Victoria Turk
Journalist at Freelance
Journalist focusing on tech and longform. Formerly @restofworld, @WiredUK, @NewScientist, @Motherboard. Email: vturk.writes@gmail (no PR please!)
Articles
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3 weeks ago |
observer.co.uk | Victoria Turk
A startup working on tactile robotic “skin”, allowing machines to feel objects rather than relying on vision, is among nine projects that received £23.3m in government funding to solve the problem of robot dexterity. Advances in computer vision have allowed robots to “see”, and companies such as Boston Dynamics have manufactured bipedal machines capable of walking, climbing stairs and doing parkour.
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1 month ago |
maharlikanews.com | Victoria Turk
Only members of Psst’s in-house legal team can access information in the safe. In countries including the US and UK, communications between lawyers and their clients usually benefit from legal privilege, meaning the information is kept confidential. This is one reason tech companies have such large legal departments, says Gibson, who leads Psst’s in-house legal team: “They’re designed to put lawyers in the room so the information isn’t disclosable.
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1 month ago |
technewstube.com | Victoria Turk
Tech News Tube is a real time news feed of the latest technology news headlines.Follow all of the top tech sites in one place, on the web or your mobile device.
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1 month ago |
wired.com | Victoria Turk
Amber Scorah knows only too well that powerful stories can change society—and that powerful organizations will try to undermine those who tell them. In 2015, her 3-month-old son Karl died on his first day of day care. Heartbroken and furious that she hadn’t been with him, Scorah wrote an op-ed about the poor provision for parental leave in the US; her story helped New York City employees win their fight for improved family leave.
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2 months ago |
theatlantic.com | Victoria Turk
In at least one crucial way, AI has already won its campaign for global dominance. An unbelievable volume of synthetic prose is published every moment of every day—heaping piles of machine-written news articles, text messages, emails, search results, customer-service chats, even scientific research. Chatbots learned from human writing. Now the influence may run in the other direction.
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