Technology
Anything to do with Technology
Eleanora
@Eleanora -
almost 5 years ago
The Secret History of Facial Recognition
The Secret History of Facial RecognitionWoody Bledsoe was sitting in a wheelchair in his open garage, waiting. To anyone who had seen him even a few months earlier—anyone accustomed to greeting him on Sundays at the local Mormon church, or to spotting him around town on h...continued
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Sandrine
@Sandrine -
over 2 years ago
The Census Faces Privacy Concerns
Technology advances forced the Census Bureau to use sweeping measures to ensure privacy for respondents. The ensuing debate goes to the heart of what a census is.
9 minutes read
Teagan
@Teagan -
over 2 years ago
Google's New Tech Can Read Your Body Language—Without Cameras
The company’s ATAP research team is using radar to help computers respond to your movements, like turning off a TV if it senses you've dozed off.
9 minutes read
Rose
@Rose -
over 5 years ago
House Democrats Want More Answers From Facebook on the Deepfake Nancy Pelosi Video
House Democrats Want More Answers From Facebook on the Deepfake Nancy Pelosi Video – AdweekThe House Committee on Energy and Commerce has been underwhelmed with Facebook’s response to the doctored video of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) that went viral last ...continued
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Mariano
@Mariano -
over 5 years ago
NASA’s technology program funds ambitious in-space manufacturing mission
NASA seeks to break the “tyranny of launch” with in-space manufacturingMade in Space is one of the most intriguing companies in aerospace because they're not so much focused on getting into space. Rather, the company is focused on doing interesting, meaningful, and potent...continued
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Alvah
@Alvah -
over 5 years ago
Week-in-Review: the iPhone fades and SpaceX confirms an explosion – TechCrunch
After a dozen years of riding high, the iPhone is showing signs of weakness in a struggling smartphone market where Apple is still managing to be the biggest loser. Here’s a snapshot of where things are at… Apple hasn’t been broadcasting its quarterly unit sales the past ...continued
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Muriel
@Muriel -
almost 5 years ago
FPV Robotics debuts Waver drone to inspect infrastructure on land, on water, and in the air
FPV Robotics debuts Waver drone to inspect infrastructure on land, on water and in the air – TechCrunchJapanese startup FPV Robotics is leveraging drone technology to address a growing global need: inspecting aging infrastructure in an effort to avoid major issues like un...continued
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Jarod
@Jarod -
over 5 years ago
Politicians need to move fast as Facebook & Co move into finance - BIS
Politicians need to move fast as Facebook & Co move into finance: BISLONDON (Reuters) - Politicians need to quickly coordinate regulatory responses to new risks from technology companies like Facebook moving into finance, though banks won’t be squeezed out anytime soo...continued
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Wilmer
@Wilmer -
almost 3 years ago
Distance Wireless Charging Made a Minor Comeback at CES 2022
The potential of truly wire-free power is exciting, but tangible products remain elusive.
9 minutes read
Elliott
@Elliott -
almost 5 years ago
A Practical Guide for Building Ethical Tech
A Practical Guide for Building Ethical Tech"Techlash," the rising public animosity toward big tech companies and their impacts on society, will continue to define the state of the tech world in 2020. Government leaders, historically the stewards of protecting society from...continued
5 minutes read
Dayton
@Dayton -
over 5 years ago
WWII bomb self-detonates in German field, leaves crater
WWII bomb self-detonates in German field, leaves craterA loud explosion in a field startled residents in the town of Limburg in western Germany on Sunday. The blast occurred in the middle of the night and was large enough to register a minor tremor of 1.7 on the Richter s...continued
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Abbie
@Abbie -
over 5 years ago
Red Scare: Democrats Warn FaceApp Could Be a Russian Trojan Horse
Red Scare: Democrats Warn FaceApp Could Be a Russian Trojan HorseFaceApp shot to the top of Apple’s app store this week as the likes of Mindy Kaling, Russell Wilson, and Drake posted photos of themselves, artificially-aged, to social media. But the app has also attracted ...continued
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Jeffrey
@Jeffrey -
over 5 years ago
Ford And VW Further Bond On Electric, Autonomous Vehicles
Ford And VW Deepen A Marriage Of Convenience With Electric, Autonomous Car AllianceFor Ford Motor Co. and Volkswagen AG, the investments announced today deepen the global competitors’ financial marriage of convenience as they seek ways to reduce the high costs developing ...continued
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Ryleigh
@Ryleigh -
about 5 years ago
Timing Technology
Timing Technology: Lessons From The Media LabWhile reading “Funding Breakthrough Research: Promises and Challenges of the ‘ARPA Model’”, Azoulay et al 2018, on DARPA, I noticed an interesting comment:The two Goldstein & Kearney 2018 papers sounded interesting but alas...continued
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Cyril
@Cyril -
over 3 years ago
Claiming a landmark in fusion energy, TAE Technologies sees commercialization by 2030
In a small industrial park located nearly halfway between Los Angeles and San Diego, one company is claiming to have hit a milestone in the development of a new technology for generating power from nuclear fusion. The twenty year old fusion energy technology …
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Jarod
@Jarod -
about 5 years ago
Ron Johnson’s e-commerce startup Enjoy raises $150M, expands in U.K.
