A new generation of artificial intelligence is taking on hackers
Microsoft, Google, Amazon and various startups are deploying machine-learning algorithms that crunch massive amounts of data on logins, behavior and previous attacks to ferret out...
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Devices that will invade your life in 2019 (and what’s overhyped)
AI that responds to your voice. Next-generation wireless networks. If this year’s biggest consumer technology trends have a familiar ring, there’s a reason for that.
Privacy groups urge tech firms to sign Safe Face Pledge to restrict use of facial recognition
The pledge unveiled by the Algorithmic Justice League and Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown University asks companies not to provide facial AI for autonomous weapons...
AI talent scouts may spur unorthodox hires, and maybe lower pay VIEW
Thanks to sophisticated algorithms that match workers and jobs, many employers may soon have access to a universe of prospective workers whom they might not...
Microsoft calls for laws to control facial-recognition technology and protect public
Microsoft recommended that tech companies be required to publish documents that explain their technology’s capabilities and limitations and that people be told when facial recognition...
How cheap labor drives China’s AI ambitions
The ability to tag image data may be China’s true AI strength, the only one that the United States may not be able to match....
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