|| Facial Recognition || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Nearly a year ago, Amazon said it would stop providing its facial-recognition software, Rekognition, to police for a year. Now it appears that ban won’t be ending any time soon — if ever.
|| Collection and Storage of Data || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Chains plan to use information they collect on vaccine recipients to promote stores, tailor marketing.
|| Algorithmic Bias || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Researchers found the platform’s algorithms promoted roles to certain users; company pledges to continue work in removing bias from recommendations
|| Security || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
FragAttacks let hackers inject malicious code or commands into encrypted Wi-Fi traffic.
|| Health and Medical Applications || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
A feature on MIT's Media Lab, including an agricultural project involving food computers.
|| Ethical Hacking/Role of Designers || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
A French cryptographer exposes a security breach that allows access to voters' choices after a Russian radio station issues a public challenge to test the system.
|| Health and Medical Applications || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
A study finds that two-thirds of Europeans surveyed would consider human augmentation. The article breaks down the study to see how location, age, gender impacted responses, and what concerns people had.
|| Health and Medical Applications Security || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Cyber security researchers uncovered an online attack that tricks scientists into creating toxic chemicals or deadly viruses in their own labs by replacing ordered sequences with malicious ones.
|| Health and Medical Applications || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Experts at the University of Tokyo are combining machine learning with brain imaging tools to distinguish between those with a mental health condition, specifically schizophrenia and autism.