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Minecraft DDoS Attack Leaves Small European Country Without Internet
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IRS Wants to Scan Your Face
By this summer, Americans wanting to access their Internal Revenue Service records online will be required to submit a facial video to confirm their identity.
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Former Google Scientist Says the Computers that Run our Lives Exploit Us
Meet Hume AI, a potentially more humane way to let the machines in.
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The Battle to Prevent Another January 6 Features a New Weapon: The Algorithm
A year after the attack on the Capitol, data scientists say artificial intelligence can help forecast insurrection — with some big concerns.
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Is Artificial Intelligence About to Transform the Mammogram?
A Massachusetts Institute of Technology researcher who survived breast cancer has devised a technique that seems to predict many breast cancer cases.
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Why Facebook Won't Let You Control Your Own News Feed
Lawmakers want social networks to offer users a chronological timeline. Leaked documents help to explain why Facebook doesn't.
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The Next Generation of Home Robots will be More Capable — and Perhaps More Social
Tech titans and upstarts alike are working to deepen our relationships with their robots.
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Federal Government to Expand Use of Facial Recognition Despite Growing Concerns
Federal government to expand use of facial recognition despite growing concerns.
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Meet the Scientist Teaching AI to Police Human Speech
Facebook and Google have engineered artificial intelligence systems capable of understanding dozens of languages through the efforts of scientists like Alexis Conneau...
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Meet the Scientist Teaching AI to Police Human Speech
Alexis Conneau's work has helped Facebook and Google build artificial intelligence systems that can understand dozens of languages with startling accuracy.
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Buenos Aires Using Facial Recognition System That Tracks Child Suspects, Rights Group Says
Human Rights Watch says Buenos Aires is using a facial recognition system connected to a database that includes child suspects and is publishing warrants for their...
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Facebook Sent Home Thousands of Human Moderators Due to the Coronavirus. Now the Algorithms Are in Charge
Facebook has placed its army of human moderators on paid leave, forcing the company to police disinformation without them.
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Future of Autonomous Delivery May Be Unfolding in Suburban Houston
Robotics company Nuro has been field-testing delivery via autonomous vehicles (AV) in Houston.
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What Self-driving Cars Can’t Recognize May be a Matter of Life and Death
Engineers are racing to program artificial intelligence to recognize different scenarios that human drivers know inherently.
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Pentagon Advisory Board Releases Principles for Ethical Use of AI in Warfare
The U.S. Defense Innovation Board has published a set of ethical principles for how military agencies should design weapons enabled by artificial intelligence and...
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Autonomous Shuttles in Northern Virginia Suburb Show Why Future of Robot Cars Might Be Slow
Two companies have partnered on an autonomous shuttle service to transport commuters between a Metro station and locations in Reston, VA.
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Lawmakers Warn About Threat of Political Deepfakes by Creating One
Two U.S. congressmen created an artificial intelligence-doctored political video to demonstrate the threat such disinformation presents.
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People Do Grammar Bad. Google's AI is Hear Too Help.
Google has launched an artificial intelligence-powered tool that automatically detects grammar mistakes while messages are being composed in Gmail, and auto-corrects...
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Baseball's Robot mpires Are Here. You Might Not Notice the Difference.
The Atlantic League was the first U.S. professional baseball league to use a "robot" umpire, at its recent All-Star Game.
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Major League Baseball 'Robot mp' Calls 1st Professional Baseball Game with 1 Hitch, No Controversy
A computer in the press box communicated to the umpire whether each pitch was in or out of the strike zone, and the umpire relayed the calls to the field as usual...
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