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Picture of young couple using smartphones while dating together

Technology

Voice assistant recordings could reveal what someone nearby is typing

Tapping on devices that is detected by voice assistants could potentially be used to deduce what a person is typing on their phone up to half a metre away

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AI faces from sketches

Technology

An AI can generate photographs of people’s faces from line drawings

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Mind

Learning whilst you sleep was big business in the Soviet Union

Regulars

Teen born without half her brain has above average reading skills

Humans

Teen born without half her brain has above average reading skills

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Don't miss: A singing bridge, a lost people and brilliant minds

Humans

Don't miss: A singing bridge, a lost people and brilliant minds

Culture

Mario Klingemann's Memories of Passersby

Technology

The Artist in the Machine opens our eyes to AI's amazing creativity

Culture

Tony Veale & Mike Cook

Video

Social media bots: Discovering the world of twitter mischief-making

Video

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Life

Nightingales practise new songs in winter to impress mates in spring

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Physics

AI could solve baffling three-body problem that stumped Isaac Newton

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Judges of the European Court of Human Rights listen in Strasbourg, eastern France, on October 31, 2017. French President Emmanuel Macron addresses the European Court of Human Rights, where he is expected to defend France's controversial anti-terror law that gives authorities permanent powers to search homes, shut places of worship and restrict the movements of suspected extremists. / AFP PHOTO / POOL / Jean-Francois Badias (Photo credit should read JEAN-FRANCOIS BADIAS/AFP/Getty Images)

Technology

AI learns to predict the outcomes of human rights court cases

AI is going into law. It can now predict the outcomes of human rights cases and next year Estonia is planning to use the technology to moderate disputes in small claims courts

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Life

Macaques really can use logical reasoning to solve puzzles

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Technology

Galaxy simulator Ashley Spindler uses AI to understand the far cosmos

Regulars

Mind

Our brains replay experiences when we rest to help us make decisions

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Technology

AI learns to gamble illogically like humans to predict our behaviour

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