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Technology

AIs could debate whether a smart assistant should snitch on you

If a smart home spots cannabis in a teenager’s bedroom, should it tell their parents? Or even the police? One proposal is to let debating AIs decide

News

We don't know the real impact of fake news and other disinformation

Technology

We don't know the real impact of fake news and other disinformation

Leader

How to upgrade your thinking and avoid traps that make you look stupid

Mind

How to upgrade your thinking and avoid traps that make you look stupid

Features

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Technology

Fears of OpenAI’s super-trolling artificial intelligence are overblown

Analysis

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Technology

AI has helped rescue children trafficked for sexual exploitation

News

A child gets their chest examined

Technology

AI can diagnose childhood illnesses better than some doctors

News

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Life

Crows can solve a tricky puzzle box by planning ahead and using tools

News

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Life

Bees can pass a simple maths test but they might just be cheating

News

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Earth

How Earth's changing ecosystems may have driven human evolution

News

Neanderthals artwork

Humans

Cosy up with the Neanderthals, the first humans to make a house a home

Meet the Stone Age people who liked nothing better than spending time indoors around the fire, doing a spot of DIY and having friends over for dinner

Features

Technology

DeepMind AI thrashes human professionals at video game StarCraft II

News

Environment

10 year challenge: How science and the world have changed

News

AI chemist figures out how to legally clone expensive patented drugs

News

Technology

All I Know is What's on the Internet review: The shocks don't work

Culture