Researchers who found that a fifth of social networking apps have received multiple user complaints about sexual exploitation have launched a website to help parents vet apps.
Category: Computers and the Internet
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Biden Orders Ban on U.S. Investments in China’s Sensitive High-Tech Industries
The new limits, aimed at preventing American help to Beijing as it modernizes its military, escalates a conflict pitting the world’s two largest economies against each other.
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Amazon to Meet Regulators as U.S. Considers Possible Antitrust Suit
Amazon’s meetings with the Federal Trade Commission, known as “last rites” meetings, are typically a final step before the agency votes on filing a lawsuit.
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Crypto’s Next Craze? Orbs That Scan Your Eyeballs.
Sam Altman, OpenAI’s chief executive, has started Worldcoin, a cryptocurrency project that aims to scan billions of human irises.
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A Zoom Call, Fake Names and an A.I. Presentation Gone Awry
A.I. start-ups are competing fiercely with one another as a race to get ahead in the technology intensifies.
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Indiana Tests if the Heartland Can Transform Into a Chip Hub
The state has little experience with semiconductors, but the Biden administration has promised to unleash opportunity in “the heartland of America” through the $52 billion CHIPS Act.
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Big Tech Rebounds and Preps for Transformative A.I. Investments
As the tech giants found their financial footing last quarter, they doubled down on artificial intelligence, which has been a boon to companies like Nvidia.
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A New Frontier for Travel Scammers: A.I.-Generated Guidebooks
Shoddy guidebooks are flooding Amazon. Their authors claim to be renowned travel writers, but are they A.I. inventions? And how big is the problem?
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The Chip Titan Whose Life’s Work Is at the Center of a Tech Cold War
At 92, Morris Chang, the founder of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, can no longer stay in the shadows.