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Is it too late now to say Siri?
05 Oct 2017 -
Jack rabbits on
- Community Member 27 Sep 2017 -
For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of Jobs
- Community Member 21 Sep 2017
People are trying to work out why Siri thought Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee hit Despacito was the Bulgarian national anthem. But the chance to enjoy the error for yourself has come and gone. Indeed, ...
Twitter’s move to double its 140-character limit to 280 has been marked by CEO Jack Dorsey unwittingly composing the worst tweet of all time, in a failed mission to justify the merits of waffle. ...
Apple proudly claims it’s set the path of technology for the next decade with its iPhone X, but it would’ve been nice if it just did that with the one it announced half hour earlier. Instead, the ...
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eharmony and Alexa are officially an item
- Computer Weekly 07 Sep 2017 -
Activate living within its memes
31 Aug 2017 -
It'll be alt-right on the night
24 Aug 2017 -
Damore you talk, the less you say
16 Aug 2017 -
The simpler Burr necessities
10 Aug 2017 -
The ballad of Bob and Alice
02 Aug 2017 -
You don’t get to 500 million friends without steak and a few enemies
26 Jul 2017
“Let me tell you about your first match. Ooh la la! She lives five miles away!” You probably wouldn’t think Alexa would say something like that but now it can, thanks to some creative intervention ...
It’s hard to imagine any attempt to create a Tory answer to Momentum going very well, but the bumbling inception of Activate has exceeded all expectations of ineptitude. The all-new “independent ...
Calamitous alt-right website Breitbart has been tricked into an email exchange with a prankster posing as Donald Trump’s recently dumped adviser Steve Bannon. Under the guise of Bannon, back in the ...
James Damore thinks he was frogmarched out of Google for telling the truth. In reality, he wrote a 10-page memo, cobbled together from scraps of research chosen to fit his intense fear of gender ...
It has emerged we may have spent more than the past decade creating complicated, unmemorable passwords and changing them every few months for absolutely no reason. Bill Burr, the author of the ...
Previously on Downtime, we saw Mark Zuckerberg rule out AI’s potential for disaster with all the casual oblivion of a scientist in the opening part of a film of that very genre. Elon Musk, as ...
Some surprisingly vapid musings on the future of artificial intelligence (AI), live streamed by Mark Zuckerberg whilst smoking some brisket in his back garden, have been brushed aside by Elon Musk, ...
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Robocop splashed across Downtime
19 Jul 2017 -
Umbrella sharing start-up loses all its umbrellas
- Networking Editor 12 Jul 2017 -
Neural networks and guinea pigs: A credible use case for AI is finally here
- Senior Editor, UK 06 Jul 2017 -
Your robot overlords part 46: Software never lies
- Editor in chief 26 Jun 2017 -
End of the Piers humour
22 Jun 2017
An office building in Washington DC has lost its Knightscope K5 security robot after it obliviously face planted into the premises’ water fountain centrepiece. It’s the most ambitious television ...
To Shenzhen, China, where tech entrepreneur Zhao Shuping has had cold water poured on his business after his sharing economy start-up Sharing E Umbrella rented 300,000 umbrellas to damp locals, and ...
Despite the conjecture spouted about the usefulness of artificial intelligence (AI), what’s been sorely lacking (as far as Downtime is concerned) is that one killer use case that really captures ...
As we all know, software and artificial intelligence is going to run the world and make all the decisions on our behalf, probably starting from a week next Tuesday. Downtime has long felt it is our ...
It’s been over a year since US robotics designer David Hanson made Sophia an internet phenomenon with a video in which he accidentally prompts her to agree to destroy all humans. The UK got a ...