Category: Technology

[CBS] Automated AI restaurant opens in California

An almost fully-automated restaurant in Pasadena, California, is using robot cooks and AI-powered ordering kiosks. 

over 1 year

China’s cyber army is invading critical U.S. services

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over 1 year

[Politico] Sweeping new Biden order aims to alter the AI landscape

The White House is poised to make an all-hands effort to impose national rules on a fast-moving technology, according to a draft executiv...

over 1 year

[Business Insider] Judge: AI-generated art can't by copyrighted, with consequences for Hollywood studios

Plaintiff Stephen Thaler sued the US Copyright Office to try and have his AI system listed as the creator of an artwork.

almost 2 years

[The Guardian] Robotaxi breakdowns cause mayhem in San Francisco days after expansion vote

Public utilities commission had allowed Google’s Waymo and General Motors’ Cruise to operate all day in a vote on Thursday.

almost 2 years

[Business Insider] Ever person mistakenly arrested using facial recognition has been Black

All six known reports of false arrests due to facial recognition technology were made by Black people.

almost 2 years

[The Guardian] US scientists achieve net energy gain for second time in a fusion reaction

The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s National Ignition Facility achieved the feat using lasers to fuse two atoms.

almost 2 years

[NBC] Google users can now ask to have their explicit photos removed from search results

The company also introduced a new dashboard that tracks when a person’s personal contact information appears in its search results.

almost 2 years

[CNBC] A.I. is on a collision course with white-collar, high-paid jobs

The notion of technological advancement upending the job market isn’t a new phenomenon.

almost 2 years

[Business Insider] The first self-driving car fatality case put to rest who was responsible for killing a pedestrian. In this case, it was not the robot.

A guilty plea entered Friday offered an answer to the once-hypothetical ethics question of who is responsible when a self-driving car kil...

almost 2 years

[Fox] AI for everybody: GOP, Dems unite behind public AI research center to ‘democratize’ the tech

Republicans and Democrats in the Artificial Intelligence Caucus are proposing the creation of a public research center that will give peo...

almost 2 years

[PEW] Which U.S. Workers Are More Exposed to Artificial Intelligence on Their Jobs?

About a fifth of all workers have high-exposure jobs; women, Asian, college-educated and higher-paid workers are more exposed. But those ...

almost 2 years

[CNN] Elizabeth Warren and Lindsey Graham want a new agency to regulate tech | CNN Business

Two US senators are calling for the creation of a new federal agency to regulate tech companies such as Amazon, Google and Meta, in the l...

almost 2 years

[CNBC] Why Musk is rebranding Twitter to X

Elon Musk recently explained why he decided to rebrand Twitter to X and noted that it’s more than just a name change.

almost 2 years

[Yahoo] Meta’s Threads Has 70 Million Signups, Surprising Zuckerberg

Meta Platforms Inc.’s new social media app Threads has garnered 70 million users in just two days after its launch, a sign of enthusiasm ...

about 2 years

[CNBC] Meta launches Instagram Threads in a challenge to Twitter

The release of Threads is noteworthy considering that Twitter has suffered a wave of mishaps under the ownership of Tesla CEO Elon Musk, ...

about 2 years

First synthetic human embryo raises ethical issues

Scientists have created the first synthetic human embryos - using no eggs or sperm - provoking deep ethical questions, according to repor...

about 2 years

[CNN] US government agencies hit in global cyberattack

Several US federal government agencies have been hit in a global cyberattack by Russian cybercriminals that exploits a vulnerability in w...

about 2 years

[CBS] 2,000 families suing social media over kids' mental health

When whistleblower Frances Haugen pulled back the curtain on Facebook in the fall of 2021, thousands of pages of internal documents showe...

about 2 years

[MSN] China-backed hacker targeted infrastructure in Guam, U.S

(Reuters) - Microsoft Corp said on Wednesday it had uncovered malicious activity by a state-sponsored actor based in China aimed at criti...

