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Tech Gives Sound Directionality to Hearing Aids
Researchers at Taiwan's National Cheng Kung University have developed a hearing aid system with sound directionality.
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Google Allows More App Payment Options in Antitrust Deal With States
The tech giant will pay $700 million and allow app makers to collect payments directly in a settlement it hopes will help resolve other legal challenges.
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The New York Times Hires First Newsroom Leader Focused on AI
The New York Times said Quartz co-founder Zach Seward has been hired to develop principles for "how we do and do not use generative AI."
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Tesla Recalls 2 Million Cars with 'Insufficient' Autopilot Safety Controls
Tesla is recalling more than 2 million vehicles to fix Autopilot systems that government regulators determined did not have enough controls to prevent misuse.
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OpenAI's Ilya Sutskever Has a Plan for Keeping Super-Intelligent AI in Check
The Superalignment team led by OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever has devised a way to guide the behavior of AI models as they get ever smarter.
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Multiple Data Leaks at 23andMe
Stolen genetic data leads to class action suit against the testing firm.
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New York Plans to Invest $1 Billion to Expand Chip Research
The move is aimed at drawing $9 billion in corporate investment, as New York jockeys to host a new national semiconductor technology center.
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Medical AI Tools Can Make Dangerous Mistakes. Can the Government Help Prevent Them?
The Biden administration has proposed a labeling system for artificial intelligence healthcare apps that aims to ensure their safety.
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Jury Finds Google's App Store Broke Anti-Monopoly Laws
In a landmark decision, Epic Games won its lawsuit against the search giant.
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Apple's iMessage Block of Beeper Mini Just Part of Bigger Blue/Green Bubble Saga
Apple takes preventative measures to protect its customers. Beeper claims Apple's latest move does just the opposite.
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The Year A.I. Ate the Internet
Call 2023 the year many of us learned to communicate, create, cheat, and collaborate with robots.
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U.K. Says Russia Has Targeted Lawmakers and Others in Cyberattacks for Years
The government said a group linked to Russia's intelligence service carried out sustained operations to undermine trust in Britain's political system.
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The World Depends on 60-Year-Old Code No One Knows
COBOL is one of the top mainframe programming languages in use, but most schools and universities have not taught COBOL in decades.
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Bitcoin Mining Used More Water Than New York City Last Year
A study found that water use by bitcoin miners hit 591 billion gallons so far this year, up from 415 billion gallons in 2021.
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AI Networks Vulnerable to Attacks
Tianfu Wu at North Carolina State University and colleagues developed the QuadAttacK software to test deep neural networks for adversarial vulnerabilities.
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2D Material Reshapes 3D Electronics for Hardware
An international team developed a monolithic three dimensional integrated chip comprised of layered two-dimensional materials.
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Bots, Fraud Farms Responsible for 73% of Web Traffic
Arkose Labs reported malicious attacks by bots and human fraud farms accounted for 73% of all Web and app traffic in the third quarter of 2023.
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Google's Gemini Is Not the Generative AI Model We Expected
DeepMind product VP Eli Collins claims Gemini Ultra can comprehend "nuanced" information in text, images, audio and code.
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How Nations Are Losing a Global Race to Tackle A.I.'s Harms
Alarmed by the power of artificial intelligence, Europe, the U.S. and others are trying to respond, but the technology is evolving more rapidly than their policies...
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