|| Facial Recognition || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Facial recognition is making a comeback in the United States as bans to thwart the technology and curb racial bias in policing come under threat amid a surge in crime and increased lobbying from developers.
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The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board has opened multiple investigations into fatal Tesla crashes involving its Autopilot system.
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Walmart and Silicon Valley start-up Gatik said that, since August, they’ve operated two autonomous box trucks, without a safety driver, on a 7-mile loop daily for 12 hours.
|| Algorithmic Bias || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
New work led by several universities, including Johns Hopkins, shows that neural networks built from biased Internet data teach robots to enact toxic stereotypes
|| Algorithmic Bias || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Company pays $3,500 to Bogdan Kulynych who demonstrated flaw in image cropping software
|| Algorithmic Bias || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
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Software developers and city governments are rethinking how and when to use algorithms that promise to curb crime
|| Facial Recognition || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
U.S. lawmakers are moving ahead with efforts to ban facial recognition software even as the technology helps identify supporters of President Donald Trump who ransacked their workplace and forced them to evacuate this month.
|| Health and Medical Applications || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
A group of quantum computing experts are raising ethical concerns about the technology’s potential to accelerate human DNA manipulation.
|| Security || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Cyber criminals know that working from home can provide them with an easier way into corporate networks - resulting in a rise in attacks targeting remote devices.