about 2 years

[NBC] SCOTUS ruling on internet company immunity from lawsuits over user content

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday sidestepped a ruling on the legal shield that protects internet companies from lawsuits relati...

about 2 years

[Business Insider] 50% of workers feel 'in the dark' about how AI will impact their job

A number of companies are experimenting with AI to automate processes and speed up tasks. Half of a group of office workers recently surv...

about 2 years

[NBC] The AI revolution is powered by these contractors making $15 an hour

Alexej Savreux, a 34-year-old in Kansas City, says he’s done all kinds of work over the years. He’s made fast-food sandwiches. He’s been ...

about 2 years

[BBC] White House: Tech bosses warn about AI risks

Tech bosses were summoned to the White House on Thursday and told they must protect the public from the dangers of Artificial Intelligenc...

about 2 years

[Business Insider] Google CEO: society needs to adapt to AI, ethicists and philosophers must help

Social scientists, ethicists, and philosophers need to be involved in the development of AI, Google CEO Sundar Pichai told CBS' "60 Minut...

about 2 years

[Business Insider] How fake AI-powered media can warp our perception of reality

Deepfakes use AI to replace the likeness of one person with another in video or audio. There are concerns that deepfakes can be used to c...

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[CNN] The four astronauts NASA selected for historic moon flyby mission | CNN

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements an...

over 2 years

[WSJ] Musk & Tech Experts Call For Pause in AI Development

Several tech executives and top artificial-intelligence researchers, including Tesla Inc. Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk and AI pionee...

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[Insider] AI systems like ChatGPT could impact 300 million full-time jobs worldwide, with administrative and legal roles some of the most at risk, Goldman Sachs report says

* Generative AI could lead to "significant disruption" in the labor market, says Goldman Sachs. * Researchers at the company estimated th...

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[BBC] Jack Ma: Alibaba founder back in China after long absence

The first reported public sighting of Mr Ma since then was in January this year. The Financial Times newspaper said he had been seen in T...

over 2 years

[NBC] TikTok now has 150 million active users in the U.S., CEO to tell Congress

When TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew testifies before Congress on Thursday, he plans to unveil new internal data that suggests the popular video-...

over 2 years

[Insider] The UK is banning TikTok on government devices — joining the US, Canada, and the EU — despite a charm offensive dubbed 'Project Clover,' report says

* The UK will join the EU, US, and Canada in banning TikTok on government devices, per Bloomberg. * TikTok execs had doubled down on effo...

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[CNBC] New bipartisan Senate TikTok bill will be unveiled Tuesday

WASHINGTON — A highly anticipated bipartisan Senate bill to give the president the authority to respond to threats posed by TikTok and co...

over 2 years

[VICE] Scientists Glimpse Faint Shocks in Cosmic Web that Links the Universe

The mind-boggling discovery opens an unprecedented new window into the large-scale structures that stretch across hundreds of millions of...

over 2 years

[CNBC] Tesla recalls 362,758 vehicles, says Full Self-Driving Beta software may cause crashes

Tesla is recalling 362,758 vehicles equipped with the company's experimental driver-assistance software, which is marketed as Full Self-D...

over 2 years

[Insider] The mind-bending dangers of Elon Musk's brain-chip revolution

Elon Musk wants to put a computer chip in your brain. Well, maybe not in your brain, but in the brain of some human somewhere. Musk's neu...

over 2 years

[The Guardian] Black holes ‘contain dark energy that drive expansion of universe’

Nothing sucks more than a supermassive black hole, but according to a group of researchers, the enormous objects found at the heart of ma...

over 2 years

[Reuters] U.S. to test nuclear-powered spacecraft by 2027

WASHINGTON, Jan 24 (Reuters) - The United States plans to test a spacecraft engine powered by nuclear fission by 2027 as part of a long-t...

over 2 years

[CBS] NYPD videoing people leaving Drake concert worries privacy advocates

Some audience members leaving a concert by Drake at a Manhattan theater came outside to see a New York Police Department officer filming ...

over 2 years

[The Guardian] Universities to return to ‘pen and paper’ exams after students caught using AI to write essays

Australian universities have been forced to change the way they run exams and other assessments amid fears students are using emerging ar...

