Data, Science & Tech

Minors aren’t supposed to use Snap, Facebook, and YouTube — but they are, and experience abuse, harassment, and sexual solicitation

An Open Letter to Google

Acquisition will combine solutions and expertise to deliver new cloud and AI capabilities across healthcare and other industries REDMOND, Wash., and BURLINGTON, Mass. – April 12, 2021 – Microsoft Corp (Nasdaq: MSFT) and Nuance Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq: NUAN) today announced they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Microsoft will acquire Nuance for $56.00 […]

After losing an epic battle with Mark Zuckerberg over ownership of Facebook and being shunned in Silicon Valley, CAMERON and TYLER WINKLEVOSS are back.

Today, 25% of adults ages 65 and older report never going online, compared with much smaller shares of adults under the age of 65.

An analysis of builders and supporters of alternative data governance approaches and recommendations for how the Data Futures Lab can help.

The ambitious plans of President Biden and major auto manufacturers could be scuttled by a severe shortage. This week, Biden has to decide whether to intervene in a dispute between two major battery makers that could determine whether there's enough supply to make 340,000 electric vehicles in the United States.

Amazon ambassadors were trained to defend Jeff Bezos and clap back at Bernie Sanders under a program codenamed “Veritas.”

How an Australian college student turned ~$4k into a fortune by speculating on the blockchain boom.

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

Update (06/04/2021 4.00 PM IST): HaveIBeenPwned has added a new search for phone numbers involved in this leak. You can use the same search box to search for your phone number with your country code as described below. You can find more details here.  Multiple reports over the weekend confirmed that an attacker published details …

The Google-owned video site is blocking millions of videos featuring hate speech and disinformation, but researchers say there’s still more it could do

New data suggests higher opt-in rates than expected.

The carbon emissions associated with mining bitcoin in China alone will soon outstrip the total annual emissions of mid-sized European countries

Google research manager Samy Bengio, who oversaw the company’s AI ethics group until a controversy led to the ouster of two female leaders, resigned on Tuesday to pursue other opportunities.

Meet the alternatives to large language models

The team purposely excluded Instagram images from the European Union, likely because of GDPR

It reportedly isn’t sure who to send the notifications to.

A Guardian investigation exposes the breadth of state-backed manipulation of the platform

Can Google be trusted to evaluate its own AI?

We, the undersigned, stand in solidarity with Dr. Timnit Gebru, who was terminated from her position as Staff Research Scientist and…

Backed by Uber and Amazon, Aurora Innovation has a plan to win the self-driving race.

Auctioning Power to the Person as an NFT and Splitting the Proceeds

The company also said it planned to release iPhone software next week with a privacy feature that worries many digital-advertising companies.

Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) technology promise to revolutionize our approach to medicine, finance, business operations, media, and more.

How An Automated Algorithm Constrained Congress for a Century

Scholars in several fields, including quantitative methodologists, legal scholars, and theoretically oriented criminologists, have launched robust debates about...

"People have often reported on whistleblowing matter-of-factly as though we did it and moved on with our lives." But that couldn't be further from the truth.