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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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Algorithms Quietly Run the City of DC—and Maybe Your Hometown
A new report finds that municipal agencies in Washington deploy dozens of automated decision systems, often without residents' knowledge.
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The 'Viral' Secure Programming Language That's Taking Over Tech
Rust makes it impossible to introduce some of the most common security vulnerabilities. And its adoption can't come soon enough.
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The Sci-Fi Dream of a 'Molecular Computer' Is Getting More Real
Chemists have long conceptualized tiny machines that could fabricate drugs, plastics, and other polymers that are hard to build with bigger tools.
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Bot Hunting Is All About the Vibes
At the heart of every bot-detection tool is a human's gut feeling—and all the messiness that comes with it.
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Amazon Wants to Cocoon You With 'Ambient Intelligence'
The company's new smart gadget uses radar to track your breathing while you sleep. It's part of Amazon's plan to weave its products invisibly into your life.
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Electric Vehicles Could Rescue the Power Grid
By 2035, the batteries in California's zero-emission cars could power every home in the state for three days.
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Everything Apple Announced
Wednesday's iPhone launch event saw the release of four new iPhone models, plus an Apple Watch built to take a beating.
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The Low Threshold for Face Recognition in New Delhi
Police in India's capital say they only require an 80% accuracy rate for matches, raising new alarm bells for civil liberty advocates.
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Sloppy Use of Machine Learning Is Causing a 'Reproducibility Crisis' in Science
AI hype has researchers in fields from medicine to sociology rushing to use techniques they don't always understand—causing a wave of spurious results.
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The Hacking of Starlink Terminals Has Begun
Lennert Wouters at Belgium's Katholieke Universiteit Leuven hacked SpaceX's Starlink network.
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NASA is Crowdsourcing Cloud Research--on Mars
Scientists have recruited volunteers to identify clouds on Mars through the Zooniverse, a platform that hosts crowdsourced citizen projects.
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Crypto and the U.S. Government Are Headed for a Decisive Showdown
The Securities and Exchange Commission accused Ishan Wahi, a former product manager at the Coinbase cryptocurrency exchange, of insider trading and securities fraud...
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Datacenters Are Facing Climate Crisis
With studies predicting more extreme weather in the coming years, datacenters need to be prepared.
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Cruise's Robot Car Outages Are Jamming Up San Francisco
In a series of incidents, the GM subsidiary lost contact with its autonomous vehicles, leaving them frozen in traffic and trapping human drivers.
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The Fight Over Which Uses of AI Europe Should Outlaw
A new European Union law will set rules for what the technology can and can't do to people, like whether it's okay to deploy lie detectors at borders.
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'Supercookies' Have Privacy Experts Sounding the Alarm
Vodafone is among the German phone companies participating in the TrustPid trial.
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The U.S. Military Is Building Its Own Metaverse
Defense tech companies have latched on to the metaverse hype—but what they're building will be a far cry from Meta's virtual world.
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Companies Are Hacking Their Way Around the Chip Shortage
The supply chain issues have no end in sight, so manufacturers are being forced to improvise.
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Tension Inside Google Over a Fired AI Researcher's Conduct
Google employees claim a senior researcher fired earlier this year sought to undermine two more junior AI researchers by suggesting their results were wrong or...
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