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What’s the Role of Social Media in the News Media?

December 14, 2016December 14, 2016 by John Daniell

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Published By: PRI (Public Radio International), 12/10/2016 >> View the Article << Summary Fake news stories shared on social media played a major role in the spread of misinformation during the 2016 U.S. elections and after, even spurring…

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Uber Launches Artificial Intelligence Lab

December 13, 2016December 14, 2016 by Nnamdi Onwumere

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Published By: BBC News, 12/5/2016 >> View the Article << Summary Uber has acquired an artificial intelligence (AI) startup, Geometric Intelligence, and put the team to work on (among other things) self-driving cars. The company already…

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Google’s DeepMind AI Can Lip-Read TV Shows Better Than a Pro

December 2, 2016December 13, 2016 by Michael Morguarge

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Published By: New Scientist, 11/21/2016 >> View the Article << Summary The researchers at Google have trained an AI how to lip-read TV shows. Such an AI system could be used to help humans communicate with…

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UK Surveillance Law Marks a “Worse Than Scary” Shift

November 30, 2016December 13, 2016 by John Daniell

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Published By: CNET, 11/29/2016 >> View the Article << Summary The Investigatory Powers Act, recently passed in the UK, will require telecom companies to store records of phone calls and websites visited for up to a…

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Neural Network Learns to Identify Criminals by Their Faces

November 29, 2016December 13, 2016 by Anna Clark

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Published By: MIT Technology Review, 11/22/2016 >> View the Article << Summary Researchers from Jiao Tong University in China have applied facial recognition algorithms to guess whether a person has a criminal history based upon their…

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Machine-Learning Algorithm Can Show Whether State Secrets Are Properly Classified

November 18, 2016November 18, 2016 by Julia Bernd

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Published By: MIT Technology Review, 11/14/2016 >> View the Article << Summary Researchers from Columbia University and a Brazilian think tank have developed a machine-learning algorithm to predict whether now-declassified U.S. State Department cables from the…

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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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AI Predicts Outcomes of Human Rights Trials

October 28, 2016November 10, 2016 by John Daniell

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Published By: University College London/UCL News, 10/24/2016 >> View the Article << Summary Artificial intelligence has recently been used to predict (past) judicial decisions in the European Court of Human Rights to a surprising degree of accuracy.…

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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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Contract Expiration to End U.S. Authority Over Internet IP Addresses

October 7, 2016October 6, 2016 by Michael Morguarge

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Published By: The Washington Post, 9/30/2016 >> View the Article << Summary The contract that specified the U.S. government's oversight over Internet address assignment has expired and ICANN (an international NGO) now has full control. ICANN holds…

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