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[Business Insider] Amazon is laying off over 18,000 workers, the largest job cut in the company's history

Amazon plans to lay off the largest number of workers in the company's history. In a memo to Amazon staff on Wednesday, CEO Andy Jassy sa...

over 2 years

[MSN] How Safe Is It To Store Crypto on Exchanges? What To Know Amid FTX Collapse

Undoubtedly, cryptocurrency is not the safest investment to make. Aside from extreme volatility risks and loose regulations, there are th...

over 2 years

[Insider] A brother and sister had to stop 6 times in 1 day to charge their rented Tesla in cold weather because the battery drained so quickly

Xaviar and Alice Steavenson wanted to find out what it's like to drive a Tesla, so they rented one from Hertz for a road trip from Orland...

over 2 years

[NBC] Hackers linked to Chinese government stole millions in Covid benefits

Hackers linked to the Chinese government stole at least $20 million in U. S. Covid relief benefits, including Small Business Administrati...

over 2 years

[WSJ] U.S., EU Agree to Coordinate Semiconductor Subsidy Programs

COLLEGE PARK, Md.—Top U. S. and European Union officials agreed to work closely to strengthen semiconductor supply chains, including shar...

over 2 years

[The Guardian] US judge orders Amazon to ‘cease and desist’ anti-union retaliation

Amazon will be forced to read out a public notice this week to all employees at a warehouse in Staten Island, New York, where workers won...

over 2 years

[Fox] Pennsylvania teenager charged with homicide after Instagram video confession

Bensalem, Pennsylvania police arrested a 16-year-old boy on Friday after allegedly killing a girl and turning to Instagram for help with ...

over 2 years

[The Guardian] ‘Overweight’ neutron star defies a black hole theory, say astronomers

An “overweight” neutron star has been observed by astronomers, who say the mysterious object confounds astronomical theories. The hyperma...

over 2 years

[Insider] Amazon's new robot should strike fear into its hundreds of thousands of warehouse workers

What do you call a robotic arm that relies on computer vision, artificial intelligence, and suction cups to pick up items?In Amazon's wor...

over 2 years

FTC says it's tracking developments at Twitter with 'deep concern' after key security departures

The Federal Trade Commission is closely watching Twitter’s moves under new owner Elon Musk, a spokesperson said in a statement Thursday. ...

over 2 years

[NBC] NASA moon rocket launch delayed again as storm approaches Florida coast

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla — NASA is again postponing the launch of its new moon rocket because of a storm threatening the Florida coast. Fuel l...

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[CNN] Twitter battles wave of impersonators after launching new paid verification system

CNN has confirmed multiple verified Twitter accounts have been suspended by the platform after other users posted screenshots showing mis...

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[ABC] California settles with firm in Volkswagen emissions scandal

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- California on Monday settled a lawsuit against a German company stemming from the emissions scandal that tarred Vol...

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[WSJ] Exclusive: Facebook Parent Meta Is Preparing to Notify Employees of Large-Scale Layoffs This Week

Meta’s planned layoffs would be the first broad headcount reductions to occur in the company’s 18-year history. Meta’s planned layoffs wo...

over 2 years

[CNN] Twitter delays $8 'blue check' verification plan until after the midterms | CNN Business

Twitter is delaying the rollout of account verifications for its paid Twitter Blue subscription plan until after the midterm elections, a...

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[BBC] Golden asteroid: Nasa mission set to launch in 2023 - CBBC Newsround

Somewhere between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter lurks a massive metal asteroid known as 16 Psyche.Nasa has announced it plans to launch ...

over 2 years

[The Guardian] TikTok tells European users its staff in China get access to their data

TikTok is spelling out to its European users that their data can be accessed by employees outside the continent, including in China, amid...

