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Seals have been trained to sing the Star Wars theme - have a listen

Life

Seals have been trained to sing the Star Wars theme - have a listen

51¶¯Âþs have trained grey seals to copy speech, as well as notes from music including the Star Wars theme and the nursery rhyme Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

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Space

Working hypothesis: From DJ sets in space to ancient bagels

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Soap from Napal (left) and from the UK (right)

Technology

AIs seem to be much worse at recognising objects from poorer countries

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Definition

Artificial intelligence (AI)

Fake news on a phone

Technology

Fake news generating AIs could be the best weapons to fight fake news

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AI predicts USA are favourites to win the 2019 Women’s World Cup

Technology

AI predicts USA are favourites to win the 2019 Women’s World Cup

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the author converted into a Google Map, using the Fast Style Transfer GAN

Technology

Anyone can now play with sophisticated AIs thanks to a desktop app

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Technology

AI gamer is a great team player

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Yoshua Bengio

Technology

Humans should worry us more than machines, says founding father of AI

Features

Two elephants

Life

Elephants can judge the quantity of hidden food just by using smell

Asian elephants have shown that they can judge quantities – the amount of seeds in a locked bucket – just by using their extremely sensitive sense of smell

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Health

Two brain-rejuvenating proteins have been identified in young blood

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Technology

Forget rampant killer robots: AI’s real danger is far more insidious

Comment

Technology

Rage, tech and Miley Cyrus: What the new Black Mirror will bring

Culture

Humans

Angela Saini video interview: The return of race in mainstream science

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