Computer Science

Fitness Fads and Their Environmental Price Tag

Tamzin Preece: The ‘home gym’ didn’t feature in many UK homes before the pandemic, but it’s now much more commonplace to own various bits of kit for home workouts. Within the first three months of lockdown alone, exercise bike sales rose…

AI Weapons Are the Third Revolution in Warfare

The Atlantic: On the 20th anniversary of 9/11, against the backdrop of the rushed U.S.-allied Afghanistan withdrawal, the grisly reality of armed combat and the challenge posed by asymmetric suicide terror attacks grow harder to ignore. But weapons technology has changed…

Brain-Inspired AI Will Enable Future Medical Implants

IEEE Spectrum: Artificial intelligence can identify subtle patterns in data, which is particularly useful in medicine. So far, these have been offline processes—doctors perform a medical test, and data from the test is run through a software program after. A real-time…

The UK thinks it can fix GDPR. It’s wrong

Wired UK: The UK has left the European Union. It’s left the single market. And now it wants to leave behind the rules that require companies protect your personal data. The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has its flaws,…