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[Link] AI firm DeepMind puts database of the building blocks of life online
Read: 8/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
Last year the artificial intelligence group DeepMind cracked a mystery that has flummoxed scientists for decades: stripping bare the structure of proteins, the building blocks of life.
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[Link] Black-Box Attacks on Perceptual Image Hashes with GANs
Read: 7/8/2021 towardsdatascience.com
A Perceptual image hash (PIH) is a short hexadecimal string (e.g. ‘00081c3c3c181818’ ) based on an image’s appearance. Perceptual image hashes, despite being hashes, are not cryptographically secure hashes.
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[Link] South Africa issues world's first patent listing AI as inventor
Read: 6/8/2021 www.globallegalpost.com
South Africa has become the first country to award a patent that names an artificial intelligence as its inventor and the AI’s owner as the patent's owner.
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[Link] Apple Introduces Parental Control Feature That Scans Messages for Nudity
Read: 5/8/2021 www.vice.com
Apple plans to introduce a new feature that would scan messages sent to and by child users of iPhones to determine if the images contain nudity, the company announced on Thursday. The move is a major development in the ongoing debate around privacy and the inspection of communications.
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[Link] Man creates A.I. version of dead fiancée so he can still text her
Read: 27/7/2021 www.indy100.com
Joshua Borbeau’s fiancée, Jessica Pereira, died from a rare form of liver disease and the grieving man has now created an electronic version of her so he can text her. The story was reported by the San Francisco Chronicle and details how Borbeau created the A.I.
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[Link] Wimbledon: The tech behind the world’s top tennis tournament
Read: 6/7/2021 arstechnica.com
Update, July 3, 2021: It's July 4 weekend in the US, which means Ars staff gets a well-deserved holiday to build Lego microscopes (or maybe just to rest). As such, we're resurfacing a few classics from the Ars archives, including this look behind the scenes of the Wimbledon tennis tournament.