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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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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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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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Connecticut Suburb Deploys 'Pandemic Drones' to Try to Enforce Social Distancing
The suburban town of Westport, CT, is deploying specialized police drones to yell at people who aren't standing six feet apart.
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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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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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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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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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The Plot to Kill the Password
Last Friday, Samsung's new Galaxy S5 arrived with an unexpected and underhyped feature.
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The Story of Cortana, Microsoft's Siri Killer
Technically, Cortana isn't supposed to exist for at least another 500 years, but that's not stopping Microsoft from bringing her to life this week.
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Broken News: Struggling to Find Facts in the Twitter Maelstrom
As with Hurricane Sandy, the Boston Marathon bombings, and countless other major stories, news of the shooting at the Los Angeles International Airport was sometimes...
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Watch Out, Wall Street: Report Says Tech Is Now Nyc's Second-Largest Sector
New York City's economy has traditionally been dominated by finance, real estate, and media.
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Machine Language: How Siri Found Its Voice
GM Voices is nestled on a rolling, leafy road in Alpharetta, Georgia, an affluent suburb of Atlanta.12