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Smiling Dogs? Captcha Has Gone Too Far
However, after several decades, it appears as if captcha’s dominance over the internet could be waning. Apple has decided to…
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Sloppy Use of Machine Learning is Causing a ‘Reproducibility Crisis’ in Science
Kapoor and Narayanan organized a workshop late last month to draw attention to what they call a “reproducibility crisis” in…
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TikTok Is ‘Shadow-Promoting’ Banned Content in Russia
In the weeks following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Kremlin criminalized anything it considered “false information” about state entities or…
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Trump FBI Raid: 5 Big Takeaways From the Mar-a-Lago Search
Very few people are ever on the receiving end of the FBI search warrant—even fewer end up escaping criminal charges.…
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What Could Keep Climate Change From Becoming Catastrophic?
We all know climate change is going to be bad. How bad? Can we stop it from becoming catastrophic? (Choose…
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Crypto and the US Government Are Headed for a Decisive Showdown
Perhaps seeing that the law is going to come for crypto sooner or later, the industry has been rallying behind…
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A Suspected Killer’s Fans Are Still Promoting Him Online
After a local politician and two others were gunned down in the Philippines, posts supporting the suspect continue to gain…
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Amazon’s iRobot Deal Would Give It Maps Inside Millions of Homes
After decades of creating war machines and home cleaning appliances, iRobot agreed to be acquired by Amazon for $1.7 billion,…
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We Interviewed Meta’s New AI Chatbot About … Itself
Kuki can talk about everything from music to sports to politics and religion! And beyond that as well Would you…
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How GPT-3 Wrote a Movie About a Cockroach-AI Love Story
With the film, I like how you sit there and you’re like, oh, what am I watching? Why is the…
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