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Pen-Based Computing: Still Looking For The Write App
The sector, once popular, is searching for applications and users.
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Federal Regulators Fine Amazon $25 Million Over Child Privacy Issues
The company also was hit with a second fine over Ring, its home surveillance company.
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See Why AI Like ChatGPT Has Gotten So Good, So Fast
We asked three AI systems to generate content using the same prompt. The results illustrate how quickly the technology has advanced.
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E.U. Slaps Meta With Record $1.3 Billion Fine for Data Privacy Violations
Industry representatives argue the ruling creates legal uncertainty for many companies who commonly transfer data across international waters.
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Supreme Court Rules for Google, Twitter in Closely Watched Cases
The Court ruled the families of terrorism victims had not shown the companies "aided and abetted" attacks on their loved ones.
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Patients Were Told Their Voices Could Disappear. They Turned to AI to Save them.
Artificial intelligence can re-create voices that may have otherwise been lost to disease.
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They Thought Loved Ones Were Calling for Help. It Was an AI Scam
More sophisticated artificial intelligence (AI) tools are being used to replicate a person's voice.
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The Race to Beat Elon Musk to Put Chips in People's Brains
Companies like Paradromics and Synchron are competing with Elon Musk's Neuralink to design a brain implant that can communicate with computers.
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Microsoft's AI Chatbot is Going Off the Rails
Big Tech is heralding chatbots as the next frontier. Why did Microsoft's start accosting its users?
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The Biden National Cyber Strategy is Unlike Any Before It
Regulation is on the menu of a national cybersecurity strategy.
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Humans vs. Robots: The Battle Reaches a 'Turning Point'
Warehouse robots increasingly are able to grasp and sort objects of various shapes and sizes with the dexterity of human hands.
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TSA Now Wants to Scan Your Face at Security. Here are Your Rights.
16 major domestic airports are testing facial recognition tech to verify IDs — and it could go nationwide in 2023.
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Elon Musk Takes Over Twitter, Declares 'The Bird is Freed'
Musk wants to grow the platform, but he also wants it to be a free speech free-for-all.
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How TikTok Ate the Internet
The world's most popular app has pioneered a new age of instant attention. Can we trust it?
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AI Can Now Create Any Image in Seconds
Researchers worry these systems produce images that can cause a range of harms, such as reinforcing racial and gender stereotypes or plagiarizing artists without...
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The Robots Are Here, And Making You Fries
Meet Flippy, Sippy and Chippy, the newest technology stepping in to address a protracted labor crunch in food service.
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Scams Are Showing Up at the Top of Online Searches
Searchers, beware: That Google, Bing, or DuckDuckGo ad might be 'malvertising'—phishing campaigns and malware hiding behind legit-looking links.
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This Robot Catches Grandma Before She Falls
A mobile robot balance assistant developed by scientists at Singapore's Nanyang Technological University can anticipate and catch seniors before they fall.
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FEC Greenlights Google Plan to Loosen Spam Filters, Overcoming Democratic Challenge
Under the pilot program, campaigns would be able to circumvent algorithmic sorting by tech companies that at times sends their emails to spam.
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Instagram Rolls Out Age Verification, but Not to Keep Children Off App
Photo- and video-sharing platform Instagram has started using age verification tools to prevent account holders under 18 years old from changing their ages to over...
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