Machine learning & AI
We do not know exactly what is going on inside the "brain" of artificial intelligence (AI), and therefore we are not able to accurately predict its actions. We can run tests and experiments, but we cannot always predict and ...
Sep 21, 2021
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Other
A pair of health and ethics scientists, one with the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, the other ETH Zurich, has published a Perspective piece in the journal Nature Machine Intelligence, discussing the ethics of researchers ...
Sep 17, 2021 report
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Security
Most Americans don't believe their personal information is secure online and aren't satisfied with the federal government's efforts to protect it, according to a poll.
Sep 16, 2021
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Business
DoorDash on Wednesday sued New York City over a measure requiring it and meal delivery rivals to share customer data with restaurants.
Sep 16, 2021
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Security
Hackers stole the personal data of around 1.4 million people who took COVID-19 tests in the Paris region in the middle of 2020, hospital officials in the French capital disclosed on Wednesday.
Sep 15, 2021
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Business
TikTok is facing two EU data privacy investigations, one into its handling of children's personal data and another over its data transfers to China.
Sep 15, 2021
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Engineering
Researchers have developed a real-time approach that can help prevent incidents like the large-scale disruption at London's Gatwick Airport in 2018, where possible drone sightings at the perimeter of the airport caused the ...
Sep 15, 2021
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Business
Chinese regulators have ordered sweeping changes to the country's biggest payment app Alipay, as the ruling Communist Party attempts to rein in "the unruly growth" of the tech giants.
Sep 13, 2021
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Security
After remaking their security procedures following the 9/11 attacks to stop airline hijackings, carriers are now faced with rising threats targeting computers and electronic equipment critical to their operations and safety.
Sep 11, 2021
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Internet
An international team of researchers is promoting the idea of using firmware to stop ransomware attacks before they can encrypt user data stored on a solid-state drive (SSD). The group presented their ideas back in 2018 at ...
Sep 10, 2021 report
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