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Tag: Artificial Intelligence
Silicon Valley Heads to Europe, Nervous About New Rules
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and Google’s Sundar Pichai have journeyed to Brussels as the European Union drafts regulation for A.I. and the digital economy.
U.S. Charges Chinese Military Officers in 2017 Equifax Hacking
The indictment suggests that the breach was part of a series of thefts by China to use the data to target American officials.
Many Facial-Recognition Systems Are Biased, Says U.S. Study
Algorithms falsely identified African-American and Asian faces 10 to 100 times more than Caucasian faces, researchers for the National Institute of Standards and Technology found.
With Internal Squabbling on Vivid Display, What’s Next for NATO?
The alliance might not be suffering “brain death” but it faces new technologies, new rivals, new weapons and a changing America.
More Than 140 Nazca Lines Are Discovered in Peruvian Desert
A team of Japanese researchers combined on-the-ground archaeology with modern technology, including artificial intelligence, to identify the 2,000-year-old images.
Facebook Suspends Netanyahu Campaign Bot for Hate Speech
A message sent out by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s campaign accused Israel’s Arab politicians of wanting “to destroy us all.”
How YouTube Radicalized Brazil
YouTube built its business on keeping users hooked. This has been a gift to extremist groups. An investigation in the company’s second-biggest market found serious consequences.
Facial Recognition Tech Is Growing Stronger, Thanks to Your Face
Large databases, built with images from social networks and dating services, contain millions of pictures of people’s faces. Some are shared worldwide.
Overlooked No More: Alan Turing, Condemned Code Breaker and Computer Visionary
His ideas led to early versions of modern computing and helped win World War II. Yet he died as a criminal for his homosexuality.