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AI technology used to track asbestos cancer tumours

Patients receiving treatment for a rare cancer linked to asbestos exposure are being assessed with artificial intelligence in a pilot project. Scotland has the highest incidence of mesothelioma in ...

Four ways AI can help tackle climate change

2020 was a transformative year. It brought profound trials, tribulations and losses – but it has also highlighted the power of AI and other technologies to solve today’s most urgent cha...

Regulate AI or risk 'dehumanisation' at work, British unions say

AI algorithms are increasingly used in the hiring, firing and daily decisions of work life but the law has not kept up, according to a report by Britain's Trades Union Congress (TUC). Cases include A...

Bias in AI is a diversity problem. Here's how to solve it

Data scientists ‘train’ AI programs by feeding them with huge sets of data. The AI program can then make judgements, predictions and identify patterns based on this data. The controversy about usi...

How artificial intelligence may be making you buy things

The shopping lists we used to scribble on the back of an envelope are increasingly already known by the supermarkets we frequent. Firstly via the loyalty cards we scan at checkouts, and more and mo...

AI at work: Staff 'hired and fired by algorithm'

The Trades Union Congress (TUC) has warned about what it calls “huge gaps” in UK employment law over the use of artificial intelligence at work. 

The TUC said work...

Elon Musk's Neuralink 'shows monkey playing Pong with mind'

Neuralink, Elon Musk's computer to brain interface firm, has released a video it claims shows a monkey playing the video game Pong with its mind. Its brain signals were sent wirelessly via an i...

'By Africans, for Africans': Female entrepreneur pioneers facial recognition tech

Charlette N'Guessan Desiree loved maths and science as a student in Ivory Coast, but never imagined she would one day use her problem-solving savvy to develop facial recognition technology more...

Artificial intelligence diagnoses lung cancer

Artificial intelligence is better than specialist doctors at diagnosing lung cancer, a US study suggests. The researchers at Northwestern University in Illinois and Google hope the technology could...

What is AI? What does artificial intelligence do?

Artificial intelligence - or AI for short - is technology that enables a computer to think or act in a more 'human' way. It does this by taking in information from its surroundings, and dec...

The push towards artificial intelligence in Africa

Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the most exciting technologies today, and Africa doesn't want to be left behind. Today a majority of the AI industry is in North America, Europ...