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New Research Center to Explore Ethics of Artificial Intelligence

November 8, 2016November 9, 2016 by John Daniell

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Published By: The New York Times, 11/01/2016 >> View the Article << Summary Carnegie Mellon University has announced it will create a new research center to explore the ethics of artificial intelligence. This topic has increasing importance…

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How Worried Should We Be About Election Hacking?

November 3, 2016November 10, 2016 by Michael Morguarge

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Published By: The Verge, 10/28/2016 >> View the Article << Summary The Verge discusses the possibility of election machine hacking, along with other factors that could affect vote tallying and the results of an election. Extended…

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Quantifying Urban Revitalization

October 27, 2016November 11, 2016 by Jonathan Corley

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Published By: MIT News, 10/24/2016 >> View the Article << Summary Researchers have developed a system that estimates how safe visitors will perceive an area to be based on photographs of the area. The researchers began…

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Large DDoS Attacks Cause Outages at Twitter, Spotify, and Other Sites

October 26, 2016November 11, 2016 by John Daniell

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Published By: TechCrunch, 10/21/2016 >> View the Article << Summary A recent large scale DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack on DNS provider Dyn caused many sites to become temporarily inaccessible, including Twitter, Spotify, and a…

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Social Media Companies Rescind Access to Geofeedia

October 25, 2016November 9, 2016 by Anna Clark

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Published By: The Baltimore Sun, 10/11/2016 >> View the Article << Summary Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram have revoked commercial access to their data by social-media analysis company Geofeedia, which had been providing information obtained on their…

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How Virtual Reality is Being Used to Deliver Mental Health Care

October 17, 2016November 9, 2016 by Michael Morguarge

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Published By: Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 10/11/2016 >> View the Article << Summary Through the use of VR (Virtual Reality), scientists seek to lower the cost and increase the availability of mental health care. They use VR technologies to help…

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Big Data Help CIA Predict Social Unrest 5 Days Before It Begins

October 10, 2016October 13, 2016 by mmaginniss

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Published By: Tech Times, 10/7/2016 >> View the Article << Summary The CIA and their new Directorate of Digital Innovation are working on "anticipatory intelligence" to predict future events. The Deputy Director says that they can…

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Google Weakens Allo Privacy Promises

September 28, 2016September 28, 2016 by mmaginniss

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Published By: Naked Security, 9/21/2016 >> View the Article << Summary Google's new messaging app, Allo, has been criticized because the default settings provide substantially less privacy than Google had previously announced they would. In part, this…

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Was New York’s Mass-Text Manhunt Really Unprecedented?

September 23, 2016December 18, 2017 by Julia Bernd

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Published By: The Verge, 9/20/2016 View the Article  Summary New York City police used the Wireless Emergency Alert system recently to send out a "Wanted" text message about a bombing suspect, and they plan to use…

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Facebook Backs Down From “Napalm Girl” Censorship and Reinstates Photo

September 19, 2016September 23, 2016 by Julia Bernd

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Published By: The Guardian, 9/9/2016 >> View the Article << Summary Facebook recently blocked a news article that reprinted a Vietnam War photo of a naked girl running from a napalm attack. The photo was flagged…

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A Beauty Contest Was Judged by AI and the Robots Didn’t Like Dark Skin

September 9, 2016September 21, 2016 by Julia Bernd

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Published By: The Guardian, 9/8/2016 Summary: Beauty.AI developed a set of algorithms to judge photos according to five factors in human standards of beauty; it disproportionately chose photos of white people. The article discusses the potential…

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The Ad-Blocking Browser That Pays the Sites You Visit

September 7, 2016September 21, 2016 by Julia Bernd

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Published By: Wired, 9/1/2016 Summary: The Brave web browser (released earlier this year) allows only ads that don't track users from site to site; it has now added a feature to record how much time users…

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