RoboCop? No, RoboDog: Robotic dog rejoins New York police
BY KAREN MATTHEWS Published April 12, 2023 NEW YORK (AP) — New York City officials unveiled three new high-tech policing devices Tuesday, including a robotic dog that critics called creepy when it first joined the police pack 2 1/2 years ago. The new devices, which also include a GPS tracker for stolen cars and […]
$388 in Sushi. Just a $20 Tip: The Brutal Math of Uber Eats and DoorDash
Delivery drivers were hailed as pandemic heroes. But they say the rise of contactless delivery has made customers less inclined to tip generously and gig work is becoming an even harder way to make a living. Read More
Can We No Longer Believe Anything We See?
By Tiffany Hsu and Steven Lee Myers Published on April 8, 2023 Seeing has not been believing for a very long time. Photos have been faked and manipulated for nearly as long as photography has existed. Now, not even reality is required for photographs to look authentic — just artificial intelligence responding to a prompt. Even experts […]
A Front Company and a Fake Identity: How the U.S. Came to Use Spyware It Was Trying to Kill.
By New York Times Published April 02, 2023 The Biden administration has been trying to choke off use of hacking tools made by the Israeli firm NSO. It turns out that not every part of the government has gotten the message. Read More
‘We are super, super fucked’: Meet the man trying to stop an AI apocalypse
Tim Smith March 29, 2023 Sometimes it takes a maverick to stand up to the power of big corporations. In the case of then-24-year-old self-taught coder Connor Leahy it took “a bunch of Ritalin” and two weeks of forced seclusion in a dorm room. His goal? To reverse-engineer OpenAI’s latest large language model (LLM) […]
Panera rolls out hand-scanning technology that has raised privacy concerns
Juliana Kim Published on March 28, 2023 This palm reader will not be able to tell your fortune, but it will figure out if you are part of Panera’s loyalty program. Over the next few months, the bakery-café chain will roll out scanners that can access customers’ credit card and loyalty account using […]
Publishers Prepare for Showdown With Microsoft, Google Over AI Tools
By Keach Hagey, Alexandra Bruell, Tom Dotanand and Miles Kruppa Published on March 27 Since the arrival of chatbots that can carry on conversations, make up sonnets and ace the LSAT, many people have been in awe at the artificial-intelligence technology’s capabilities. Publishers of online content share in that sense of wonder. They also […]
Scientists at DeepMind and Meta Press Fusion of AI, Biology
By Steven Rosenbush Published on March 22, 2023 Meta Platforms Inc.’s new tool predicting the structure of hundreds of millions of proteins is the latest example of a breakthrough in computational biology that began several years ago at an Alphabet Inc. subsidiary. Some scientists expect the new class of artificial-intelligence systems to accelerate […]
Space Debris Spotted Over Northern California
By The Associated Press and Storyful March 19, 2023 Observers in Sacramento were mesmerized by streaks of light that brightened the night sky on Friday. The flaming debris was retired communications equipment that the International Space Station discarded in February 2020. Read More