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What Happens When Computers Learn to Read Our Emotions?
As sensors connected to artificial intelligence proliferate, machines will see right through our poker face.
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Airbnb Purges More Than Half of Its Boston Listings
The home-sharing service is adopting a more conciliatory tone with local regulators ahead of an expected initial public offering next year.
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Facebook's Head of AI Says the Field Will Soon ‘Hit the Wall’
Jerome Pesenti is encouraged by progress in artificial intelligence, but sees the limits of the current approach to deep learning.
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Larry Page and Sergey Brin Hand Over Alphabet’s Reins
Google chief Sundar Pichai is now also the CEO of Alphabet, but Page and Brin aren’t totally out of the picture.
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Why YouTube Won’t Ban Trump’s Misleading Ads About Biden
Google says it's against company policies for advertisers to make false claims, but when it comes to politicians, not all lies are created equal.
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Senators Protest a Health Algorithm Biased Against Black People
A study found that the formula discriminated against black people by counting health care costs as an indicator of illness.
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How Amazon Ended Up With Auschwitz Christmas Ornaments for Sale
The offensive items appear to be the byproduct of an increasingly automated ecommerce landscape.
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Amazon Joins Tech’s Great Quantum Computing Race
The company’s AWS unit will allow customers to tap quantum machines from three startups. The offering follows a similar service from Microsoft.
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One Free Press Coalition Spotlights Journalists Under Attack
Sophia Xueqin Huang, a journalist who has covered the ongoing unrest in Hong Kong has been detained since October on charges of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble.”
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Would You Pay Someone $40 to Keep You Focused on Work?
I procrastinate. I get distracted. This San Francisco startup wants to help me (and everyone else) by coaching its clients through their to-do lists.
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Sleepwalkers Podcast: Artificial Intelligence Is Watching Us and Judging Us
In China, ubiquitous cameras surveil restive minorities. In the US, algorithms determine whether people get locked up.
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Sleepwalkers Podcast: What Happens When Machines Find Their Creative Muse
Artificial intelligence algorithms are creating portraits, movies, and music, though the results are often … mechanical.
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Hey Congress, How's That Privacy Bill Coming Along?
As the year winds down without any federal online privacy law to show for it, Senate Democrats introduce new legislation and a set of “privacy principles.”
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Sleepwalkers Podcast: Rethinking Our Relationship With AI
A podcast series examines AI and its influence on humans.
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The Guy Behind Bloomberg2020.org: ‘We Know How to Do Logos’
When an ad exec snagged a key election domain, he shared the news with just one other person: ex-White House communications chief Anthony Scaramucci.