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Crows make the right tool by remembering the last one they saw

Life

Crows make the right tool by remembering the last one they saw

New Caledonian crows made bespoke food vouchers from memory with their beaks and claws, ripping pieces of card into exactly the right size to get a reward

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IBM's debating robot argues it out with human for first time

Technology

IBM's debating robot argues it out with human for first time

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DeepMind’s AI can ‘imagine’ a world based on a single picture

Technology

DeepMind’s AI can ‘imagine’ a world based on a single picture

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Four images of Barack Obama from a fake videos

Technology

How can you tell if a video is a deepfake? Just look at the eyes

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Sperm whales are tracking fishing boats and stealing their fish

Earth

Sperm whales are tracking fishing boats and stealing their fish

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An aerial shot of a building site

Technology

AI construction worker plans the fastest way to put up buildings

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Graffiti of a yellow duck and a caption saying

Technology

Anti-swearing AI takes the edge off abuse on Reddit and Twitter

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Walter Pitts

Life

How a frog’s eye robbed us of a genius’s AI masterwork

Features

Scene from Spotlight

Technology

AI inspired by the film Spotlight could track down child abusers

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Pigeons can understand probabilities - just like primates can

Life

Pigeons can understand probabilities - just like primates can

We know that humans and some other primates can instinctively distinguish between high and low probabilities – now pigeons have shown they might share the skill

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Technology

Facebook AI turns your idle humming into a Bach orchestra piece

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Life

Chimp evolution was shaped by sex with their bonobo relatives

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Humans

We may have got the evolution of our big brains entirely wrong

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Humans

World's most-spoken languages may have arisen in ancient Iran

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