The “AI is fake and sucks” people who take phony comfort in their AI skepticism need to accept that AI is more real and dangerous than they currently admit
It's fun to say that artificial intelligence is fake and sucks — but evidence is mounting that it's real and dangerous — I. Bluesky: @matrig.net , @rickywlmsbong , @rjcc , @avellino , @robert.blue ,...
Google CEO Sundar Pichai says GDPR shows that “regulation can get it wrong” and “we are still a small part of the overall information ecosystem”
For Google, the Techlash arrived with a vengeance last week. After years of mounting angst about the power of Big Tech … Tweets: @rikefranke , @financialtimes , @rachelcoldicutt , @mikebutcher , and ...
A look at 493 COVID related iOS apps across 98 countries including each app's permissions requests, developer location and embedded SDKs, sorted by categories
Health and Fitness - Pandemic: The Next App Store Genre? — Since the Coronavirus pandemic began, a host of Covid-19 applications have emerged. Tweets: @d1gi , @rachelcoldicutt , @seanmmcdonald , @ju...
Amazon responds to JEDI decision, calling it a “politically corrupted contract award” and attacks Trump's role in steering the award away from AWS
Again— In Blow To Amazon Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols / ZDNet : Amazon calls JEDI cloud decision ‘politically corrupted’ by Trump Alyse Stanley / Gizmodo : DoD: Sorry, Amazon, Microsoft's Still Getting T...
The BBC releases first beta of Beeb, its English language voice assistant, to UK Windows Insider members, with an ability to understand a range of UK accents
but Amazon won't be worried Jon Porter / The Verge : BBC releases its own ‘Beeb’ voice assistant in beta Rachel Thompson / Mashable : BBC launches voice assistant that will learn regional accents Dami...
An in-depth look at the global efforts to push back against planned obsolescence in tech products, a scandalous practice, especially amid the COVID-19 pandemic
John Harris / The Guardian : Tweets: @dingos1946 , @jonathanwatts , and @rachelcoldicutt Tweets: @dingos1946 : “feature of modern manufacturing known as planned obsolescence. This is the idea that so...