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These underwater cables can improve tsunami detection

Telecom companies have long resisted letting scientific sensors piggyback on their subsea cables—until now.

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A Data-Driven Exploration of the Race between Human Labor and Machines in the 21st Century

Technology can automate and substitute for some human tasks, but it can also augment human intelligence and complement specific types of tasks in ways that boost demand for occupations in which those tasks are performed.

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It Takes a Community: The Open Source Challenge

REYNOLD XIN: Open source is not necessarily about free software. Instead, it has more to do with the inherent interest companies have in building ecosystems and communities that will help them lower their cost of hiring new employees and then ramping them up.

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Toward Justice in Computer Science through Community, Criticality, and Citizenship

Computer science education cannot fix its internal injustices and external harms to society if it aims only to broaden participation. Instead, institutional change is required.

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Information: ‘I’ vs. ‘We’ vs. ‘They’

Assessments concerning privacy can hardly be completely neutral and may underlie some cultural bias.

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Two Paths for Digital Disability Law

Digital accessibility has its roots in a decades-long legal movement.

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A Call to Action

We cannot put the genii back in the bottle, but we can ensure human control.

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Raising Robovoices

“If you just chain together automatic transcription, translation, and speech synthesis, you end up accumulating too many errors.”

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Modern Tech Can’t Shield Your Secret Identity

Superheroes worry about having their identities revealed, while the rest of us in the real world worry about surveillance technologies and how they can be easily abused.

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The Troubling Future for Facial Recognition Software

There is promising, if somewhat slow, progress on making facial recognition software less biased.

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Technology’s Impact on Morality

Technology without morality is barbarous; morality without technology is impotent.—Freeman Dyson

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Trust, Regulation, and Human-in-the-Loop AI: within the European region

The E.U. is an early mover in the race to regulate AI, and with the draft E.U. AI Act, it has adopted an assurance-based regulatory environment using yet-to-be-defined AI assurance standards.

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This 22-Year-Old Builds Chips in His Parents’ Garage

Sam Zeloof combines 1970s-era machines with homemade designs. His creations show what’s possible for small-scale silicon tinkerers.

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How Facebook and Google fund global misinformation

The tech giants are paying millions of dollars to the operators of clickbait pages, bankrolling the deterioration of information ecosystems around the world.

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U.S. to triple operational weather and climate supercomputing capacity

Computing upgrade paves way for planned model improvements.

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How AI digital twins help weather the world’s supply chain nightmare

Just-in-time shipping is dead. Long live supply chains stress-tested with AI digital twins.

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The Department of Defense is issuing AI ethics guidelines for tech contractors

The controversy over Project Maven shows the department has a serious trust problem. This is an attempt to fix that.

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DOD Adopts Ethical Principles for Artificial Intelligence

The U.S. Department of Defense officially adopted a series of ethical principles for the use of Artificial Intelligence today following recommendations provided to Secretary of Defense Dr. Mark T. Esper by the Defense Innovation Board last October.

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Responsible AI Guidelines

DIU launched a strategic initiative in March 2020 to implement the DoD’s Ethical Principles for Artificial Intelligence (AI) into its commercial prototyping and acquisition programs.

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How Bots Corrupted Advertising

Botmasters have created a Kafkaesque system where companies are paying huge sums to show their ads to bots. And everyone is fine with this.

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