been using facial recognition to enforce China's rules on how much time people under 18 can spend playing video games.
New data security rules governing the payment system that facilitates direct deposits and direct payments for nearly all U.S. bank and credit union accounts are now in effect.
Chinese researchers have demonstrated the world's most powerful quantum computer, displacing Google's Sycamore processor as the holder of quantum supremacy.
Researchers found that potential users of artificial intelligence systems consider such systems’ “warmth” more important than capability and competence.
Researchers warn a Microsoft software patch did not fully correct a flaw in the Windows operating system that allows hackers to commandeer infected networks.
Facebook, Twitter, and Google have threatened to halt service to Hong Kong if the city's government revises its data protection laws to make the companies liable for doxing.
One gave our candidate a high score for English proficiency when she spoke only in German.
Artificial intelligence can give a boost to particle physics.
Engineers have developed physics-informed neural networking artificial intelligence to predict the performance of three-dimensionally-printed objects.
Scientists at IBM have proved quantum computing's superiority to classical computing in miniature, via a microscopic experiment with limited available memory.
A computer vision algorithm developed by Columbia Engineering researchers can intuitively predict human interactions and body language in video.
A lack of demand prompted Japan's SoftBank Robotics Group to cease manufacturing the Pepper humanoid robot in August 2020, the company said this week.
The public sector is increasingly interested in quantum computing as both a source of high-paying jobs and a technology vital to corporate strategic interests.
At an international competition called the A.I. Song Contest, tracks exploring the technology as a tool for music making revealed the potential — and the limitations.
Bad actors can exploit the flaw to remotely run code on victims' computers.
Cybersecurity researchers said the Russia-associated REvil hacker gang last weekend exploited previously unknown software flaws to cause a mass ransomware attack.
A new auto-navigation system will allow the Perseverance rover on Mars to drive itself.
Computer scientists at the University of Bath in the U.K. found that conductive seams in clothing, when accurately positioned, can be used to identify subtle movements by the wearer.