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Ten days earlier than Georgia’s Senate runoff election in 2021, Gamaliel Warren Turner Sr., a 69-year-old veteran, came upon that somebody in his county had challenged his eligibility to vote. Turner, a retired main within the US…

Pimeyes is technically totally different from Clearview as a result of it doesn't retailer faces in a database, however as an alternative searches the web for faces when a person uploads an image, in accordance with privateness…

Washington, DC, is the house base of probably the most highly effective authorities on earth. It’s additionally residence to 690,000 folks—and 29 obscure algorithms that form their lives. Metropolis companies use automation to display…

Subsequent week, Coloradans will vote on a poll initiative that, if accredited, would create a regulated marketplace for psilocybin within the state. Below this initiative, known as Proposition 12, or the Pure Medication Well being Act,…

There’s a knock on the door. Native authorities have obtained a tip that you just’ve damaged the ethical code—a brand new set of legal guidelines banning your once-accepted life-style. You’re being known as in for questioning, and it’s…

Elon Musk is shopping for Twitter for $44 billion after the least attractive will-they-won't-they saga of all time. And whereas Musk attempted to reassure advertisers yesterday that "Twitter clearly can not grow to be a free-for-all…

In November 2021, Fb introduced it could delete face recognition information extracted from photos of greater than 1 billion individuals and cease providing to robotically tag individuals in images and movies. Luke Stark, an assistant…

When Google launched its flagship Pixel 6 and 6 Professional smartphones final yr, the corporate touted its Tensor “system on a chip” and devoted Titan M2 safety chip as being designed to underpin a brand new technology of safety and…

In 2020, I helped create the Sign for Assist, a hand sign that communicates to mates, household, and bystanders that “I would like you to verify in on me in a protected method.” Our staff promoted the Sign for Assist throughout social…

Pfefferkorn additionally encourages asking your faculty to carry out an audit of its monitoring software program, which might reveal what sort of content material the algorithm is monitoring and the way. An audit would possibly reveal…