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New Scientist - Technology
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Social media companies change their policies in the wake of bad press
Between 2005 and 2021, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube were more likely to make policy changes in the weeks after negative stories in the media
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AI can reveal what’s on your screen via signals leaking from cables
Electromagnetic radiation leaking from the cable between your computer and monitor can be intercepted and decoded by AI to reveal what you are looking at
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Watch a robot peel a squash with human-like dexterity
A robot can hold a squash, pumpkin or melon in one hand, while it is peeled by the other
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DeepMind AI gets silver medal at International Mathematical Olympiad
AlphaProof, an AI from Google DeepMind, came close to matching the top participants in a prestigious competition for young mathematicians
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A skilful primer makes sense of the mathematics beneath AI's hood
Anil Ananthaswamy's Why Machines Learn: The elegant maths behind modern AI explores the mechanics of the AI revolution, but doesn't examine its ethics