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A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Hope, Fear, and AI
We polled 2,000 people about how they're using AI, what they want it to do, and what scares them about it the most.
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Microsoft Lays Off Team That Taught Employees How to Make AI Tools Responsibly
As the company accelerates its push into AI products, the ethics and society team is gone.
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Google Fiber's 5-gig Internet Service Starts Rolling Out in Three Cities
Google's Fiber home internet service now has a bidirectional 5 Gbps option in Kansas City, West Des Moines, and the Salt Lake City metropolitan area.
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Scientists Create Algae Computer Powered by Photosynthesis
Forget your water-cooled PC — this one runs on pond scum.
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Google Using AI to Update Business Hours on Google Maps
The predictions are run by humans along the way.
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DeepMind Says its New AI Coding Engine is As Good As an Average Human Programmer
AlphaCode is good, but not great — not yet.
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Winning the War on Ransomware
The DoJ's task force is changing the landscape around hackers, but will it be enough?
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Gaming Companies Should Avoid Predatory Designs, Lawmakers Say
Democrats press executives to extend new U.K. 'Age Appropriate Design Code' regulations to children in the U.S.
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Twitter's Photo-Cropping Algorithm Confirms Inherent Biases
Results from the company's AI bias competition reveals a preference for young, beautiful, and light-skinned faces
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DeepMind Creates 'Transformative' Map of Human Proteins Drawn by AI
DeepMind plans to release hundreds of millions of protein structures for free.
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The Autonomous Vehicle World is Shrinking — It's Overdue
'The AV industry has promised too much for too long, and has delivered too little'
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French Army Testing Boston Dynamics' Robot Dog Spot in Combat Scenarios
France's military has utilized robotics developer Boston Dynamics' four-legged Spot robot in training exercises, raising questions about the robot's future applications...
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Disney's Deepfakes Closer to Big-Screen Debut
Disney researchers have demonstrated what they described as the first photorealistic deepfake at megapixel resolution.
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Amazon Deploys AI 'Distance Assistants' to Notify Warehouse Workers if They Get Too Close
Amazon has deployed a new artificial intelligence tool to help employees follow social distancing rules.
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Andrew Yang Is Pushing Big Tech to Pay Users for Data
It's called the Data Dividend Project.
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IBM Will No Longer Offer, Develop, or Research Facial Recognition Technology
IBM's CEO says we should reevaluate selling the technology to law enforcement.
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Microsoft: We Were Wrong about Open Source
Microsoft has embraced open source and even Linux in recent years.
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Robot Helping Hospitals Remotely Treat Coronavirus
A robot is being used at Brigham and Women's Hospital of Harvard University to handle remote triage of patients suspected of having COVID-19.
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