Twitter’s ban almost doubled attention for Biden misinformation
The news: When Twitter banned, and then unbanned, links to a questionably sourced New York Post article about Joe Biden’s...
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AI that scans a construction site can spot when things are falling behind
Construction sites are vast jigsaws of people and parts that must be pieced together just so at just the right...
Facebook and Twitter’s no-win situation over Biden
After months of experts’ expecting another hack-and-leak operation in the lead-up to Election Day, a strange story appeared in the New...
A radical new technique lets AI learn with practically no data
Machine learning typically requires tons of examples. To get an AI model to recognize a horse, you need to show...
Congress was warned over QAnon. Hours later, Trump boosted it.
The news: In a 90-minute virtual US congressional hearing hosted by the House Intelligence Committee on Thursday, representatives took stock...
Live facial recognition is tracking kids suspected of being criminals
In a national database in Argentina, tens of thousands of entries detail the names, birthdays, and national IDs of people...
Congress made a lousy case for breaking up Big Tech
The long-awaited tech antitrust report that the US Congress released on October 6 presents a remarkably flimsy case for action...
Election result delays mean “the system is working,” says cybersecurity chief
With an unprecedented number of Americans voting by mail this year, it may take longer than normal for results to...
Inside the strange new world of being a deepfake actor
In 2019, two multimedia artists, Francesca Panetta and Halsey Burgund, set about to pursue a provocative idea. Deepfake video and...
Explainer: What “poll watching” really means
President Trump is trying to recruit an “army” of poll watchers for Election Day. As part of his ongoing disinformation...
A VR film/game with AI characters can be different every time you watch or play
The square-faced, three-legged alien shoves and jostles to get at the enormous plant taking over its tiny planet. But each...
How an AI tool for fighting hospital deaths actually worked in the real world
In November of 2018, a new deep-learning tool went online in the emergency department of the Duke University Health System....
Trump just got a dose of Regeneron’s unapproved antibody drug for covid
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, tested positive for covid-19 and within 24 hours had received an experimental,...
This scientist made a Google Doc to educate the public about airborne coronavirus transmission
The evidence that the coronavirus spreads through the air has been mounting for months. However, the official guidance from the...
The Outcome: A newsletter about making the election safe again
Elections are a technology. I don’t mean just that they rely on technology, although cybersecurity, voter data, misinformation, and online...
How to plan your life during a pandemic
The covid-19 pandemic shocked the world and generated high levels of economic, political, and social uncertainty. And for many people,...
These weird, unsettling photos show that AI is getting smarter
Of all the AI models in the world, OpenAI’s GPT-3 has most captured the public’s imagination. It can spew poems,...
How close is AI to decoding our emotions?
Researchers have spent years trying to crack the mystery of how we express our feelings. Pioneers in the field of...
