Internet
The European Data Protection Board said Wednesday it had adopted a binding decision that will ban Facebook and Instagram owner Meta from using the personal data of users for targeted ads without their explicit consent.
Nov 1, 2023
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Machine learning & AI
Delegates from 28 nations, including the U.S. and China, agreed Wednesday to work together to contain the potentially "catastrophic" risks posed by galloping advances in artificial intelligence.
Nov 1, 2023
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Security
The Associated Press news website experienced an outage that appeared to be consistent with a denial-of-service attack, a federal criminal act that involves flooding a site with data in order to overwhelm it and knock it ...
Nov 1, 2023
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Hardware
Researchers at the City University of Hong Kong found the secret to a more efficient, less expensive approach to keeping massive computer systems cool: Just add salt.
Business
New research from the University of Oregon and Western University has shed more light on the social effects of large corporations working directly with smaller, overseas manufacturers to make their processes more climate ...
Nov 1, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
In a study published in Nature, researchers from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science (HFIPS) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have proposed a new and promising method of fabricating homogenized perovskite films for ...
Nov 1, 2023
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Business
A lengthy executive order on artificial intelligence signed Monday by President Joe Biden is expected to give a big boost to AI development in Silicon Valley.
Nov 1, 2023
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Business
Retraining Alberta's oil and gas workers for the solar industry costs far less than you think. The results of our new study clearly show that a rapid transition to sustainable energy production is feasible, as costs of retraining ...
Nov 1, 2023
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Business
The former head of search at Alphabet Inc."s Google told colleagues in February 2019 that his team was "getting too involved with ads for the good of the product and company," according to emails shown at the Justice Department's ...
Nov 1, 2023
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Business
Google has revealed plans to trim dozens of jobs in the Bay Area in a fresh round of job cuts—but these most recent reductions represent a tiny fraction of the layoffs the tech titan had disclosed early this year.
Nov 1, 2023
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