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|| Transportation Applications || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
A Silicon Valley startup has completed what appears to be the first commercial freight cross-country trip by an autonomous truck, which finished a 2,800-mile-run from Tulare, California to Quakertown, Pennsylvania for Land O’Lakes in under three days.
|| Internet/Privacy || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
The technologies Facebook uses to put advertising it deems relevant in front of people may be more responsible for the polarization of American politics than previously understood, a team of researchers has concluded.
|| Internet/Privacy || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min)
A new law would give the country’s 1.3 billion people more power over data collected by companies but allow the government to exempt itself from the rules.
|| Health and Medical Applications || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Discussions are raised around the black boxes that are deep learning models, particularly in medical applications like mammography.
|| Internet/Privacy || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min)
China's genetic research on ethnic minorities raises concerns by the global scientific community, who fear that the government may be using this information to spy on and oppress people.
|| Health and Medical Applications || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min)
Beijing’s pursuit of control over a Muslim ethnic group pushes the rules of science and raises questions about consent.
|| Security || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
The FBI issues a statement that smart TVs can make it easier for malicious actors to hack into insecure devices.
|| Misinformation || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min)
Researchers are creating tools to find A.I.-generated fake videos before they become impossible to detect. Some experts fear it is a losing battle.
|| Future of Work || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min)
Some workers may be more exposed to artificial intelligence than previously thought. But worry more about automation’s threat to less skilled employees.
|| Internet/Privacy || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min)
Eight of the top 10 most surveilled cities in the world are in China, and they are far from the only nation using surveillance tech in the name of citizen protection.
|| Misinformation || Video || Long (10+ min)
Video and excerpts from actor Sacha Baron Cohen's acceptance speech for the ADL’s International Leadership Award.
|| Algorithmic Bias || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
David Heinemeier Hansson, a Danish entrepreneur and developer, said in tweets last week that his wife, Jamie Hansson, was denied a credit line increase for the Apple Card, despite having a higher credit score than him.
|| Health and Medical Applications || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Google is engaged with one of the U.S.’s largest health-care systems on a project to collect and crunch the detailed personal-health information of millions of people across 21 states. However, neither patients nor doctors have been notified.
|| Algorithmic Bias || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min)
Researchers say computer systems are learning from lots and lots of digitized books and news articles that could bake old attitudes into new technology.
|| Health and Medical Applications || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
CRISPR is used in the US for the first time on three patients to alter immune system cells to help them recognize and fight cancer, with minimal side effects at the time of reporting.
|| Robotics Applications || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
The US Army is developing robots that can operate autonomously and ask questions to deal with ambiguities, which both increases efficiency between teams and robots, but are still too slow and not resilient enough for use.
|| Facial Recognition || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Police Scotland has unveiled a new aerial drone system to help in searches for missing and vulnerable people.Its recognition software is compact enough to be run on a phone, with the technology learning as it goes.
|| Health and Medical Applications || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
New York City study shows that drones could deliver life-saving medical supplies several minutes before an ambulance arrives, which could be used to increase the chance of survival.
|| Health and Medical Applications || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Through anonymously processed medical data, companies like Future Care Lab creating technology to meet elder users' needs, and the use of virtual reality to help caregivers empathize with their patients, Japan has been leveraging digitization to improve care for their agi
|| Health and Medical Applications Internet/Privacy || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
The University of Washington finds that GEDmatch is vulnerable to security risks that would allow malicious actors to extract individual's genetic markers, or construct a fake profile to impersonate a user's relative.