From its Skagit County site and elsewhere, Bellevue-based PACCAR is among companies leading the charge in creating autonomous trucking. Successes could lead to a major shake-up in the freight industry. Unions worry about the loss of trucking jobs.
Seattle and Israel’s AI ecosystem have long had close ties, from Microsoft's and Amazon’s acquisitions of Israeli startups to ongoing academic collaborations. Those ties include a global surveillance network that has also raised concerns among human rights experts. WATCH
The new Portland facial-recognition ban prohibits businesses from collecting, using or storing people’s facial or biometric information gathered in spaces open to the public, such...
A high-tech analysis of 40 intersections in Bellevue found that near misses in which crashes nearly occur are a reliable predictor of where future crashes...
TikTok has no shortage of data in the form of videos, billions of which are uploaded to the service every year. Microsoft can feed all...
This year is likely to be remembered for the COVID-19 pandemic and for a significant presidential election, but there is a new contender for the...
The job-cutting move comes six weeks after the company announced it was letting go of its entire stable of editorial contract workers involved in its...
Robots' roles at work and home have grown since the novel coronavirus spread around the world. They rove. They disinfect. They make drinks. They even...
A proposal would give scientists access to huge data sets and powerful computers.
's facial-recognition technology, the software falsely matched 28 members of Congress, many of them minorities, with mug shots of arrested people from police files. Now,...
In what may be the first known case of its kind, a faulty facial recognition match led to a Michigan man’s arrest for a crime...
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