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US Issues Hacking Security Alert for Small Planes

|| Internet/Privacy || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)

The Department of Homeland Security issued a security alert Tuesday for small planes, warning that modern flight systems are vulnerable to hacking if someone manages to gain physical access to the aircraft.

URL ⇲ https://apnews.com/article/technology-hacking-business-ap-t…



What Will Smart Homes Look Like 10 Years From Now?

|| 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?

URL ⇲ https://time.com/5634791/smart-homes-future/?utm_source=tim…



‘Deepfakes’ Trigger a Race to Fight Manipulated Photos and Videos

|| 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.

URL ⇲ https://www.wsj.com/articles/deepfakes-trigger-a-race-to-fi…



Fitbits and other wearables may not accurately track heart rates in people of color

|| 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.

URL ⇲ https://www.statnews.com/2019/07/24/fitbit-accuracy-dark-sk…



Despite High Hopes, Self-Driving Cars Are ‘Way in the Future’

|| 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.

URL ⇲ https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/17/business/self-driving-au…



What the Superhuman Controversy Reveals About the Shifting Ethics of Software

|| 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. This has caused outrage, but this pixel-tracking technology has been widely-employed by marketers for years.

URL ⇲ https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/what-th…



Elon Musk Wants to Read Your Brain

|| 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. The current viability of this product and the potential viability of this tech is also discussed.

URL ⇲ https://onezero.medium.com/elon-musk-wants-to-read-your-bra…



Watch Elon Musk’s original Neuralink presentation

|| Future of Work || Video || Long (10+ min)

Elon Musk's Neuralink presentation at a July 2019 press conference.

URL ⇲ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lA77zsJ31nA&ab_channel=CNET



An Integrated Brain-Machine Interface Platform with Thousands of Channels

|| Future of Work || Report || Long (10+ min)

The Neuralink whitepaper released in 2019.

URL ⇲ https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6204648-Neuralink-W…



Europe eyes stricter rules on facial recognition

|| 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 protections.

URL ⇲ https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-facial-recognition-f…