For some time now the US Darpa research agency has been staging a competition to develop software that is capable of automatically defending against cyber-attacks, in the ...
August 6, 2016 at 2:00 pm by Alexander Neil
When it comes to a good beer, they are few and far between. Many people have different tastes and opinions about what makes a good beer, this includes the people who make the ...
July 8, 2016 at 9:40 am by Gareth Andrews
An experienced former US Air Force officer was beaten in a simulated fighter plane dogfight against an artificial intelligence running on a Raspberry Pi. ALPHA – the AI ...
July 1, 2016 at 11:40 pm by Ashley Allen
Isaac Asimov’s First Law of Robotics famously states: “A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.” Tell that to ...
June 17, 2016 at 6:00 pm by Ashley Allen
Have you ever felt like that you weren’t being treated with enough respect? In their latest announcement Roll-Royce want to address this issue by giving people access ...
June 17, 2016 at 9:40 am by Gareth Andrews
When you mention games set back in history, they often have difficulty dealing with sensitive issues and the problems people and society had in that generation. Mafia 3 looks ...
June 13, 2016 at 10:20 am by Gareth Andrews
Sunspring, a short sci-fi film which echoes the work of surreal auteurs David Lynch and Richard Kelly, has taken the Sci-Fi London film festival by storm. The short revolves ...
June 9, 2016 at 4:40 pm by Ashley Allen
If you believe Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak, and Professor Stephen Hawking, The Singularity – the point at which artificial intelligence outgrows the human race – will trigger ...
June 4, 2016 at 12:13 am by Ashley Allen
A trippy recreation of 1982 sci-fi classic Blade Runner – rendered from a simple set of digital data by an auto-encoding computer system – was so eerily close to the ...
June 3, 2016 at 12:04 am by Ashley Allen
In the modern age, technological advancements are occurring at a blistering pace and household items are now capable of incredible processing power. The introduction of ...
May 30, 2016 at 3:00 pm by John Williamson
A group of German scientists, presumably jealous of the innate anaesthesia of artificial beings, want robots to feel pain. Researchers from Leibniz University of Hannover aim ...
May 29, 2016 at 11:40 pm by Ashley Allen
AI has a growing place in our society and a number of them are becoming harder and harder to distinguish from humans while performing their tasks. This has been further shown ...
May 10, 2016 at 4:00 pm by Alexander Neil
In the last 4 years since Siri made its debut, the assistant AI has helped and entertained many users of Apple’s iOS-based products around the world. Now, Siri’s ...
May 10, 2016 at 3:20 pm by Alexander Neil
As technology evolves and we integrate it into our everyday lives, the risks that badly programmed software continues to pose a threat to everyone, knowingly or not. While ...
May 9, 2016 at 12:20 pm by Gareth Andrews
When it comes to our information we are all pretty protective. Even when we give it out online, many use alternative accounts and email addresses in order to protect their ...
May 4, 2016 at 1:00 pm by Gareth Andrews
