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The first Obama campaign kicked off a technological revolution in electioneering. Where is it going next?
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Updated | 2024-11-21 13:45 |
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The AI advances that brought you Alexa are teaching propaganda how to talk.
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Long before the internet, hate speech flourished in echo chambers of a different kind.
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Maps of Twitter activity show how political polarization manifests online and why divides are so hard to bridge.
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vTaiwan is a promising experiment in participatory governance. But politics is blocking it from getting greater traction.
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Here’s how China rules using data, AI, and internet surveillance.
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Inside the race to catch the worryingly real fakes that can be made using artificial intelligence.
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These experts say they can divine political preferences you can’t express from signals you don’t know you’re producing.
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Cyberattacks on the 2016 US election caused states to bolster the defenses of their voting systems. It hasn’t been enough, says the University of Michigan’s Alex Halderman.
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Increased use of machine learning and cloud services could make the financial world more vulnerable.
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To understand how digital technologies went from instruments for spreading democracy to weapons for attacking it, you have to look beyond the technologies themselves.
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FiscalNote takes the intuition out of politics. Does it take the democracy out, too?
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Machine learning and artificial intelligence can help guard against cyberattacks, but hackers can foil security algorithms by targeting the data they train on and the warning flags they look for.
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The success shows that advances in artificial intelligence aren’t the sole domain of elite programmers.
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It’s too dangerous to conduct elections over the internet, they say, and West Virginia’s new plan to put votes on a blockchain doesn’t fix that.
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Can we safely fix the DNA of human embryos in a lab dish?
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It’s taken years of work and billions of dollars in venture funding to build a working mixed-reality headset for developers. Now what?
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Coursera is unveiling a new machine learning tool to show companies what skills their employees are acquiring from its classes and their level of expertise.
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Fake video clips made with artificial intelligence can also be spotted using AI—but this may be the beginning of an arms race.
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These robotic limbs could someday help people work together when they’re far apart.
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Augur lets people bet on events and pays whoever gets it right—so of course they’re wagering on the deaths of Donald Trump and Jeff Bezos.
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A reinforcement-learning algorithm allows Dactyl to learn physical tasks by practicing them in a virtual-reality environment.
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The US military agency is worried the country could lose its edge in semiconductor chips with the end of Moore’s Law.
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Fluctuating solar and wind power require lots of energy storage, and lithium-ion batteries seem like the obvious choice—but they are far too expensive to play a major role.
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Harvard geoengineering researcher David Keith explains when to feed the trolls and when not to.
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Researchers explore genetic “scores†that may predict educational success.
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Stanford and Berkeley scientists found that suicides, as well as depressive language on Twitter, rise as temperatures do.
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How DNA sequencing and new genetic drugs raise the chance we can cure any inherited disease.
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Gene-editing technology is eyed as the next step in the quest to create cats that don’t make you sneeze.
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It’s turning carbon credits into crypto-tokens—part of a scheme to create a massive marketplace of novel digital assets.
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Its new open-source software will help developers experiment with the machines, including Google’s own super-powerful quantum processor.
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The five best ways to detect fake social-media accounts.
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By-products include striking short films that speed up and slow down along in response to body signals.
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VR technology hasn’t been a hit with consumers, so companies are taking it everywhere from specially built arenas to airports.
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Combining software with something the company calls “trusted hardware†will vastly expand what smart contracts can do.
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The state leading the clean-energy charge could wind up importing coal power from Wyoming.
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The two countries are vying to create an exascale computer that could lead to significant advances in many scientific fields.
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A new analysis shows how the cost of securing Bitcoin will constrain its growth.
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Martine Rothblatt wants to end transplant shortages with 3-D-printed lungs.
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Better gene editing. Cheaper solar cells. Stretchable electronics. And smarter robots. Meet Jonas Cleveland, CEO of COSY, and the rest of our 2018 list of 35 Innovators Under 35.
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Big-money politics is making it harder than ever to tame Big Tech.
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Shared autonomous vehicles could transform American cities built around car ownership.
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Behind every piece of automation is a human who made it happen.
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The Ausbildung is widely touted as an example other countries should follow. But it’s struggling to keep up with technological change.
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Toledo has more robots per worker than any other US city. They’re producing a healthy economy—and lots of anxiety.
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A Canadian province is giving people money with no strings attached—revealing both the appeal and the limitations of the idea.
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A Canadian province is giving people money with no strings attached—revealing both the appeal and the limitations of the idea.
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Facebook, Amazon, and Google will resist attempts to restrain their market power. But for the sake of our collective prosperity and our personal privacy, it’s a fight we can’t afford to lose.
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Potential pitfalls include putting the military in charge and spraying too much money around.
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