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|| Internet/Privacy || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Swedish research firm Berg Insight says 63 million American homes will qualify as “smart” by 2022, but what will thee techologies look like, do, and how secure will they be?
|| Facial Recognition || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Startup companies, government agencies and academics are racing to combat deepfakes, amid fears that doctored videos and photographs will be used to sow discord ahead of the U.S. presidential election.
|| Diversity Equity and Inclusion || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
The potential inaccuracies have broad implications for the growing body of scientific research that relies on these wearables, and it begs asking and whether implicit prejudices are shaping their development.
|| Transportation Applications || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min)
Ford and other companies say the industry overestimated the arrival of autonomous vehicles, which still struggle to anticipate what other drivers and pedestrians will do.
|| Health and Medical Applications || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min)
Elon Musk announces his visions for Neuralink, a way to merge one's brains with their computers. These include minimally invasive implant procedures, allowing those with paralysis to gain naturalistic control of their technology.
|| Future of Work || Video || Long (10+ min)
Elon Musk's Neuralink presentation at a July 2019 press conference.
|| Internet/Privacy || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min)
Superhuman, an email productivity software company, is caught spying on its customers through its default read-receipts feature with no way to opt out, giving way for malicious actors to potentially abuse the feature to harm users.
|| Future of Work || Report || Long (10+ min)
The Neuralink whitepaper released in 2019.
|| Facial Recognition || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
European watchdogs are looking to reclassify facial recognition data as "biometric data," which under the GDPR is considered "sensitive data" and requires explicit consent from the person whose data is being collected as well as other stricter privacy prote
|| Facial Recognition || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Brief highlight of the reasons why we ought to be concerned about both sides of the political aisle coming together over federal facial recognition regulation.
|| Facial Recognition || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Though Rekognition has had a seemingly high success rate, it frequently misgenders trans, queer, and non-binary faces, showing how bias can be baked into facial recognition systems.
|| Internet/Privacy || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min)
Hackers launched a cyber attack on the government of Lake City, Florida, disabling the city's computer systems for several days. After working with the FBI they reluctantly paid the ransom. This is just one of a series of ransomware attacks in Florida.
|| Facial Recognition || Media Article
Discusses the complexity behind "reasonable expectation of privacy" after Duke, Stanford, and Yale universities were discovered to be creating databases off surveillance footage of students outdoors, without their knowledge, and made part of a permanent dataset.
|| Internet/Privacy || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Google and the University of Chicago Medical Centre are being sued after hundreds of thousands of patient records were shared without removing date stamps or doctors notes, making it possible for Google to determine the identities of each patient.
|| Internet/Privacy || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
How Yelp is replacing restaurant's real phone numbers with numbers owned by Grubhub so they can record calls and can charge a 15-20% referral fee, unbeknownst to restaurant owners. As of May 2020, NYC has passed a bill to end this practice.
|| Robotics Applications || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
A growing number of real-world researchers and companies are developing tools designed for exactly this task. And, despite what you might initially fear, the results are really promising.
|| Robotics Applications || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Research institutes and companies are rushing to develop care robots for a growing number of senior citizens suffering from dementia to ease the burden on family members who take care of them.
|| Internet/Privacy || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Recent news reports in the last week revealed that Amazon has thousands of workers listening to Amazon Echo aka Alexa voice assistant recordings. The article lists ways to increase your privacy.
|| Internet/Privacy || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Amazon employs a global team that transcribes the voice commands captured after the wake word is detected and feeds them back into the software to help improve Alexa’s grasp of human speech so it can respond more efficiently in the future.