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New York City Takes Aim at AI
The Big Apple fields an action plan for artificial intelligence.
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Amazon Is Already Selling Tons of Books Written by AI
"This is something we really need to be worried about, these books will flood the market and a lot of authors are going to be out of work."
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Hyundai, Kia Roll Out Software Patch That Makes Cars Harder to Steal
South Korean automakers Hyundai and Kia have issued a free software patch to owners of 8.3 million 2015-2019 models in order to thwart car thieves.
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German Constitutional Court Strikes Down Predictive Algorithms for Policing
The systems were deemed unconstitutional as they violated the right to informational self-determination.
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Software Gives Police Real-Time Access to 911 Calls
California-based HigherGround's Live911 software allows police to access 911 emergency calls in real time, reducing their response time.
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Love Bytes
Georgia State University researchers are exposing how scammers exploit dating applications to defraud victims.
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Ears on AI and Data
A round-up of podcasts focused on artificial intelligence and/or data.
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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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Microsoft's ChatGPT-Powered Bing Reveals Its Codename and Rules, Argues With Users
Bing Chat reveals its codename and many of the rules for how it should respond to prompts.
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Combating Disinformation Wanes at Social Media Giants
As the companies have shed jobs recently, many teams assigned to combat false and misleading information have taken a hit.
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Ambient IoT Gets Down to Business
Highly flexible, inexpensive low-energy sensors combined with pervasive connectivity and artificial intelligence deliver real-time triggers without human intervention...
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Researchers Discover a More Flexible Approach to Machine Learning
"Liquid" neural nets, based on a worm's nervous system, can transform their underlying algorithms on the fly, giving them unprecedented speed and adaptability. ...
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TikTok Reveals Russian Disinformation Network Targeting European Users
Accounts spread anti-Ukrainian messages in local languages.
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Harvard Shutting Down Project Studying Social Media Misinformation
Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government announced that next year it will close a research facility that studied online misinformation.
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Forensic Imaging Technology Helps Virtual Autopsies Outnumber Invasive Post-Mortem Procedures
Scientists in Australia say forensic imaging, augmented reality headsets, and artificial intelligence could reduce the necessity for invasive autopsies.
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Five Takeaways From the House G.O.P. Hearing With Former Twitter Executives
The Oversight Committee called the session to scrutinize whether the social media platform has censored the right, but it yielded new revelations about the company's...
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Study Reveals a Key Reason Fake News Spreads on Social Media
A study of more than 2,400 Facebook users indicates that platforms, rather than individual users, have a greater responsibility in curbing the dissemination of...
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Researchers Propose Fourth Light on Traffic Signals - for Self-Driving Cars
North Carolina State University researchers proposed the addition of a "white light" to traffic signals to allow autonomous vehicles to help control the flow of...
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Israeli Computer Scientist Helps Crack Secrets of Mary Queen of Scots' Lost Letters
Israeli computer scientist George Lasry led an international research team to decipher secret coded letters written by Mary, Queen of Scots, over four centuries...
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