Month: April 2022

‘Mind-blowing’: Ai-Da becomes first robot to paint like an artist

AI algorithms prompt robot to interrogate, select, and decision-make to create a painting Brush clamped firmly in bionic hand, Ai-Da’s robotic arm moves slowly, dipping in to a paint palette then making slow, deliberate strokes across the paper in front of her. This, according to Aidan Meller, the creator of the world’s first ultra-realistic humanoid …

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How can US law enforcement agencies access your data? Let’s count the ways

A hack using a forged legal request that exposed consumer data collected by Apple and Meta shed light on the reach of the law A brazen hack that exposed consumer data collected by Apple and the Facebook-parent company Meta has raised fresh questions about how secure our data is in the hands of tech companies …

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In this game, vampires aren’t feral beasts – they’re the global elite

Vampire: The Masquerade – Swansong casts the figurative bloodsuckers of our world as literal night-stalking vampires, invisibly controlling the world How do you make vampires feel menacing again? For game developer Big Bad Wolf, the answer was to make the living dead responsible for everything wrong with our world. In an age where the lines …

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Upon my death, delete: how to plan your digital legacy

Whether you want your information destroyed, stored or memorialised, many tech platforms now offer options for handling users’ data after death Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email and listen to our podcast Our favourite memories and important documents used to be kept as physical objects: photo albums, scrapbooks, postcards, contracts and certificates of ownership. …

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Surf, scones… but no homes: the battle for the soul of Cornwall

Young locals live in tiny cabins while rich tourists flaunt their Range Rovers. Yet there’s more to the picture in a county at the vanguard of new technologies It’s the last day of free parking at Porthtowan beach on Cornwall’s wild Atlantic coast before the summer charging season begins. Plenty of people are making the …

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Is the end nigh for end-to-end for encryption? | Alex Hern

Europe’s new Digital Markets Act aims to make larger messaging platforms ‘interoperable’ with smaller ones. No wonder the tech titans are running scared The passage of GDPR (general data protection regulation) might seem like ancient history – as does everything before 2020 – but in legislative terms it was a mere blink of an eye …

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China accused of cyber-attacks on Ukraine before Russian invasion

UK investigating claims, but Ukrainian security service says it has ‘nothing to do with’ memos obtained by Times Ukraine-Russia war: latest updates China launched cyber-attacks on Ukrainian military and nuclear targets shortly before the Russian invasion, according to a report. The UK government confirmed that the National Cyber Security Centre was investigating the allegations, which …

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