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Airtag tracks stolen car 11,000km from Canada to Middle East
Apple tracking device hidden by owner after previous car was
stolen
LAW
Amazon Fined $35M in France for 'Overly Intrusive’ Employee
Monitoring
Amazon says the ruling is 'factually incorrect'; it’s
considering appealing the decision.
Cops Used DNA to Predict a Suspect’s Face—and Tried to Run Facial Recognition on It
Police around the US say they're justified to run
DNA-generated 3D models of faces through facial recognition tools to help crack
cold cases. Everyone but the cops thinks that’s a bad idea.
WOMEN IN TECH
More women will found unicorns over the next 10 years
A decade after coining the term “unicorn” to describe
startups with a $1 billion valuation, Cowboy Ventures founder Aileen Lee says
the next 10 years need better capital efficiency and increased diversity. The
number startups that qualify as unicorns has ballooned from 39 in 2013 to 532
today—and while the proportion of women in leadership at these companies has
grown over the last ten years, too, that figure hasn’t quite surged in the same
way as the number of unicorns has.
CYBERSECURITY
More than 300 million people have been impacted by data
leaks. This is how we can take back control
The CEO of Cloaked observes that we’re at an inflection
point where we can choose to keep going down this dark hole of data
accessibility or we can take action to keep more data from getting out.
OPINION
I used LinkedIn as my only social media for 3 weeks. Here’s
what happened
Social media is fracturing. What you’ll learn by going all
in on the professional LinkedIn as your sole social outlet.
AI
AI far too expensive to replace humans in most jobs, MIT
study finds
Artificial intelligence can’t replace the majority of jobs
right now in cost-effective ways, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
found in a study that sought to address fears about AI replacing humans in a
swath of industries.
SAP to restructure 8,000 jobs in push towards AI, shares hit record
The German software firm forecast growth in cloud
revenue and said it will restructure 8,000 jobs to focus on AI-driven areas.
The company said it will spend 2 billion euros on the program to either retrain
employees with AI skills or to replace them through voluntary redundancy.
Akutagawa Prize draws controversy after win for work that used ChatGPT
In recent years, the Akutagawa Prize has diversified its
recipient pool: In 2022, the shortlist was all female writers, last year Saou
Ichikawa was the first author with a severe physical disability to win and this
week marked the first time artificial intelligence walked away with a piece of
the prestigious literary award.
Research
Is Google getting worse? This is what leading computer scientists say
It’s not just you—the search engine superpower does have a spam problem, a new study claims.
IMAGETWIN
Dana-Farber retractions: meet the blogger who spotted
problems in dozens of cancer papers
Nature talks to Sholto David about his process for flagging
image manipulation and his tips for scientists under scrutiny.
Cool Technology
British spy agency releases previously secret images of
Colossus computer
Britain's hush hush Government Communications Headquarters
(GCHQ) intelligence and security organization has released new images never
before made public of Colossus, the world's first digital electronic computer,
to mark its 80th anniversary.
Wild Apples: The 12 weirdest and rarest Macs ever made
Since 1984, Apple has made some strange Macintosh computers.
How many have you used?
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