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Did you knowNeural is taking the stage this fall? Together with an amazing line-up of experts, we will explore the future of AI during TNW Conference 2021.Secure your online ticket now! Microsoft, a company with numerous military contracts, has brazenly admitted it intends to train an artificial intelligence agent to become “unbeatable” by humans in war simulations. Feel free to run amok in a fugue state of panic at your own discretion, but I should point out it’s for a video game....

Mark Zuckerberg might be looking out for a shiny future in the metaverse, butthe company’s past mistakes continue to haunt him. Amidst the ongoing Rohingya genocide in Myanmar, a number of refugees from the community currently based in the US and UK have sued Meta to the tune of $150 billion, for failing to clamp down on hate speech against the minority group. Before we look at the allegations against the company, a quick recap of what happened....

According to Rob McCray, President and Co-Founder of the Wireless-Life Science Alliance, we are just starting to uncover the possibilities that wireless healthcare will enable: “If this were the Internet commerce sector, we would be in 1995 when it was not clear what shape that sector would take.” In his 2009 TED MED talk, “The Future of Medicine,” Eric Topol, a noted American cardiologist, geneticist and innovator, spoke about the present and future of wireless healthcare....

It’s been a chaotic week in London and many other parts of England. As the riots have mostly settled down for now, the police are focusing their efforts on catching up with the criminals and evennaming and shamingthem on the same social networks that were supposedly used to coordinate the riots in the first place. Oh, the irony. As the dust settles on what has been a crazy week across the UK, serious questions are now being asked – namely, what the hell just happened there?...

Why the UK was dumb to use Microsoft Excel to count coronavirus cases An avoidable mistake We should not forget that the government and public health workers are doing an incredibly challenging and demanding job dealing with a pandemic. But this kind of mistake was avoidable. We live in a world of big data, with artificial intelligence and machine learning permeating all aspects of our lives. We have smart factories and smart cities; we have self-driving cars and machines trained to exhibit human intelligence....