Another New Covid-19 Variant Discovered In L.A. Might Be Vaccine Resistant, Researcher Says; Strain First Identified In Denmark

Two days after the Los Angeles Public Health Department announced that the much-talked-about UK variant of…

AI-powered text from this program could fool the government

Volunteers couldn’t tell AI-generated comments from those penned by humans. Read more at Ars Technica…

AI Technology Will Replace Humans In the Feild of Cybersecurity By 2030

As Artificial Intelligence (AI) becomes all-pervasive, a new report has forecast that technology would replace humans…

AI Weekly: Meet the people trying to replicate and open-source OpenAI’s GPT-3

A grassroots group of researchers is attempting to create an open source language model as powerful…

Windows 10 bug corrupts your hard drive on seeing this file’s icon

An unpatched zero-day in Microsoft Windows 10 allows attackers to corrupt an NTFS-formatted hard drive with…

Cyberpunk 2077 full development reportedly didn’t start until 2016

The demo of Cyberpunk 2077 showed at E3 in 2018 was “almost entirely fake”. Read more…

The planet is dying faster than we thought

A triple-threat of climate change, biodiversity loss and overpopulation is bearing down on Earth. Read more…

RISC-V Comes To The BeagleBoard Ecosystem With Upcoming Beagle V SBC

The Beagle V, a RISC-V-based single board computer from a collaboration between BeagleBoard and Seeed Studios…

Google trained a trillion-parameter AI language model

Researchers at Google claim to have trained a natural language model containing over a trillion parameters.…

Scientists May Have Detected a Signal That Could Change Astronomy Forever

Scientists think they may have spied the universe’s “gravitational wave background” after more than a decade…

User successfully runs Ubuntu on a jailbroken iPhone 7 – 9to5Mac

The jailbreak process lets users run several tweaks and other iOS modifications, but one user recently…

AI models from Microsoft and Google already surpass human performance on the SuperGLUE language benchmark

AI language models have surpassed human performance on a popular benchmark. But what does that really…

Birds might be conscious and self-aware like humans, groundbreaking study finds

So, calling someone a ‘bird brain’ is now a compliment? Read more at Mashable SEA…

‘Absolutely Life-changing Moment’: 17-Year-Old Wins Youth Science Competition By Making Quantum Physics Explainable

Canadian teenager Maryam Tsegaye remembers sitting in her dad’s lap as a young girl and asking…

Backdoor account discovered in more than 100,000 Zyxel firewalls, VPN gateways | ZDNet

The username and password (zyfwp/PrOw!aN_fXp) were visible in one of the Zyxel firmware binaries. Read more…

Apple loses copyright claim against Corellium startup | Cult of Mac

Apple has lost a copyright infringement case against Corellium, a startup that lets users run iOS…

Canadian research identifies walking speed as predictor of dementia

The speed at which you walk, or the so-called gait speed, might be a predictor of…

How the humble slime mold helped physicists map the cosmic web

Despite similarities, “We don’t think the universe was created by a giant slime mold.” Read more…

Cyberpunk 2077 Player Accidentally Buys Expensive Car And Immediately Dies From Shock

A player has shared a clip of the moment they died of shock in Cyberpunk after…

MuZero: Mastering Go, chess, shogi and Atari without rules

In 2016, we introduced AlphaGo, the first artificial intelligence (AI) program to defeat humans at the…