Blog & Actualités

Insights & Actualités Tech

Découvrez nos derniers articles sur le développement web, le design et les technologies digitales qui façonnent l'avenir

Recherche pour : "China"
Effacer les filtres
Humanoid data

Humanoid data

I was recently invited to join an app that would pay me cryptocurrency to film myself doing tasks like putting food into a bowl, microwaving it, and then taking it out. Another website suggested I try a new game in which I’d remotely control a robotic arm in Shenzhen, China, as it completed...

Chinese tech workers are starting to train their AI doubles–and pushing back

Chinese tech workers are starting to train their AI doubles–and pushing back

Tech workers in China are being instructed by their bosses to train AI agents to replace them—and it’s prompting a wave of soul-searching among otherwise enthusiastic early adopters.  Earlier this month a GitHub project called Colleague Skill, which claimed workers could use it to “distill”...

The Download: bad news for inner Neanderthals, and AI warfare’s human illusion

The Download: bad news for inner Neanderthals, and AI warfare’s human illusion

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The problem with thinking you’re part Neanderthal There’s a theory that many of us have an “inner Neanderthal.” The idea is that Homo sapiens and a...

The Download: cyberscammers’ banking bypasses, and carbon removal troubles

The Download: cyberscammers’ banking bypasses, and carbon removal troubles

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Cyberscammers are bypassing banks’ security with illicit tools sold on Telegram  Inside a money-laundering center in Cambodia, an employee...

Why having “humans in the loop” in an AI war is an illusion

Why having “humans in the loop” in an AI war is an illusion

The availability of artificial intelligence for use in warfare is at the center of a legal battle between Anthropic and the Pentagon. This debate has become urgent, with AI playing a bigger role than ever before in the current conflict with Iran. AI is no longer just helping humans analyze...

The Download: NASA’s nuclear spacecraft and unveiling our AI 10

The Download: NASA’s nuclear spacecraft and unveiling our AI 10

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. NASA is building the first nuclear reactor-powered interplanetary spacecraft. How will it work?  Just before Artemis II began its historic...

Cyberscammers are bypassing banks’ security with illicit tools sold on Telegram

Cyberscammers are bypassing banks’ security with illicit tools sold on Telegram

From inside a money-laundering center in Cambodia, an employee opens a popular Vietnamese banking app on his phone. The app asks him to upload a photo associated with the account, so he clicks on a picture of a 30-something Asian man. Next, the app requests to open the camera for a video “liveness”...

No one’s sure if synthetic mirror life will kill us all

No one’s sure if synthetic mirror life will kill us all

For four days in February 2019, some 30 synthetic biologists and ethicists hunkered down at a conference center in Northern Virginia to brainstorm high-risk, cutting-­edge, irresistibly exciting ideas that the National Science Foundation should fund. By the end of the meeting, they’d landed on a...

The Download: the state of AI, and protecting bears with drones

The Download: the state of AI, and protecting bears with drones

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Want to understand the current state of AI? Check out these charts.  If you’re following AI news, you’re probably...