Ron Johnson’s e-commerce startup Enjoy raises $150M, expands in UK – TechCrunchEnjoy, the e-commerce startup led by former Apple VP of retail operations, Ron Johnson, has raised an additional $150 million in Series C funding from L Catterton’s new consumer technology plat...continued
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Pablo
@Pablo -
about 3 years ago
McCarthy Threatens Technology Firms That Comply With Riot Inquiry
The top House Republican said his party would retaliate against any company that cooperated with an order to preserve the phone and social media records of G.O.P. lawmakers.
8 minutes read
Bobby
@Bobby -
over 5 years ago
Bagnall: Martello stocks soar after former Canopy CEO Bruce Linton muses about his role with them
Bagnall: Martello stocks soar after former Canopy CEO Bruce Linton muses about his role with themThe capital region’s tech scene has rarely seen anything like this. Shortly after Bruce Linton was sacked July 2 as CEO of Canopy Growth, the country’s biggest cannabis produc...continued
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Leda
@Leda -
over 5 years ago
I Love You, Now Die questions everything we thought we knew about the case against Michelle Carter
Michelle Carter gets new hearingAs technology continues to permeate the most intimate spaces of our personal lives, it’s becoming ever more common for humanity’s darkest impulses to leak out of our brains and onto our smartphone screens, leaving the law scrambling to catc...continued
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Mariano
@Mariano -
almost 5 years ago
Dutch startup Meatable is developing lab-grown pork and has $10 million in new financing to do it
Dutch startup Meatable is developing lab-grown pork and has $10 million in new financing to do it – TechCrunchMeatable, the Dutch startup developing cruelty-free technologies for manufacturing cultured meat, is pivoting to pork production as a swine flu epidemic ravages o...continued
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Cameron
@Cameron -
over 5 years ago
Security lapse exposed a Chinese smart city surveillance system – TechCrunch
Smart cities are designed to make life easier for their residents: better traffic management by clearing routes, making sure the public transport is running on time and having cameras keeping a watchful eye from above. But what happens when that data leaks? One such datab...continued
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Oren
@Oren -
almost 5 years ago
Rossum raises $4.5M to make OCR-like data entry many times more accurate
Rossum raises $4.5M to make OCR-like data entry many times more accurate – TechCrunchEvery day, people slog over inputting date from invoices and other forms. So instead of using traditional Optical Character Recognition (OCR) extraction software, you could apply a new fo...continued
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Dayton
@Dayton -
over 5 years ago
The Opportunity Cost Of Not Investing In Walmart Early
The Opportunity Cost Of Not Investing In Walmart Early - Walmart Inc. (NYSE:WMT)We wrote recently that one of our holdings - Walmart Inc. (WMT) would eventually ramp up the growth rates of its dividend. We stated this because of the encouraging numbers we saw in the compa...continued
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George
@George -
over 2 years ago
Widely Available AI Could Have Deadly Consequences
US researchers' “Dr. Evil project” proves drug discovery AI could be used to create biochemical weapons.
8 minutes read
Elvie
@Elvie -
over 5 years ago
Amazon Prime Day 2019: Best laptop and Chromebook deals, save $541 on Dell XPS 13 - CNET
Amazon Prime Day 2019: Best laptop and Chromebook deals; save $541 on Dell XPS 13Amazon Prime Day is in full swing right now -- and we've already found some massive laptop savings. Most of the stand-out discounts are on gaming laptops and Chromebooks. But we've also foun...continued
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