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Birds 'dream sing' by moving their vocal muscles in their sleep

Life

Birds 'dream sing' by moving their vocal muscles in their sleep

Zebra finches sing during the day, and at night while they sleep their vocal organs act out the motions of singing, a bit like a sleepwalking person

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Man with phone

Technology

App guesses your emotions to target you with adverts

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Police stop a driver whilst wearing smart glasses

Technology

Chinese police use face recognition glasses to catch criminals

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Coloured spheres

Technology

DeepMind’s virtual psychology lab seeks flaws in digital minds

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Art history AI sees links between hundreds of years of paintings

Technology

Art history AI sees links between hundreds of years of paintings

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Facebook is making a chatbot that can fill awkward silences

Technology

Facebook is making a chatbot that can fill awkward silences

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Balloon inflating game

Technology

Your next job interview could be playing a weird smartphone game

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Smart glasses

Technology

How do you stop your smart glasses filming in the toilet?

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Library

Technology

AI that cracked ancient secret code could help robot translation

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A judge sitting in a courtroom

Technology

Algorithms that change lives should be trialled like new drugs

An algorithm used by US courts to predict reoffenders turns out to be no more accurate than random people on the internet. Why wasn’t it properly tested before now?

Analysis

Technology

Chit-chat makes humans and robots work together better

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Technology

AI listens in on emergency calls to diagnose cardiac arrest

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Life

How besieged ants decide when it’s time to abandon their nests

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Humans

It’s up to us if powerful AI embodies our virtues or our vices

Culture

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