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London Cops Will Use Facial Recognition to Hunt Suspects
The deployment, at an unspecified number of locations, will be one of the largest uses of the technology by government authorities in the West.
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Elections Globally Are Under Threat. Here's How to Protect Them
A new report calls for safeguards to reduce the dangers posed by misinformation, online extremism, and social media manipulation.
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The Next Campaign Text You Get May Be From a Friend
Apps for relational organizing—which use personal connections to get out the vote—are the latest political tech arms race. So far, Democrats have the edge.
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Microsoft Looms Over the Privacy Debate in Its Home State
The software company helped torpedo a facial recognition bill last year, though a state senator—who's also a Microsoft program manager—has a new bill in the works.
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AI Can Do Great Things—if It Doesn't Burn the Planet
The computing power required for AI landmarks, such as recognizing images and defeating humans at Go, increased 300,000-fold from 2012 to 2018.
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The Secret History of Facial Recognition
Sixty years ago, a sharecropper’s son invented a technology to identify faces. Then the record of his role all but vanished. Who was Woody Bledsoe, and who was he working for?
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Worried About Privacy at Home? There's an AI for That
How edge AI will provide devices with just enough smarts to get the job done without spilling all your secrets to the mothership.
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How Aid Groups Map Refugee Camps That Officially Don't Exist
Workers from Switzerland-based Medair use clipboards, cell phones, and GIS software to locate informal settlements of Syrian refugees across Lebanon.
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He Wanted a Unicorn. He Got ... a Sustainable Business
Gumroad founder Sahil Lavingia finds a way to thrive outside Silicon Valley's cult of big riches.
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PopSockets, Sonos, and Tile Ask Congress to Rein in Big Tech
At a congressional hearing Friday, smaller companies including PopSockets, Tile, Sonos, and Basecamp criticized Apple, Facebook, Google, and Amazon for having power over them.
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Apple's Latest Deal Shows How AI Is Moving Right Onto Devices
The iPhone maker's purchase of startup Xnor.ai is the latest move toward a trend of computing on the "edge," rather than in the cloud.
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Artist Refik Anadol Turns Data Into Art, With Help From AI
He sees pools of data as raw material for visualizations that he calls a new kind of “sculpture.”
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Inside the Feds’ Battle Against Huawei
How Washington went to war against the Chinese smartphone giant, and how the runaway conflict could spell the end of a single, global internet.
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Jack Dorsey Says You Really Won't Get an Edit Tweet Button
“When you send a text, you can’t really take it back,” the Twitter CEO says. “We wanted to preserve that vibe and that feeling in the early days.”
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How Much Could Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Make From Ads?
What if the Duke and Duchess of Sussex became influencers? First, they probably aren’t. But even if they did, experts say calculating their value is complicated.