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Supervised Self-Driving Shuttles Move COVID-19 Tests in Florida
Self-driving shuttles are transporting COVID-19 tests from a Jacksonville, FL, testing site to a Mayo Clinic processing location.
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The High Cost of a Free Coding Bootcamp
Students at Lambda School say the program hasn't delivered on its promise.
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Computer Virus Has Thrown Philadelphia's Court System Into Chaos
A computer virus has crippled Philadelphia's online court system for more than three weeks, raising issues about how cities can respond when essential services...
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It's Harder to Turn Off a Robot When It's Begging for Its Life
Researchers have found that people are very susceptible to social cues from machines, to the point that they will refrain from shutting off a robot that begs for...
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Wi-Fi Security Is Starting to Get its Biggest pgrade in Over a Decade
The Wi-Fi Alliance has begun certifying products that support WPA3, a major security advance over the WPA2 protocol that has been in use since 2004.
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New Toronto Declaration Calls on Algorithms to Respect Human Rights
"In a world of machine learning systems, who will bear accountability for harming human rights?"
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OLPC’s $100 Laptop was Going to Change the World — Then it All Went Wrong
It was supposed to be the laptop that saved the world.
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Facebook Is Trying to Teach Chatbots How to Chit-Chat
Researchers at Facebook's FAIR lab have developed Persona-Chat, a dataset of more than 160,000 lines of dialogue taken from workers on Amazon's Mechanical Turk...
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Trump Administration Wants to End Nasa Funding For Iss By 2025
The Trump administration is preparing to end support for the International Space Station program by 2025.
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China and the .s. Are Battling to Become the World’s First AI Superpower
"Right now, AI is a two-horse race between China and the US."
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Deepmind's Founder Says to Build Better Computer Brains, We Need to Look at Our Own
After decades in the wilderness, AI has swaggered back onto center stage.
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The Ftc Has Sued D-Link Over nsecure Routers and Webcams
Part of an ongoing effort to secure the Internet of Things.
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Wireless Alerts Sound For Nyc Bombing Suspect
New Yorkers' morning commute was interrupted this morning by a chorus of emergency alerts, part of a manhunt for bombing suspect Ahmad Khan Rahami.
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China's New Satellite Would Create the World's Largest Quantum Network
China's quantum network could soon span two continents, thanks to a satellite launched earlier today. Launched at 1:40PM ET, the Quantum Science Satellite is designed...
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Inventor of Email and Savior of the @ Sign, Ray Tomlinson, Is Dead at 74
The inventor of email suffered an apparent heart attack on Saturday, according to reports. He was 74 years old.
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Inside sc's Crazy Experimental Vr Lab
The technologies and techniques developed at the University of Southern California's Institute for Creative Technologies, launched in 1999 with a $45-million grant...
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How Baseball's Tech Team Built the Future of Television
It was the first week of April, 2015, and New York's Chelsea Market, typically packed with hordes of noisy tourists, was quiet. It was close to midnight, but five...
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Engineers of Addiction
You can play a slot machine in Las Vegas before you've even reached baggage claim: there are tiny slots parlors in every terminal of McCarran International Airport...
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How Google Scans Your Gmail For Child Porn
John Henry Skillern was arrested last Thursday for the possession of child pornography.
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