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Silicon Valley Finally Pushes for Data Privacy Laws at Senate Hearing
At a U.S. Senate Commerce Committee hearing on Wednesday, technology industry representatives argued in favor of implementing federal data privacy laws.
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Franken-algorithms: The Deadly Consequences of npredictable Code
The death of a woman hit by a self-driving car highlights an unfolding technological crisis, as code piled on code creates 'a universe no one fully understands'...
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Amazon Face Recognition Falsely Matches 28 Lawmakers With Mugshots, ACL Says
A test of Amazon's facial recognition software incorrectly matched the faces of 28 U.S. legislators to images in a mugshot database.
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Holograms: Are They Still the Preserve of Science Fiction?
The fragile apparition endured only long enough to say: "Help me Obi Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope" before flickering out.
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What Is GDPR and How Will It Affect You?
You could be forgiven for thinking that Europe's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a law created to fill your inbox with identikit warnings from every...
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Google DeepMind's AI Learns Human Navigation Skills
Google's DeepMind unit has developed an algorithm that outperforms people in solving a virtual maze.
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Scientists Plan European AI Hub to Compete With .S.
Europe's leading scientists have crafted plans for a multinational European institute for artificial intelligence research.
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Has Dopamine Got s Hooked on Tech?
In an unprecedented attack of candour, Sean Parker, the 38-year-old founding president of Facebook, recently admitted that the social network was founded not to...
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Blockchain Is This Year's Buzzword, But Can It Outlive the Hype?
The speculation around cryptocurrencies has obscured the fact that blockchain, the decentralised, open-source ledger that drives bitcoin, could radically change...
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Strava Suggests Military sers 'opt Out' of Heatmap as Row Deepens
Fitness-tracking company Strava has defended its publication of heatmaps that accidentally reveal sensitive military positions, arguing that the information was...
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Three Quarters of Android Apps Track sers With Third Party Tools
More than 75% of Android applications contain at least one third-party tracking tool.
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Could Virtual Reality Replace Therapy?
Psychologists are testing virtual reality systems as a therapeutic tool for phobias and disorders.
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Robots Could Destabilise World Through War and nemployment, Says n
The UN has warned that robots could destabilise the world ahead of the opening of a headquarters in The Hague to monitor developments in artificial intelligence...
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Collection of Letters By Codebreaker Alan Turing Found in Filing Cabinet
The correspondence, dating from 1949 to 1954, was found by an academic in a storeroom at the University of Manchester.
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End of the Checkout Line: The Looming Crisis For American Cashiers
The day before a fully automated grocery store opened its doors in 1939, the inventor Clarence Saunders took out a full page advertisement in the Memphis Press-Scimitar...
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'anonymous' Browsing Data Can Be Easily Exposed, Researchers Reveal
A German journalist and data scientist say they were able to easily obtain the "anonymous" online browsing information of more than 3 million Germans.
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Google Enters Race For Nuclear Fusion Technology
Google Research and Tri Alpha Energy have developed a computer algorithm called Optometrist that facilitates integrating high-powered computation with human judgment...
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Beauty Spot or Landscape Blot? Computer Trained to Judge Scenery
New software that can differentiate scenic views from blots on the landscape.
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AI Programs Exhibit Racial and Gender Biases, Research Reveals
Researchers at the University of Bath and Princeton University have demonstrated an artificial intelligence tool that enables computers to interpret everyday language...
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