Timothy Revell
New Scientist
United Kingdom
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The essential guide to the algorithms that run your life
From shaping what we read and buy to diagnosing illness, algorithms play a key role in every aspect of our lives. Here’s what you need to know about the most important ones → Read More
The New Scientist Photography Awards 2021 are now open for entries
Are you a budding photographer? Our New Scientist Photography Awards 2021 are now open and will celebrate images that illustrate how science and technology impact our lives and the world around us → Read More
Kate Crawford interview: How AI is exploiting people and the planet
Beyond the headline breakthroughs, artificial intelligence is a global industrial complex. Having explored its political and social implications, Kate Crawford at Microsoft Research is now focusing on the infrastructure underpinning AI → Read More
Demis Hassabis interview: Our AI will unlock secrets of how life works
DeepMind's co-founder says artificial intelligence is set to crack many of the toughest problems in science, from the nature of life to nuclear fusion → Read More
David Attenborough’s A Life on Our Planet is a powerful call to action
David Attenborough’s highly personal new documentary A Life On Our Planet allows the nature filmmaker to say what he really thinks about our destructive ways → Read More
Risky Talk podcast: How to protect yourself from dodgy statistics
Everything from genetic tests to immigration numbers is full of shaky statistics. David Spiegelhalter's new podcast helps separate the factual from the flaky → Read More
Risky Talk review: How to protect yourself from dodgy statistics
Everything from genetic tests to immigration numbers is full of shaky statistics. David Spiegelhalter's new podcast helps separate the factual from the flaky → Read More
The Invisible Man: How science can really make things invisible
A new movie reimagines H.G. Wells's novel The Invisible Man. We still can't make people invisible, but it is possible to make tiny objects completely disappear → Read More
IBM is using quantum computers to generate Minecraft-like game levels
IBM is using quantum computers to help generate video game scenes. The technology is still in its infancy but could result in more interesting or varied game levels → Read More
Facebook must come clean and hand over election campaign data
After fake news and election manipulation scandals, Facebook promised to give researchers data on its political influence. They are still waiting, says Timothy Revell → Read More
Humans should worry us more than machines, says founding father of AI
Yoshua Bengio is one of the pioneering developers of artificial intelligence and winner of computing’s "Nobel prize". His optimism about machines doesn’t extend to humanity → Read More
NASA has chosen the landing site for its life-hunting 2020 Mars rover
Jezero crater on Mars is thought to have once had a river flowing along its rim and could hold signs of ancient life → Read More
Winners of the astronomy photo prize reveal the beauty of the universe
Brad Goldpaint has won Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2018 thanks to a fantastic image of the Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy above the Grand Canyon → Read More
Electric chewing gum zaps your tongue to create a virtual flavour hit
An 'unlimited chewing gum' uses an electric charge to trick you into experiencing flavours – and they don’t fade in the way chewing gum flavour usually does → Read More
Mind-reading devices can now access your thoughts and dreams using AI
We can now decode dreams and recreate images of faces people have seen, and everyone from Facebook to Elon Musk wants a piece of this mind reading reality → Read More
New Scientist Live: what it’s like to be an explorer in the modern age
Astronaut Tim Peake will discuss life as a modern-day explorer with tribe expert Will Millard and Antarctic skier Nics Wetherill at New Scientist Live → Read More
AIs are being tested to see how well they understand our thoughts
A new set of demanding tests for artificial intelligence has been created to probe its theory of mind. No AI has passed it yet, but one was extremely close → Read More
Facebook to tell 4 million users their data may have been misused
Facebook will notify 4 million users of potential data misuse because of the myPersonality project. A New Scientist investigation revealed the scandal earlier this year → Read More
It’s too soon to tell if robots help autistic children’s social skills
A US study is the latest to suggest robots could help autistic children learn social skills. Unfortunately, it's far from proven → Read More
Genoa bridge collapse – what went wrong and are other bridges at risk?
A large portion of motorway bridge in Genoa, Italy has collapsed killing 38 people. Here’s what we know so far about what went wrong → Read More