Facebook wants to make AI better by asking people to break it
The explosive successes of AI in the last decade or so are typically chalked up to lots of data and...
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Why people might never use autonomous cars
Automated driving is advancing all the time, but there’s still a critical missing ingredient: trust. Host Jennifer Strong meets engineers...
A patient has died after ransomware hackers hit a German hospital
For the first time ever, a patient’s death has been linked directly to a cyberattack. Police have launched a “negligent...
Americans won’t be able to download TikTok or WeChat from Sunday
What’s happening? The US Commerce Department has issued an order banning Americans from downloading Chinese-owned apps TikTok and WeChat; it’s...
From support function to growth engine: The future of AI and customer service
When it comes to imagining the future, customer service often gets painted in a dystopian light. Take the 2002 sci-fi...
Why kids need special protection from AI’s influence
Algorithms can change the course of children’s lives. Kids are interacting with Alexas that can record their voice data and...
New standards for AI clinical trials will help spot snake oil and hype
The news: An international consortium of medical experts has introduced the first official standards for clinical trials that involve artificial...
NASA will pay for moon rocks excavated by private companies
NASA announced today that it was seeking proposals from private companies interested in collecting samples from the moon and making...
The Russian hackers who interfered in 2016 were spotted targeting the 2020 US election
Russian military hackers responsible for cyberattacks against Democratic targets during the 2016 American election are now targeting over 200 organizations...
Facebook just invented … Facebook
Facebook unveiled a new product today called Facebook Campus: “a college-only space designed to help students connect with fellow classmates...
North Korean hackers steal billions in cryptocurrency. How do they turn it into real cash?
For years, North Korea’s Kim dynasty has made money through criminal schemes like drug trafficking and counterfeiting cash. In the...
Why Facebook’s political-ad ban is taking on the wrong problem
When Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook would stop accepting political advertising in the week before the US presidential election, he was responding to widespread fear that social...
In defense of California
About a year after graduating from college, I packed my possessions into a rental van I’d split with a near...
What’s missing from corporate statements on racial injustice? The real cause of racism.
On August 31, Airbnb launched Project Lighthouse, an initiative meant to “uncover, measure, and overcome discrimination” on the home-sharing platform....
Eight case studies on regulating biometric technology show us a path forward
Amba Kak was in law school in India when the country rolled out the Aadhaar project in 2009. The national...
This know-it-all AI learns by reading the entire web nonstop
Back in July, OpenAI’s latest language model, GPT-3, dazzled with its ability to churn out paragraphs that look as if...
IBM has built a new drug-making lab entirely in the cloud
The news: IBM has built a new chemistry lab called RoboRXN in the cloud. It combines AI models, a cloud...
Elon Musk’s Neuralink is neuroscience theater
Rock-climb without fear. Play a symphony in your head. See radar with superhuman vision. Discover the nature of consciousness. Cure...
