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The Download: CRISPR in court, and the police’s ban-skirting AI

10 Is your beard trimmer broken? Simply 3D-print a new part.Philips is experimenting with letting its customers create their own replacements. (The Verge) Quote of the day “We usually set it up... Read more »

Police tech can sidestep facial recognition bans now

Companies like Flock and Axon sell suites of sensors—cameras, license plate readers, gunshot detectors, drones—and then offer AI tools to make sense of that ocean of data (at last year’s conference I... Read more »

A US court just put ownership of CRISPR back in play

In patent law, this moment is known as conception—the instant a lightbulb appears over an inventor’s head, revealing a definite and workable plan for how an invention is going to function. In... Read more »

The Download: a new form of AI surveillance, and the US and China’s tariff deal

Police and federal agencies have found a controversial new way to skirt the growing patchwork of laws that curb how they use facial recognition: an AI model that can track people based... Read more »

How a new type of AI is helping police skirt facial recognition bans

“The whole vision behind Track in the first place,” says Veritone CEO Ryan Steelberg, was “if we’re not allowed to track people’s faces, how do we assist in trying to potentially identify... Read more »

How cloud and AI transform and improve customer experiences

Learn from the experts Digital transformation, from the ground up, starts by moving infrastructure and data to the cloud AI implementation requires a talent transformation at scale, across the organization AI is a company-wide... Read more »

The Download: AI headphone translation, and the link between microbes and our behavior

What’s new: Imagine going for dinner with a group of friends who switch in and out of different languages you don’t speak, but still being able to understand what they’re saying. This... Read more »

A new AI translation system for headphones clones multiple voices simultaneously

Spatial Speech Translation consists of two AI models, the first of which divides the space surrounding the person wearing the headphones into small regions and uses a neural network to search for... Read more »

Your gut microbes might encourage criminal behavior

The parasite is best known for changing the behavior of rodents in ways that make them easier prey—an infection seems to make mice permanently lose their fear of cats. Research in humans... Read more »

Did solar power cause Spain’s blackout?

Some key questions here are still unanswered. The order matters, for example. During that drop in generation, did wind and solar plants go offline first? Or did everything go down together? Whether... Read more »