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[Vice] Neo-Nazis, Antisemites, and the N Word: Twitter Just Hours Under Elon Musk

Minutes after Elon Musk became Twitter’s official owner, the platform was filled with vile hate speech as users celebrated. The very fir...

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[NY Times] Spotify Wants to Get Into Audiobooks but Says Apple Is in the Way

Daniel Ek, the chief executive of Spotify, wants his company to be the premier outlet in the world of audio. But when he pushed the strea...

over 2 years

[WAPO] ‘Joe Biden’ has been dominating a niche fighting game for years

Since 2020, a player who goes by the in-game handle “Joe Biden” has operated at the highest levels of Guilty Gear, a fighting game series...

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[Politico] Will Electric Vehicles Kill the Gas Station?

WELLINGTON, Colo. — In the farthest Denver suburbs, just off Interstate 25 stands a gas station called Kum & Go that doesn’t look lik...

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[WAPO] Racist tweets quickly surfaced after Musk closed Twitter deal

An emboldened cast of anonymous trolls spewed racist slurs and Nazi memes onto Twitter in the hours after billionaire industrialist Elon ...

over 2 years

[WAPO] Big rock slams into Mars, gouges crater, reveals subsurface features

Mars has a lot of craters. Now it has two new ones — gouged by rocks that slammed into the planet late last year. Mars will be fine. This...

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[Huff Post] 'Nation's Report Card' Shows Decline in Reading Scores, Record Decline In Math

Students across the U. S. have fallen behind in both math and reading in the past three years, illuminating the drastic effects of the CO...

over 2 years

[CNBC] Binance is ‘narrowing down’ identity of hacker behind $570 million crypto attack, CEO says

Cryptocurrency exchange Binance is getting closer to figuring out the identity of a hacker that orchestrated a $570 million hack on its B...

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[WSJ] The Mechanics of Russia’s Nuclear Arsenal, Explained

As Russia suffers losses in Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin has made veiled threats to use nuclear weapons—a scenario that security exp...

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[Insider] An ex-TikTok moderator, who was paid $10 a day and had to scroll through child abuse and gun violence, was required to keep her webcam on all night, report says

* A former TikTok moderator in Colombia was required to keep her webcam on all night while working. * Moderators in Colombia are paid ju...

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[Forbes] Google’s New Medical Imaging Suite Will Enable A Bright Future Ahead For Healthcare

Earlier this month, Google Cloud announced its latest venture within the realm of healthcare: a new Medical Imaging Suite. This initiativ...

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[NPR] NASA announces the team members for its UFO study

A group of 16 researchers will spend the next nine months studying unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), also known as UFOs, as part of a ...

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[Insider] Mark Zuckerberg should dial down the metaverse crap and make Facebook 'Facebook' again

* Mark Zuckerberg is going all in on the metaverse, but he should re-focus on other things. * The Meta CEO should prioritize growing eng...

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[The Guardian] Save energy by not turning clocks back in October, says expert

Households could save more than £400 a year on energy bills if clocks are not put back at the end of October, according to an expert, who...

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[MSN] A new four-year project will test the viability of large-scale wave energy in Europe

* The WEDUSEA collaboration involves 14 partners from academia and industry. * Funding for the project is coming from Innovate UK and th...

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[Reuters] U.S. awards $2.8 billion for EV battery, grid projects

WASHINGTON, Oct 19 (Reuters) - The Biden administration will announce on Wednesday it is awarding $2.8 billion in grants for projects to ...

over 2 years

[BBC] Google offers glimpse of ultra-realistic chat tech

Google has launched a UK version of an app that lets users interact with the artificial-intelligence system one of its engineers has clai...

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[The Guardian] Amount of ocean heat found to be accelerating and fueling extreme weather events

The amount of heat accumulating in the ocean is accelerating and penetrating ever deeper, with widespread effects on extreme weather even...

