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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Pirate Bay Unveils Ambitious New Software Scheme to Foil Anti-Piracy Measures
The Pirate Bay is developing a tool designed to thwart copyright enforcers.
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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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Barons of Bitcoin: The Tokyo-Based Powerhouse that Controls the World's Virtual Money
The virtual currency Bitcoin isn't backed by any assets or central authority.
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