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Conceptual art of network

Technology

Clever maths will stop hackers spying on the quantum internet

Quantum communications are theoretically secure, but keeping a complex quantum network unhackable in practice is more difficult than expected

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Humans

We must challenge notions that Marx can explain the modern world

Culture

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Technology

Engines of creation - and the people who build them

Culture

Great tits avoid bad food after seeing grossed-out friends

Life

Great tits avoid bad food after seeing grossed-out friends

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NASA has discovered our solar system’s twin with 8 planets

Space

NASA has discovered our solar system’s twin with 8 planets

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Man walks past weapons

Technology

Why we should build AI that sometimes disobeys our commands

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Physics

AI physicists: The machines cracking the quantum code

Features

Two young women at party

Technology

An AI has learned how to pick a single voice out of a crowd

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Technology

Artificial intelligence tells nightmare-inducing tales of terror

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People lie on the ground as a police officer points a gun

Technology

This AI reads the news to keep tabs on US police shootings

There’s no central government database on police-related shootings in the US, but now a machine-learning system is helping record details by scanning the news

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Technology

AI spots Alzheimer’s brain changes years before symptoms emerge

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Technology

Even a mask won't hide you from the latest face recognition tech

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Technology

Siri and Alexa can be turned against you by ultrasound whispers

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Technology

Computer knows how much pain you are in by studying your face

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