Is it fair for a computer alone to accept or reject your job application? Welcome to the fast-growing world of AI recruitment.
A growing number of firms are using artificial intelligence to pass or fail jobseekers.
“The world of COVID-19 is going to need more and more automation to keep people safe,” Hanson Robotics founder David Hanson said.
Hanson Robotics says more automation is needed during the pandemic. It has now started mass production of its humanoid robot, Sophia.
A new discovery by researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) and its affiliated Soroka University Medical Center shows that medical cannabis may reduce blood pressure in older adults.
Microbe that Eats Arsenic Found
Posted in biological
Arsenic may be deadly to us, but now a microbe that can live and grow entirely off the poison has been discovered.
Artist Matthew Shlian creates intricate 3D paper sculpture that transforms into everyday material into dazzling tessellations that look like waves of spikes.
Million Miles
Posted in business, transportation
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Sperm are ‘ruthless competitors’ who aren’t above poisoning their brothers.
Mouse sperm carrying a genetic sequence called the t-haplotype will poison their competitors, then make an ‘antidote’ only for themselves, new research finds.
Revealed at the Future Investment Initiative in Riyad, the inflatable, environmentally controlled plant cultivation pod is intended to sustain flora beyond the earth’s surface.
“A hacker, who authorities believe to be the same one from the initial breach, took control of the computer and changed the acceptable level of sodium hydroxide — better known as lye, the main ingredient in many household drain cleaners — from 100 parts per million to 11100 parts per million. A water plant operator noticed immediately and corrected the change, Gualtieri said, adding that if the operator had missed it and the change didn’t trigger some of the plant’s alarms, the lye could have seeped into the water supply in 24 to 36 hours.”
A hacker broke into a Florida water treatment plant and ordered it to increase the amount of lye to extremely dangerous levels, officials said.
The Father Of The Cyborgs
Posted in biotech/medical, computing, cyborgs, neuroscience
“A famous neurologist Phil Kennedy made global headlines in the late 1990s for implanting wire electrodes in the brain of a ‘locked-in patient’ to control a computer cursor with their mind. Compared to Alexander Graham Bell in The Washington Post, Kennedy became known as ‘The Father of the Cyborgs’. Travelling to South America in 2014, he made further headlines when tiny electrodes were implanted inside his brain in order to continue his research. This film examines the ethical quandaries of self-experimentation and a future where technology and human brains combine.”
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