How is artificial intelligence is helping us learn about the universe?
Astronomy is all about data. The universe is getting bigger and so too is the amount of information we have about it. But some of the biggest challenges of the...
Will AI ‘SantaNet’ end up destroying the world?
The ghost of Christmas yet to come: how an AI 'SantaNet' might end up destroying the world Within the next few decades, according to some experts, we may see the...
Exam Results 2020 – Why algorithms get things so wrong?
A-level results: why algorithms get things so wrong – and what we can do to fix them The scale of public anger over the automated downgrading of thousands of students’...
Autonomous Cars – 5 reasons they still aren’t on our roads
While the technology to enable a car to complete a journey without human input (what the industry calls “level 5 autonomy”) might be advancing rapidly, producing a vehicle that can...
Engineering Podcasts – In Machines We Trust
Produced by the MIT Technology Review, each episode of In Machines We Trust looks at a different aspect of the automation of.. well... everything Some of the most important decisions...
New Stonehenge discovery: how archaeologists found a prehistoric monument hidden in data
The chances of finding another major archaeological monument near Stonehenge today are probably very small given the generations of work that has gone into studying the site. Stumbling across such...