
The Next Web - 2 days 2 hours ago
A British R&D unit that's been compared to DARPA is funding synthetic muscles, electronic skin, and mechanical hands for a robotics dexterity project. The Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) today unveiled the 10 teams selected for the programme. Their mission: usher in a new era of dexterity that will transform robotics and human productivity. Members of the group span startups, university labs, public research organisations, and large companies. Collectively, they will receive 52mn...

BBC - 2 days 2 hours ago
It found they were easily able to bypass age checks on apps, which face being banned for under-16s.

New Scientist - 2 days 4 hours ago
Questioning a chatbot that has been trained on bestselling books from a particular decade can give researchers a measure of the social biases of that era...

BBC - 2 days 5 hours ago
The lead researcher has told the BBC he was so astounded he assumed his computer had been hacked.

Vox - 2 days 5 hours ago
The software we need to stop spam texts is being outpaced by the software used to generate them. As soon as I sat down to write this, I got a text that simply said, "Hi." In another era, I may have been intrigued by the mysterious message from an unknown number. Maybe I would’ve been curious about who wanted to say hello, and texted back. But this is not my first time playing this game. Scam texts are a growing multibillion-dollar industry. As robocalls become less common thanks, in...