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Craigslist's Craig Newmark: 'Outrage is Profitable. Most Online Outrage is Faked for Profit'
The founder of the online classifieds site is a survivor of the era of Internet optimism. He rejects the idea his website helped cause journalism's financial crisis...
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New York School District's Facial Recognition System Sparks Privacy Fears
The Lockport, NY, city school district launch of a facial recognition system has resulted in some pushback from privacy advocates.
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Google's Drone Delivery Business Wins Approval in Canberra
Project Wing, a branch of Google parent Alphabet, has received approval from Australia's aviation regulator to deploy its drone delivery service for the city of...
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nsung Bletchley Park Hero Whose Role in D-Day was Equal to Turing’s
Eric Jones is finally to be unmasked as the 'king of calm' in Hut 3 who channelled the work of the wartime codebreakers.
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Program Allows Ordinary Digital Camera to See Round Corners
Researchers have demonstrated a computer program that turns a normal digital camera into a periscope, allowing the camera to see objects hidden from view around...
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Victoria to Allow Trial of Driverless Cars on Country Roads
The state of Victoria in Australia has approved a trial of driverless cars on rural roads.
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Tech Giants May Have to be Broken Up, says Tim Berners-Lee
The World Wide Web inventor says Silicon Valley firms have too much clout and 'optimism has cracked'.
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Silicon Valley Finally Pushes for Data Privacy Laws at Senate Hearing
At a U.S. Senate Commerce Committee hearing on Wednesday, technology industry representatives argued in favor of implementing federal data privacy laws.
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Franken-algorithms: The Deadly Consequences of npredictable Code
The death of a woman hit by a self-driving car highlights an unfolding technological crisis, as code piled on code creates 'a universe no one fully understands'...
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Amazon Face Recognition Falsely Matches 28 Lawmakers With Mugshots, ACL Says
A test of Amazon's facial recognition software incorrectly matched the faces of 28 U.S. legislators to images in a mugshot database.
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Holograms: Are They Still the Preserve of Science Fiction?
The fragile apparition endured only long enough to say: "Help me Obi Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope" before flickering out.
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What Is GDPR and How Will It Affect You?
You could be forgiven for thinking that Europe's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a law created to fill your inbox with identikit warnings from every...
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Google DeepMind's AI Learns Human Navigation Skills
Google's DeepMind unit has developed an algorithm that outperforms people in solving a virtual maze.
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Scientists Plan European AI Hub to Compete With .S.
Europe's leading scientists have crafted plans for a multinational European institute for artificial intelligence research.
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Has Dopamine Got s Hooked on Tech?
In an unprecedented attack of candour, Sean Parker, the 38-year-old founding president of Facebook, recently admitted that the social network was founded not to...
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Blockchain Is This Year's Buzzword, But Can It Outlive the Hype?
The speculation around cryptocurrencies has obscured the fact that blockchain, the decentralised, open-source ledger that drives bitcoin, could radically change...
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Strava Suggests Military sers 'opt Out' of Heatmap as Row Deepens
Fitness-tracking company Strava has defended its publication of heatmaps that accidentally reveal sensitive military positions, arguing that the information was...
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Three Quarters of Android Apps Track sers With Third Party Tools
More than 75% of Android applications contain at least one third-party tracking tool.
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Could Virtual Reality Replace Therapy?
Psychologists are testing virtual reality systems as a therapeutic tool for phobias and disorders.
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