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MIT Technology Review
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| Updated | 2024-11-25 06:30 |
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A genetic mutation that protects against HIV leads to a shorter life span, researchers find.
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New guidelines on freedom and privacy protection signal that the Chinese state is open to dialogue about how it uses technology.
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The programmer supposedly used face recognition to match social-media photos with images from porn sites. Collecting that data would have been illegal in some countries but not others.
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The artificial-intelligence industry runs on the invisible labor of humans working in isolated and often terrible conditions—and the model is spreading to more and more businesses.
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A new study shows that quantum technology will catch up with today’s encryption standards much sooner than expected. That should worry anybody who needs to store data securely for 25 years or so.
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FCC chairman Ajit Pai had claimed that rosy broadband numbers showed his deregulation approach was working.
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Another large-scale effort is under way to develop a doctor’s-office test to find cancer in people with no symptoms.
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A new analysis of the famous game-theory puzzle finds that even when the players seem equal, one can learn to profit at the other’s expense—and the victim will cooperate.
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A CubeSat launching to space this year will provide a test run for future telescopes.
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The discovery may explain how these buildings have survived for so long in earthquake zones.
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Taking down the ‘drunk ’ Pelosi video could set a precedent for censoring political satire or dissent.
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A look at historical case studies shows us how we handle the liability of automated systems.
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Can the world’s great powers agree on rules of the road for artificial intelligence?
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And how it might even be a good thing.
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This week’s most thought-provoking papers from the Physics arXiv.
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Trade barriers and immigration controls might lead different countries to adopt incompatible products, impeding global innovation.
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We are getting a clearer picture of what the social network is working on behind the scenes: Globalcoin
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The idea of driving on an inverted track has attracted lots of analysis, but a previously overlooked approach could let an upside-down driver keep going safely and indefinitely.
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Here’s a rundown of all the major news in the past week
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The long-promised overhaul that will unlock what creator Vitalik Buterin calls the “world computer†needs a cash infusion.
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Novartis will sell the world’s most expensive drug, a treatment called Zolgensma to treat spinal muscular atrophy.
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The apparent spike in CFC-11 production in China underscores the importance of ongoing emissions monitoring—and the limits of our current system.
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An MIT robot collaborates with a person by tracking his or her muscles.
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To get back from the lunar surface, the astronauts had to rendezvous in lunar orbit. Sheila Thibeault helped make that possible.
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By holding their money in “stable†cryptocurrency, Argentines might avoid the notorious volatility of their peso. First, though, they have to be persuaded.
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Researchers trained a neural network to map audio “voiceprints†from one language to another.
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The Air Force Artificial Intelligence Incubator aims to develop technologies that serve the “public good,†not weapons development.
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