Machine learning & AI
If you ask an AI image generator to give you a picture of something, the results can range from appropriate to clueless to downright offensive. It's particularly bad for cultures that aren't well represented in the Internet's ...
Jun 4, 2024
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Can people feel through the sense of touch in the absence of a real tactile stimulation? In other words, can we feel the sensation of being touched when in reality we are not? This is what is known as "phantom sensation," ...
May 29, 2024
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Security
Deepfakes are creating havoc across the globe, spreading fake news and pornography, being used to steal identities, exploiting celebrities, scamming ordinary people and even influencing elections.
May 22, 2024
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Consumer & Gadgets
This month the Australian government announced a A$6.5 million commitment to trial an age-verification program that will restrict children's exposure to inappropriate online content, including pornography and potentially ...
May 22, 2024
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Machine learning & AI
More than a dozen countries and some of the world's biggest tech firms pledged on Wednesday to cooperate against the potential dangers of artificial intelligence, including its ability to dodge human control, as they wrapped ...
May 22, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
The sharp drop in prices for minerals critical to the green energy transition is masking a looming shortage due to inadequate investment, the International Energy Agency said Friday.
May 17, 2024
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Internet
The internet is kind of like drinking water, says UC Berkeley Professor Nicole Starosielski. Most of us don't think much about how it's delivered to our houses or wherever we need it, until we can't get it.
May 9, 2024
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Business
On April 24, President Joe Biden signed a foreign aid package that included a security addendum—a ban of the popular China-based social media app TikTok unless its parent company is sold to an American firm within nine ...
May 1, 2024
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Business
Elon Musk on Friday came out against banning TikTok in the United States, even if it would mean less competition for his social media platform X, formerly Twitter, as the initiative sees fresh bipartisan momentum in Congress.
Apr 20, 2024
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Business
The US House of Representatives will again vote Saturday on a bill that would force TikTok to divest from Chinese parent company ByteDance or face a nationwide ban.
Apr 18, 2024
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