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A Clever Strategy to Distribute Covid Aid—With Satellite Data
When the novel coronavirus reached Togo in March, its leaders, like those of many countries, responded with stay-at-home orders to…
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Uber Faces a Fine for Refusing to Give Details on Assaults
The California Public Utility Commission has slapped Uber with a $59 million fine for refusing to hand over detailed records…
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Airlines’ Pandemic-Driven Cargo Business Will Keep Flying
Airlines have also consolidated routes and eliminated thousands of flights that duplicated the more popular ones several times a day.…
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Why Did the NSA Go (Virtually) MIA?
Plus: A visit to the agency’s headquarters, a license for engineers, and a holiday reprieve. Source link
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Google’s Antitrust Cases: A Guide for the Perplexed
Do good things come in threes? Not if you’re Google. Heading into the holidays, the company finds itself facing a…
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Some UK Stores Are Using Facial Recognition to Track Shoppers
“The data is then held stored and shared proportionally with other retailers creating a bigger watchlist where all benefit,” a…
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The Newest Weapon Against Covid-19: AI That Speed-Reads Faxes
Alison Stribling has learned a lot about infectious disease since she transferred onto Covid-19 response at the health department in…
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Holiday Gift Guide 2020: Digital Gifts
It’s just about Christmas but you can still find a great digital gift for your friends and family. Check out…
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Uber and Lyft’s Gig Work Law Could Expand Beyond California
In November, gig companies including Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, and Instacart helped pass California’s Proposition 22, effectively writing their own labor…
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What AlphaGo Can Teach Us About How People Learn
We are, of course, looking at ways to apply MuZero to real world problems, and there are some encouraging initial…
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