TNW23 hours agoNASA’s Voyager space probes will redefine what it means to live foreververified_publisherTNW - The ConversationVoyager 1 is the farthest human-made object from Earth. After sweeping by Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, it is now almost 15 billion miles (24 billion kilometers) from Earth in interstellar space. Both Voyager 1 and its twin, Voyager 2, carry little pieces of humanity in the form of their …
TNW1 day agoWatching this AI-assisted art video is like tripping on acid in the Matrixverified_publisherTNW - Tristan GreeneJason Silva, futurist and host of National Geographic’s “Brain Games,” recently published a mind-bending YouTube video combining the technological prowess of AI with the artistic creativity of someone who believes in the power of psychoactive experiences. It’s called “Dreaming while awake: a journey …
TNW1 day agoDoes it matter whose brain cells we use in gadgets of the future?verified_publisherTNW - The ConversationThe year is 2030 and we are at the world’s largest tech conference, CES in Las Vegas. A crowd is gathered to watch a big tech company unveil its new smartphone. The CEO comes to the stage and announces the Nyooro, containing the most powerful processor ever seen in a phone. The Nyooro can perform …
TNW1 day agoMachine learning has an alarming threat: undetectable backdoorsverified_publisherTNW - Ben DicksonThis article is part of our coverage of the latest in AI research. If an adversary gives you a machine learning model and secretly plants a malicious backdoor in it, what are the chances that you can discover it? Very little, according to a new paper by researchers at UC Berkeley, MIT, and the …
TNW2 days agoThe UAE’s AI minister wants ‘murder’ in the metaverse to be a real crimeverified_publisherTNW - Tristan GreeneOmar Sultan Al Olama, the United Arab Emirates minister of artificial intelligence, yesterday told an audience at the World Economic forum in Davos that it’s his belief that people who commit “serious crimes” in the metaverse should be punished with real-world criminal consequences. Per an article …
TNW2 days agoDuckDuckGo faces widespread backlash over tracking deal with Microsoftverified_publisherTNW - Thomas MacaulayDuckDuckGo’s reputation for protecting privacy has taken a hit after revelations emerged of a tracking deal with Microsoft. Security researcher Zack Edwards this week revealed that DuckDuckGo’s mobile browsers allow some Microsoft sites to bypass its block on trackers. While the browser blocks …
