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Amazon To Go Head to Head with SpaceX in a Battle for Satellite Internet Dominance
In its bid to catch up with Starlink, the company plans to build as many as four satellites a day.
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Google Just Launched Bard, its Answer to ChatGPT—and it Wants You to Make It Better
Under pressure from its rivals, Google is updating the way we look for information by introducing a sidekick to its search engine
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How to Create, Release, and Share Generative AI Responsibly
Companies including OpenAI and TikTok have signed up to a new set of guidelines designed to help them be more transparent around generative AI.
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How Rust Went from a Side Project to the World's Most-Loved Programming Language
For decades, coders wrote critical systems in C and C++. Now they turn to Rust.
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Why You Shouldn't Trust AI Search Engines
The technology is simply not ready to be used like this at this scale.
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What's Next for the Chip Industry
Aggressive new U.S. policies will be put to the test in 2023. They could ultimately fragment the global semiconductor industry.
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Uber's Facial Recognition is Locking Indian Drivers Out of their Accounts
Uber checks that a driver's face matches what the company has on file through a program called "Real-Time ID Check."
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Twitter May Have Lost More than a Million Users Since Musk Took Over
Estimates from Bot Sentinel suggest more than 875,000 users deactivated their accounts between October 27 and November 1, while a half-million more were suspended...
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House-Flipping Algorithms are Coming to Your Neighborhood
Despite millions of dollars in losses, iBuying's failure doesn't signal the end of tech-led disruption, just a fumbled beginning.
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Spilling Silicon Valley's Secrets, One Tweet at a Time
Using only her own ability to engineer code, Jane Manchun Wong is keeping tech on its toes.
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Defense Department Issuing AI Ethics Guidelines for Tech Contractors
The controversy over Project Maven shows the department has a serious trust problem. This is an attempt to fix that.
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Brain Implants Could Be the Next Computer Mouse
What the world's fastest brain-typist is telling us about the future of computer interfaces.
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Some Artists Found a Lifeline Selling NFTs. Others Worry It's a Trap
Artists are jumping into a market that will pay thousands for their work. But they're running into scams, environmental concerns, and crypto hype.
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How AI Could Solve Supply Chain Shortages and Save Christmas
Just-in-time shipping is dead. Long live supply chains stress-tested with AI digital twins.
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AI Has Cracked a Key Mathematical Puzzle for Understanding Our World
Partial differential equations can describe everything from planetary motion to plate tectonics, but they're notoriously hard to solve.
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2021 has Broken the Record for Zero-Day Hacking Attacks
The reasons why are complicated—and not all bad news.
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We Tested AI Interview Tools. Here's What We Found.
One gave our candidate a high score for English proficiency when she spoke only in German.
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Using ML to Build Maps That Give Smarter Driving Advice
Scientists used machine learning to develop an automatic mapping service that can enhance traffic management with greater intelligence.
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We Investigated Whether Digital Contact Tracing Actually Worked in the U.S.
A year ago, engineers built apps to track potential virus exposure. Our research shows the impact has been mixed—but there's still potential.
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