Amazon is the invisible backbone behind ICE’s immigration crackdown.
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France has passed its new Big Tech tax—and the US is not happy
Privacy advocates warn that innovation in satellite imagery is outpacing the ability to regulate the technology to prevent 24-hour real-time surveillance
London police’s face recognition system gets it wrong 81% of the time
A third CRISPR baby may have already been born in China – Another genetically edited baby is due, but the world may never learn of its birth if the Chinese government decides to keep it a secret.
We’ve already built too many power plants and cars to prevent 1.5 ˚C of warming
Machine learning has been used to automatically translate long-lost languages – Some languages that have never been deciphered could be the next ones to get the machine translation treatment.
The “neuropolitics” consultants who hack voters’ brains – MIT Technology Review
The Pentagon has a laser that can identify people from a distance—by their heartbeat
A look at the blossoming machine-learning community in Africa, where IBM and Google are trying to use AI to tackle challenges like hunger, poverty, and disease
The online advertising industry breaks the law, says the UK’s data watchdog
Deepfakes have got Congress panicking. This is what it needs to do. With the election approaching, lawmakers are facing up to the fact they need to do something about the explosion in manipulated media.
Space weather affects your daily life. It’s time to start paying attention. – Meet the space-weather forecaster leading the charge to help us understand solar flares and geomagnetic storms before it’s too late.
Deepfake-busting apps can spot even a single pixel out of place
Training a single AI model can emit as much carbon as five cars in their lifetimes – MIT Technology Review
The guy who made a tool to track women in porn videos is sorry
Sorry, FCC—killing net neutrality probably didn’t expand internet access: FCC chairman Ajit Pai had claimed that rosy broadband numbers showed his deregulation approach was working.
China publish more scientific articles than US.
Amazon is piloting new automated packing machines at its warehouses
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