Amazon In campaign appearance near Amazon HQ, Elizabeth Warren avoids confronting tech giant on proposed breakupgeekwire.com - Jake Goldstein-Street U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren called for stronger antitrust enforcement and a wealth tax at a Seattle rally, drawing cheers from a crowd that her …
Algorithms Do We Need a Hippocratic Oath for Data Science?realclearscience.com - Joshua Ross I swear by Hypatia, by Lovelace, by Turing, by Fisher (and/or Bayes), and by all the statisticians and data scientists, making them my witnesses, …
Archaeology Secrets Of Drone Archaeologyhomify.com Archaeologists have long known that buried structures emit a different heat signature than the surrounding earth. However, low-altitude flights …
Tech Industry Massachusetts General Hospital data breach latest failure to protect patient datasiliconangle.com - DUNCAN RILEY This time, Massachusetts General Hospital had data stolen in a sector that continues to provide inadequate protection for patient data. First …
How A. I is Accidentally Recreating Prejudices From The Real Worldmedium.com - Marcel Deer How A. I. Is Accidentally Recreating Prejudices From The Real World Both facial recognition software and self-driving cars are ‘having problems’ with …
AT&T AT&T reaches settlement with FTC over throttling of ‘unlimited’ data customers9to5Mac - Chance MillerThe long-running battle between the FTC and AT&T over data throttling practices has finally reached the end. The two parties have reached a settlement in the case that originally began in 2014, according
Wichita, KS Police implement a solution to swatting, and its spreadingMashable - Jack MorseAndrew Finch was shot dead by police on Dec. 28, 2017. Officials hope a new system will prevent a similar death from ever happening again. The 28-year-old man was simply minding his own business at his
Scanners Stolen fingerprints could spell the end of biometric security – here’s how to save itTNW - The ConversationThe biggest known biometric data breach to date was reported recently when researchers managed to access a 23-gigabyte database of more than 27.8m records including fingerprint and facial recognition The
IT Tech Isn't Looking Out For Its Users, But Employers Can Help Close The GapForbes - Francis DinhaFor all the positive change the tech industry has created, it has undoubtedly acted irresponsibly at times — especially when it comes to handling user data. If we look to the industry’s leaders, there’s
24 industries to be disrupted by AI: an infographiconeragtime.com There’s no denying that Artificial Intelligence is set to have significant and far-reaching consequences on our future lives. To try and map out just …
Technology Hackers mount attacks on Webmin servers, Pulse Secure, and Fortinet VPNsZDNet - Catalin Cimpanu Enterprise networks across the world are at risk after hackers start exploiting three very popular products. To nobody's surprise, hacker groups have …
Automation The robots are coming for your job, tooCNN - Story by Zachary B. Wolf and illustrations by Max Pepper, CNN(CNN) — The robots. They're coming for your jobs. All of you. Long the prediction of futurists and philosophers, the lived reality of technology replacing human work has been a constant feature since cotton
Photoshop Deep Fakes Are Merely Today's Photoshopped Scientific ImagesForbes - Kalev LeetaruFacial mapping example used to construct a deepfake video. (AP Photo) As society increasingly wrestles with the impact of “deep fakes” it is important to acknowledge that much of the current hype is overstated.
Technology YouTube belatedly decides to ban intentionally disturbing 'kids' videosMashable - Jack MorseBetter late than never, I guess. YouTube, everyone's favorite place to become radicalized, announced this week that it will no longer allow videos targeted at children that have specific types of disturbing
Fourth Amendment REPORT: Trump Admin Considering Program That Would Use Data Harvested From Smart Devices To Prevent Mass Violencedailywire.com - Frank Camp On Thursday, The Washington Post published a report alleging that the Trump administration has been presented with a project that would use …
Artificial Intelligence 2. The disinformation industryAxios To reach us, hit reply to this email or message me at steve@axios.com, Kaveh Waddell at kaveh@axios.com and Erica Pandey at erica@axios.com. For the …
Construction Robots and drones are clocking in on construction sitestucson.com - Gabriela Rico Drone painters, robot masons and bionic workers may one day be a common sight on construction sites. Advances in artificial intelligence, coupled with …
iPhone Apple Just Gave 1.4 Billion iPad, iPhone Users A Reason To LeaveForbes - Gordon KellyEarlier this month, Facebook gave its 1.3 billion users the perfect reason to delete their accounts. Now Apple appears has done the same for its 1.4 billion iPhone and iPad users worldwide. Owners of iPhones
Windows 10 Microsoft Issues New Windows 10 Update WarningForbes - Gordon KellyWhile Microsoft deserves some sympathy for recent Windows 10 problems, typically the buck stops in Redmond. And with its latest Windows 10 update warning, Microsoft makes it clear there is only one company
Uber Uber tries to reassure customers that it takes safety seriously, following NYTimes book excerptTechCrunch - Connie LoizosIt’s hard at times not to feel sorry for Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, given all that he inherited when he became the ride-share giant’s top boss back in April 2017. Among his many to-do items: take public
Wildfires Don Brunell Commentary: Drones Planting Trees In Burned Wildlandschronline.com - Don Brunell / For The Chronicle While drones are coming of age in firefighting, they are also establishing a foothold in restoring fire-scorched forests. Firefighting drones grabbed …
Blockchain CIOs Can’t Ignore These 5 Realities of Blockchain - Smarter With Gartnergartner.com What would happen if a car automatically negotiated its own insurance rate or centralized banks were no longer necessary to verify payments? What if …
Blockchain 7 Common Mistakes in Enterprise Blockchain Projects - Smarter With Gartnergartner.com Blockchain is often hyped as the next big thing in emerging technologies. But the reality is the majority of proofs of concept fail to get beyond the …
Play buttonAviation FAA threatens $25,000 fine for weaponizing dronesTechCrunch - Devin ColdeweyIt’s perfectly natural for a red-blooded American to, once they have procured their first real drone, experiment with attaching a flame thrower to it. But it turns out that this harmless hobby is frowned
Employment Google is cracking down on its employees’ political speech at workRecode - Shirin GhaffaryGoogle announced new rules on Thursday about what employees are allowed to say in the workplace — including restrictions on political expression and guidelines on internal debates about company activity.
Facial Recognition AI Weekly: Detroit’s facial recognition battle is about the ends justifying the meansVentureBeat - Seth ColanerThis week, after U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) took to Twitter to criticize the Detroit Police Department’s use of facial recognition software, the department invited her to visit its Real Time Crime
Ashley Madison Ashley Madison Has Signed 30 Million Cheating Spouses. Again. Has Anything Changed?Forbes - Zak DoffmanAs cyberattacks and data breaches go, Ashley Madison was the big one, the mother lode. Overnight, the lives of millions of people were turned upside down. Marriages and families collapsed. There were suicides
Apple TV All your private data is being sold. Here’s how to opt outCult of Mac - Charlie SorrelDid you know that Home Depot shares your “name, address and transactional information … with third party companies”? Or that Marriott Hotels discloses “Personal Data and Other Data with select Strategic
Cambridge Analytica Facebook Discloses Cambridge Analytica Email It Fought for Months to Keep SecretGizmodo - Dell Cameron More than a year ago, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg laid out on his personal page a “timeline” related to the Cambridge Analytica “situation.” But he …
News The FBI’s Nigerian email scam ring bust shows how the billion-dollar global fraud has evolvedQuartz - Yomi KazeemA series of arrests by the Federal Bureau of Investigations in the US has nabbed one of the “most prolific” rings of Nigerian fraudsters operating in the country. While 14 arrests have been made, a 252-count
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