If you ask Alexa, Amazon’s voice assistant AI system, whether Amazon is a monopoly, it responds by saying it doesn’t know.…
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Apple’s plan to scan customers’ phones and other devices for images depicting child sexual abuse generated a backlash over privacy concerns, which led the…
These days, it’s hard to know whom to trust online, and how to discern genuine content from fakery. Some degree of trust…
When the ten year challenge began doing the rounds on social media, people rushed to post profile pictures of themselves from 2009, side by side with one from 2019, to highlight how much they had changed (or not) in the meantime. It is estimated that more than 5.2m social media users participated in this challenge.
It has the potential to ruin relationships, reputations and our online reality. “Deepfake” artificial intelligence technology promises to create doctored…
We’re promised a future with driverless cars on our roads, but do people really trust the technology to take us…
Robots raise all kinds of concerns. They could steal our jobs, as some experts think. And if artificial intelligence grows,…
“Just thinking about it makes me break out into hives” reported one man in his 60’s. A woman in her…
If we are serious about long-term human presence in space, such as manned bases on the moon or Mars, we…