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Supersmart satellites reveal crops and fields like never before

7 June 2016

Tech start-ups are putting cameras in orbit to monitor everything from flood damage to crop yield with greater frequency and detail than ever before

A military mine by any other name

25 May 2016

One Per Cent

4 May 2016

IndIan cellphones get panic button, is the NSA is watching Wikipedia? and let your brain race the drone

How can we keep aircraft safe from future drone strikes?

18 April 2016

The suspected drone collision with a passenger plane at Heathrow airport could accelerate regulation and herald the rise of geo-fencing technology

Creating a buzz

13 April 2016

If humans stopped taking honey from all beehives, how would this affect the world...

Submarine-hunting drones take off and land on water vertically

6 April 2016

Solar-powered and equipped with sonar, a new breed of marine drone that can operate even in stormy weather may soon be used by the US navy to scan the seas

AI helps answer thousands of health queries in Zambia via SMS

4 April 2016

UNICEF is testing a machine learning system to boost the quantity and quality of health advice provided via a popular text-based service in Zambia and Uganda

One Per Cent

2 March 2016

Humanoid robot walks over slippery ground and Facebook's AI hits the books

How Astro Noise show interrogates the world of surveillance

1 March 2016

Art shows about surveillance are a dime a dozen in New York, but this exhibition by film-maker Laura Poitras goes for the jugular, finds Brendan Byrne

Facebook can map more of Earth in a week than we have in history

24 February 2016

Facebook’s incredible mapping feat shows that neural networks are starting to do serious volumes of work seriously fast. Here’s why it matters