Simulating evolution: how close do computer models come to reality?
May 05, 2016 16:29 pm UTC| Insights & Views Technology
Darwins theory of evolution is a simple but powerful framework that explains how complexity can come from simplicity: how everything biological around us from the microbial biofilms on your teeth to the majestic redwood...
Cybersecurity's weakest link: humans
May 05, 2016 16:22 pm UTC| Insights & Views Technology
There is a common thread that connects the hack into the sluicegate controllers of the Bowman Avenue dam in Rye, New York; the breach that compromised 20 million federal employee records at the Office of Personnel...
Robot revolution: rise of the intelligent automated workforce
May 05, 2016 16:07 pm UTC| Insights & Views Technology
Losing jobs to technology is nothing new. Since the industrial revolution, roles that were once exclusively performed by humans have been slowly but steadily replaced by some form of automated machinery. Even in cases...
Google has got involved in healthcare data – can we trust it?
May 05, 2016 15:54 pm UTC| Insights & Views Technology
Google has some of the most powerful computers and smartest algorithms in the world, has hired some of the best brains in computing, and through its purchase of British firm Deepmind has acquired AI expertise that recently...
Why is Brazil trying to block WhatsApp?
May 05, 2016 07:11 am UTC| Insights & Views Law Technology
The debate about online privacy versus the battle against crime was given new life this week with an attempt in Brazil to ban the popular messaging application WhatsApp. A well-known and strict judge in a regional area...
Looking for art in artificial intelligence
May 03, 2016 07:20 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology
Algorithms help us to choose which films to watch, which music to stream and which literature to read. But what if algorithms went beyond their jobs as mediators of human culture and started to create culture...
Exactly what is innovative about the word 'innovation'?
May 03, 2016 07:18 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology
In the beginning was the Word. And the Word was innovation at least, it was this time round. In 2015, the Word was excellence. And in the antediluvian era of the 1980s and 1990s, the Word was, variously, access,...