How Netflix Personalises Your Thumbnail Artwork To Keep You Watching
Netflix analyses the media you most like to consume to build a tailored experience throughout, including which thumbnail artwork will do well to grab your attention.
Creeping On Instagram Is About To Get Much Tougher
Instagram has introduced some changes, as well as new algorithms, aimed at providing greater security to users wanting to avoid creeps.
A Step-By-Step Look At How Artificial Superintelligence Could Destroy Humanity
Artificial superintelligence is very much possible, and our objection that smart computers simply won’t have the means or motivation to end humanity is deemed naive by some.
A List Of The Frightening Ways Google Tracks You (And What You Can Do About It)
We all know that Google tracks us. What you might not know is that you can actually do something about it.
This Computer-Generated Portrait Sold For R6,3 Million
A painting of a European man, generated by AI, has fetched 43 times more than its estimated value at a Christie’s auction. But is it art?
Read This Before You Click No To A Facebook Event
Thanks to some naughty algorithms, publicly deciding not to attend an event can have some unintended consequences. Something to bear in mind going forward.
The LA Times Has Robots Writing Articles For Them Now
After a 4.4 magnitude quake shook Californians awake in the early hours of 17 March, the LA Times were the first to report the incident, mere minutes after it was announced by the U.S. Geological Survey. You might be thinking it sounds faster than humanly possible. Well, yes. It was written by Quakebot.