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Censorship Pays: China's State Newspaper Expands Lucrative Online Scrubbing Business
People.cn, the online unit of China's influential People's Daily, is boosting its numbers of human internet censors backed by artificial intelligence to help firms...
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At Alibaba's Futuristic Hotel, Robots Deliver Towels and Mix Cocktails
A hotel that opened in China last month utilizes robots and a suite of other high-tech tools that drastically reduce the hotel's cost of human labor.
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Playing Catch-p, Germany Throws Money at AI
Germany plans to invest more than 3 billion euros ($3.39 million) by 2025 to beef up its artificial intelligence capabilities and appoint 100 professors to lecture...
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As Companies Embrace AI, It's a Job-Seeker's Market
Dozens of employers looking to hire the next generation of tech employees descended on the University of California, Berkeley in September to meet students at an...
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Amazon Scraps Secret AI Recruiting Tool That Showed Bias Against Women
Amazon discontinued an artificial intelligence recruiting tool its machine learning specialists developed to automate the hiring process because it was biased against...
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U.S. Tech Giants Eye AI Key to Unlock China Push
U.S. technology giants, facing tighter content rules in China and the threat of a trade war, are targeting an easier way into the world's second largest economy—artificial...
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New Genre of AI Programs Take Hacking to Another Level
IBM has identified a variety of artificial intelligence hacking program that could get past top-tier defensive measures.
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New Genre of Artificial Intelligence Programs Take Computer Hacking to Another Level
The nightmare scenario for computer security—artificial intelligence programs that can learn how to evade even the best defenses—may already have arrived.
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'You Cannot Be Serious': IBM Taps Emotions for Wimbledon Highlights
IBM's Watson artificial intelligence platform is analyzing players' emotions at the Wimbledon tennis tournament.
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At Beijing Security Fair, an Arms Race for Surveillance Tech
It can crack your smartphone password in seconds, rip personal data from call and messaging apps, and peruse your contact book.
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In Silicon Valley, Chinese 'Accelerators' Aim to Bring Startups Home
Beijing's unslakeable thirst for the latest technology has spurred a proliferation of "accelerators" in Silicon Valley that aim to identify promising startups and...
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The Auto Plants of the Future May Have a Surprisingly Human Touch
Carmakers have big plans for their next generation of factories: smarter designs, artificial intelligence and collaborative robots building a wide range of vehicles...
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Trade War or Not, China Is Closing the Gap on .S. in Technology IP Race
China's rising investment in research and expansion of its higher education system mean that it is fast closing the gap with the United States in intellectual property...
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China Eyes 'Black Tech' to Boost Security as Parliament Meets
At a highway check point on the outskirts of Beijing, local police are this week testing out a new security tool: smart glasses that can pick up facial features...
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Operational Limits Played Key Role in Tesla Crash on Autopilot: Ntsb
The chairman of the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said on Tuesday "operational limitations" in the Tesla Model S played a "major role" in a May...
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.s. Weighs Restricting Chinese Investment in Artificial Intelligence
The United States appears poised to heighten scrutiny of Chinese investment in Silicon Valley to better shield sensitive technologies seen as vital to U.S. national...
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Chinese Exam Authorities se Facial Recognition, Drones to Catch Cheats
Chinese education authorities have gone high-tech to catch cheaters as millions of high-school students take their "gaokao", the annual university entrance exam...
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Impact of Job-Stealing Robots a Growing Concern at Davos
Open markets and global trade have been blamed for job losses over the last decade, but global CEOs say the real culprits are increasingly machines.
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.s. Proposes Requiring Vehicles to 'talk' to Each Other to Avoid Crashes
The U.S. Transportation Department on Tuesday proposed requiring all new cars and trucks to be able to "talk" to one another using short-range wireless technology...
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