Ravi Somaiya

Vice News Tonight

This artist built his own AI to show how computers see the world

“They're images that are not for us. They're images for computers, and we don't see them, and in many cases, we don't have access to them,” Paglen said.
Ravi Somaiya
7.30.17
VICE News Tonight on HBO

Artificial intelligence is beating humanity at its own games

Google trained an artificial intelligence computer to play, and beat, one of the best human Go players in the world
Ravi Somaiya
6.6.17
VICE News Tonight on HBO

Kim Jong Un and his nuclear program can now be tracked by private satellites

Ravi Somaiya
5.22.17
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Why indictments in the Yahoo hack could be just political theater

Ravi Somaiya
3.17.17
VICE News Tonight on HBO

President Trump has a plan for space domination

Ravi Somaiya
3.1.17
Technology

Amazon says conversations with Alexa are protected by the first amendment in a murder case

Ravi Somaiya
2.23.17
VICE News Tonight on HBO

How an Amazon Echo could testify in an Arkansas murder trial

In Bentonville, Arkansas, the hometown of Walmart, a trial is about to begin over the mysterious death of a former police officer at a local residence. It may help decide an issue emerging in a connected world: whether prosecutors should be able to...
Ravi Somaiya
2.8.17
VICE News Tonight on HBO

Cerebral palsy patients are spending thousands on unproven stem cell therapies

Ravi Somaiya
12.7.16
VICE News Tonight on HBO

Take a ride in one of the world's first self-driving trucks

Experts predict self-driving trucks will hit the roads sooner and harder than self-driving cars.
Ravi Somaiya
11.1.16
Tech

The History of Emoji

Now basically ubiquitous, emoji started off in 1999. But the roots of the pictographic communications system go back much further...
Ravi Somaiya
10.31.16
VICE News Tonight on HBO

Here’s what the very first emoji looked like

Ravi Somaiya
10.28.16
VICE News Tonight on HBO

This 19-year-old student created a “robot lawyer” to get you out of parking tickets

He's overturned 190,000 fines so far.
Ravi Somaiya
10.26.16
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