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The best new science fiction books of July 2023

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The best new science fiction books of July 2023

From George R. R. Martin’s new Wild Cards anthology to Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah's dystopian take on America, there is a wealth of exciting science fiction out this month. Culture editor Alison Flood shares the novels she is most anticipating

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W63DR9 Creech and Nellis Airmen coordinated a training flight together on the Nevada Test and Training Range, July 15, 2019. Aircrew with the 66th Rescue Squadron conducted training exercises and integrated with the MQ-9 Reaper aircrew to document the Reaper in flight. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Haley Stevens)

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AI recap this month: Drone 'kills' operator; DeepMind's speed up

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AIs will become useless if they keep learning from other AIs

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LONDON, ENGLAND - MAY 30: A pair of 1X androids are displayed at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) at ExCel on May 30, 2023 in London, England. The event is the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society's flagship conference and a forum for robotics researchers to present and discuss their work. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)

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Robotics gets less attention than it should given its potential impact

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Is it ethical to use complex mini-brains for artificial intelligence?

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Is it ethical to use complex mini-brains for artificial intelligence?

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DeepMind AI's new way to sort objects could speed up global computing

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Reports of an AI drone that 'killed' its operator are pure fiction

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A wind farm in South Lanarkshire, UK

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Software update for world’s wind farms could power millions more homes

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Death of an Author review: Murder mystery generated by AI isn't awful

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Death of an Author review: Murder mystery generated by AI isn't awful

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AI can work out how quantum computers stack up to one another

Comparing the properties of qubits in different quantum computers is challenging, but AI can tell them apart even when the state of the qubits is 98 per cent similar

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With AI exploiting businesses’ data, when do we get paid and by whom?

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How Elon Musk and Reddit are leading a war on AI web scraping

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Watermarking tool to prevent AI image editing can easily be thwarted

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Sci fi author Lavie Tidhar: Using Midjourney to explore ethics of AI

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