A proposed bill would bar companies from using data like a phone’s battery life, what apps are installed and where its user ...

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On Monday, the Biden administration released details of an expansive executive order that represents America’s first concerted attempt to control the use and application of artificial intelligence.

Last week, Google and Apple announced that they were working together to develop privacy-protecting technology that could enable COVID-19 contact-tracing apps. The idea is elegant in its simplicity: ...

Hello World An AI Diagnosed Her with Breast Cancer. Then She Ran an Experiment to See How Accurate It Was A conversation with Meredith Broussard By Lam Thuy Vo ...

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One of the first things I did upon moving into a new apartment last November was get a better deal on my broadband internet. To discover what other internet service providers (ISPs) offered service to ...

Facebook has begun rolling out an update that is interfering with watchdogs monitoring the platform. The Markup has found evidence that Facebook is adding changes to its website code that foils ...

In these muddled times, at least one thing is clear: Nearly everyone’s tracking you, always. But there is one area that has been largely off-limits to digital data collectors for 20 years: podcast ...