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Germany Raises Red Flags About Palantir’s Big Data Dragnet
Britta Eder’s list of phone contacts is full of people the German state considers to be criminals. As a defense…
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Google Pioneered Stratospheric Loon Balloons. Was China Watching?
Alphabet pulled the plug on Loon in early 2021. It was a business decision, not a reflection on the technology—basically, its…
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One Startup’s Plan to Help Africa Lure Back Its AI Talent
During a trip home to Johannesburg, South Africa, while completing an engineering master’s program in Japan, Pelonomi Moiloa attended the…
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Bitcoin Miners Are Playing a High-Stakes Game of Chicken
“It’s kind of a last-man-standing situation,” says Fred Thiel, CEO of US-based Marathon Digital Holdings. His crypto-mining company, among the…
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Confusion Spirals in Crypto as the US Cracks Down
The US Securities and Exchange Commission is on the warpath—and crypto is in its crosshairs. Over the weekend, The Wall Street Journal reported…
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Twitter’s API Crackdown Will Hit More Than Just Bots
On February 13, Twitter is expected to end free access to its API, or application programming interface, the backend access…
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India’s Government Wants Total Control of the Internet
Akash Banerjee isn’t sure whether he’s allowed to talk about the BBC documentary India: The Modi Question on his YouTube…
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Eric Schmidt Is Building the Perfect AI War-Fighting Machine
Schmidt became CEO of Google in 2001, when the search engine had a few hundred employees and was barely making money.…
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How to Survive If You Were Part of the Tech Layoffs
Google, Amazon, Facebook, Salesforce, countless crypto startups, Microsoft: These are the tech companies, great and small, that have been laying people…
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News Publishers Are Wary of the Microsoft Bing Chatbot’s Media Diet
OpenAI’s ChatGPT tool, which the startup released in November, has been known to plagiarize or only lightly rework the writing of humans.…
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