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Multimodal AI Connects the Digital Dots
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To the Highest Bidder: A Military Database of Fingerprints, Iris Scans
Security researcher Matthias Marx successfully bid on eBay for a Secure Electronic Enrollment Kit, which contained the names, nationalities, photographs, fingerprints...
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Chat Bot Is 'Code Red' for Google's Search Business
Google's management issued a "code red" in response to the release of OpenAI's ChatGPT and its potential to disrupt the tech industry, and Google's search business...
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How Hackers Used One Software Flaw to Take Down a County Computer System
An information technology director was put on leave for negligence after Suffolk County officials released the results of their investigation.
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Brain Implants Have Begun to Restore Functions, but Advances Are Slow
But achieving full-body restoration of movement, as Elon Musk envisions with such devices, is considered far into the future, if at all.
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Japanese Company's Lunar Lander Launches to the Moon
The company, Ispace, is carrying a rover from the United Arab Emirates, a Japanese robot, and other cargo in its bid to possibly be the first commercial lander...
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The New Chatbots Could Change the World. Can You Trust Them?
Siri, Google Search, online marketing and your child's homework will never be the same. Then there's the misinformation problem.
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The Brilliance and Weirdness of ChatGPT
A new chatbot from OpenAI is inspiring awe, fear, stunts and attempts to circumvent its guardrails.
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