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Kate Crawford interview: How AI is exploiting people and the planet

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Kate Crawford interview: How AI is exploiting people and the planet

Beyond the headline breakthroughs, artificial intelligence is a global industrial complex. Having explored its political and social implications, Kate Crawford at Microsoft Research is now focusing on the infrastructure underpinning AI

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Why do flamingos stand on one leg?

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Why do flamingos stand on one leg?

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Horses may recognise themselves in a mirror, hinting at self-awareness

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Altered bioelectric genes give zebrafish wings like flying fish

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Altered bioelectric genes give zebrafish wings like flying fish

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UK still using racially biased passport tool despite available update

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Electric catfish cannot be shocked and scientists don’t know why

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Electric catfish cannot be shocked and scientists don’t know why

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Some Amazon jaguars have adapted to live in treetops to avoid flooding

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Some Amazon jaguars have adapted to live in treetops to avoid flooding

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Some sea slugs behead themselves and then regrow their bodies

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Some sea slugs behead themselves and then regrow their bodies

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AI has a specific Spider-Man 'brain cell' just like humans do

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AI has a specific Spider-Man 'brain cell' just like humans do

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Some frogs have noise-cancelling lungs to dampen other species’ calls

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Some frogs have noise-cancelling lungs to dampen other species’ calls

To better hear a male’s mating call, some female frogs have noise-cancelling lungs, which resonate at frequencies that filter out the sounds of other species

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Facebook AI learned object recognition from 1 billion Instagram pics

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Life

Playing dead really works to help insects avoid being eaten by birds

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Environment

Dolphins that help humans catch fish are being disturbed by ship noise

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Life

Pufferfish blink by pulling in their eyeballs and puckering their skin

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