British-Canadian AI expert Geoffrey Hinton wins Turing Award
Geoffrey Hinton shares this year’s award with two other leading figures in artificial intelligence.
Road safety: UK set to adopt vehicle speed limiters
The EU plans to make the technology mandatory from 2022 and the UK says it will follow suit.
Twitter birth-year hoax locks users out of accounts
The social network says that changing your birth year to 2007 won’t launch a colourful design on the site.
Aluminium firm cyber-attack cost at least £25.6m
Norsk Hydro is still recovering from the attack, with one part of the company remaining “at a standstill”.
Article 13: Memes exempt as EU backs controversial copyright law
Sharing memes and GIFs is still allowed under the new laws, after tweaks to allow “parody”.
Three-unique-words ‘map’ used to rescue mother and child
How three words – “weekend”, “foggy” and “earphones” – rescued a mother and child after a car crash.