The Trump administration is pushing for legislation that would allow law enforcement to gain access to smartphones when the owners are the subjects of criminal investigations. Tech companies, such as Apple and Google have up until now been largely resistant …
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Google’s Director of Engineering, Ray Kurzweil has been known for making bold predictions since the 1990s. His latest prediction is that the world will have a universal basic income by the 2030’s. Kurzweil touts an 84% success rate on his …
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In what potentially a landmark ruling, a British man has been granted the legal right to have a former criminal charge stripped from search engine Google’s results. The judge in the case wrote “the crime and punishment information has …
Continue ReadingA woman in Tempe, Arizona, has been killed after being struck by a self-driving Uber car at about 10 p.m. last night. The victim’s name has not as of yet been released.
The vehicle was in autonomous, or self-driving mode, …
Continue ReadingA group of early employees at Facebook and Google have banded together to counter the effects of the companies hey helped build. The employees are forming a consortium of experts called the Center of Humane Technology. Along with the …
Continue ReadingTwitter revealed to Congressional lawmakers this week that Russian bots, or automated accounts, retweeted the president nearly 470,000 times during the final weeks of the presidential election. The company had reported that it has identified 201 accounts linked to …
Continue ReadingGoogle and Twitter told Congress that they have found no evidence of Russian influence efforts in the handful of U.S. special elections held last year. The companies responded to written questions from the Senate Intelligence Committee. The questions were a …
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