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[CNN] Biden moves one step closer to making giant Pacific Ocean wind turbines a reality

The Department of Interior on Tuesday announced it will hold a lease sale for wind energy off the coast of Central and Northern Californi...

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[CNN] $4.6 billion plant will make green ammonia 'the fuel of the future'

$4.6 billion plant will make green ammonia 'the fuel of the future' South Africa plans to build the world's largest green ammonia plant ...

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[CNBC] Apple iPhone maker Foxconn says it wants to make cars for Tesla as it ramps up EV push

Foxconn, the biggest assembler of Apple's iPhones, wants to one day build cars for Tesla, the company's CEO said, as it pushes further in...

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[The Guardian] US Atlantic coast now a breeding ground for supercharged hurricanes – study

The US Atlantic coast has become a breeding ground for super-charged hurricanes which are likely to batter coastal communities even harde...

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[NBC] Asteroid dust successfully brought back to Earth

A spacecraft that touched down on a space rock during a billion-mile mission successfully returned the first-ever samples from the surfac...

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[The Guardian] Young LGBTQ+ people more than twice as likely to experience hate speech online

Young LGBTQ+ people are more than twice as likely to experience hate speech online compared with those who identify as heterosexual, acco...

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[CNN] Lake Mead water crisis is exposing volcanic rock from eruptions 12 million years ago | CNN

Lake Mead’s falling water level has exposed several shocking things in recent months – previously sunken boats, old war ships and human r...

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[Insider] Electric vehicles could be charged within 5 minutes thanks to tech developed by NASA for use in space

* A cooling system developed by NASA for electronics in space could be used to help charge electric cars. * The system could, in theory,...

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[CNBC] Google selects Coinbase to take cloud payments with cryptocurrencies and will use its custody tool

Google said Tuesday that it will rely on Coinbase to start letting some customers pay for cloud services with cryptocurrencies early in 2...

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[VICE] Police Are Using DNA to Generate 3D Images of Suspects They've Never Seen

On Tuesday, the Edmonton Police Service (EPS) shared a computer generated image of a suspect they created with DNA phenotyping, which it ...

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[CNN] Iran's state broadcaster hacked during nightly news program

An Iranian state broadcaster was allegedly hacked during its nightly news program Saturday, according to the pro-reform IranWire outlet, ...

over 2 years

[MSN] Dubai’s driverless taxis on show at Gitex before 2023 introduction

Self-driving electric taxis — set to be on Dubai’s roads next year — will go on display at the Gitex technology exhibition, which opens o...

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[Yahoo News] SpaceX Falcon 9 puts on spectacular sky show boosting 2 satellites to orbit

Running two days late after back-to-back scrubs, SpaceX launched a pair of Intelsat communications satellites from Cape Canaveral Saturda...

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[NY Times] Skepticism, Confusion, Frustration: Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s Metaverse Struggles

“The pressures Meta’s business is facing in 2022 are acute, significant and not metaverse-related,” said Matthew Ball, an investor and me...

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[BBC] How to store data for 1,000 years

So far, documents including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Magna Carta, the King James Bible – and The Hitchhiker's Guide to ...

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[BBC] Ticketmaster demand-based pricing system criticized

A new Ticketmaster pricing system, which alters the price of tickets based on demand, is being criticised by both fans and industry exper...

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[Forbes] Pittsburgh International Airport Just Installed A Giant Algae Air Purifier

Pittsburgh International Airport's xBridge opened in 2020 and has become a 10,000-square-foot innovation center. Drawing from the region'...

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[WAPO] Cyborg cockroaches are coming, and they just want to help

Cyborg cockroaches are coming, and they just want to helpInspired by insects, robotic engineers are creating machines that could aid in s...

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[Insider] Electric cars won't overload the power grid — and they could even help modernize our aging infrastructure

* Electric cars won't overwhelm the US grid anytime soon, energy and transportation experts say. * EVs don't consume a lot of energy now...

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