Computer Science
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Arts & Culture
Your face is muted
In times of remote communication and notorious connection problems, how do we empathise with each other through the curtain of technology when non-verbal cues are missing?
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Politics & Society
Trump, nipples and the hypocrisy of the social media giants
It took a mob to attack the US Capitol before then President Trump’s incitement was banned by the social media companies, but these same companies routinely censor the marginalised
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Politics & Society
Podcast
The politics of hacking
Associate Professor Dunbar-Hester discusses the cultures and the communities of the digital era, with a focus on media and tech activists
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Health & Medicine
How ‘artificial societies’ are helping plan our COVID-19 response
Computational social science has come to the fore in the COVID-19 response, allowing policy makers to trial policies on ‘artificial societies’ and see the results – before doing it in real life
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Sciences & Technology
Machine learning to scale up the quantum computer
A machine learning framework has been created to precisely locate atom-sized quantum bits in silicon – a crucial step for building a large-scale silicon quantum computer
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Sciences & Technology
It’s time to retire Lena from computer science
Why has a pornographic image been widely used to train computer scientists and their algorithms? And what sort of message does it send to women?
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Sciences & Technology
Lifting the lid on quantum computing
Newly developed software for learning quantum computer programming allows students to see inside the ‘black box’ and start using the ‘weird’ physics to solve problems
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Sciences & Technology
What were you thinking?
We are increasingly relying on artificial intelligence for important decisions but we don’t know how those decisions are being made. We urgently need Explainable AI (XAI)
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Sciences & Technology
Quantum leap in computer simulation
Physicists have successfully run the largest quantum computing simulation to date, a key step in becoming quantum-ready
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Sciences & Technology
Q&A
Q&A: How algorithms are fighting epilepsy
Researchers are crowdsourcing mathematical whizzkids to help predict when a seizure might strike