Rancid food smells and tastes gross − AI tools may help scientists prevent that spoilage
Pantry staples can go rancid when exposed to oxygen. Daniel de la Hoz/MomentHave you ever bitten into a nut or...
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In our first major intelligence review since COVID, here are 7 key priorities to be ready for the next pandemic
It may have gone unnoticed with the Voice to Parliament referendum and the disability royal commission report, but Prime Minister...
How Israel underestimated Hamas’s intelligence capabilities – an expert reviews the evidence
Israel has a cutting-edge security technology industry and was (and still should be) considered to be the leading nation for...
Foe review: a Frankenstein tale of the not-so-distant future
Science fiction is never really about the future. The best sci-fi makes use of an imagined future world to provide...
AI is closer than ever to passing the Turing test for ‘intelligence’. What happens when it does?
Pexels/Google Deepmind, CC BY-SAIn 1950, British computer scientist Alan Turing proposed an experimental method for answering the question: can machines...
South Africa’s 2022 census missed 31% of people – big data could help in future
No census is ever exact: as academics Tom Moultrie and Rob Dorrington at the University of Cape Town have noted...
From ancient Jewish texts to androids to AI, a just-right sequence of numbers or letters turns matter into meaning
The power of putting basic elements in just the right order is key to both Jewish mysticism and computer coding....
NZ police are using AI to catch criminals – but the law urgently needs to catch up too
The use of artificial intelligence (AI) by New Zealand police is putting the spotlight on policing tactics in the 21st...
Dumbing down or wising up: how will generative AI change the way we think?
Information is a valuable commodity. And thanks to technology, there are millions of terabytes of it online. Artificial intelligence (AI)...
Technology is changing the lives of female lawyers, in ways that are bad as well as good
Shutterstock I can go to a hearing by Zoom or by phone, I absolutely love it – otherwise, I’d be...
