Apple Sacrifices MacBook Pro Launch For iPad Pro Success
March’s Apple launch featured an interesting decision by Tim Cook and his team. With one of the most sought after updates to the MacBook...
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Motorola Moto G8 Plus Price in India | Review
A lot is happening in the sub-10k category of smartphones. Motorola recently released the Moto G8 Plus which marks the return of the Moto G-lineup in the lower mid-range segment and also the ending of the Motorola One series. Motorola always tries to offer its customers features found in devices a segment above with the G-series smartphones. This time the...
AI is An Ideology, Not A Technology
A leading anxiety in both the technology and foreign policy worlds today is China’s purported edge in the artificial intelligence race. The usual narrative goes like this: Without the constraints on data collection that liberal democracies impose and with the capacity to centrally direct greater resource allocation, the Chinese will outstrip the West. AI is hungry for more and more...
Not all young people are ‘digital natives’
There is a belief that younger people are fully engaged with the digital world. But I am currently leading a project exploring people’s knowledge and use of online data, and the preliminary findings from our research has found that data literacy is not uniformly high among younger people, as is often assumed. Instead, some young people have very low levels...
This stance-detecting AI will check fake news
Fighting fake news has become a growing problem in the past few years, and one that begs for a solution involving artificial intelligence. Verifying the near-infinite amount of content being generated on news websites, video streaming services, blogs, social media, etc. is virtually impossible. There has been a push to use machine learning in the moderation of online content, but those...
Amazon cancels re:MARS 2020 event amid COVID-19 outbreak
Amazon has canceled re:MARS 2020, an annual AI event that focuses on machine learning, automation, robotics and space, over concerns about the COVID-19 pandemic. The event was scheduled to be held June 16 to 19, 2020 in Las Vegas. Organizers of the event said in a statement on its website that the event will be cancelled and guests who purchased...
Facial Recognition Technology Is Taking Over Schools — And Students Aren’t OK With It
During the first two months of 2020, there were at least 26 incidents of gunfire on school grounds in the United States, part of a devastating nationwide epidemic that shows no signs of letting up. While legislators, parents, and students themselves are tirelessly fighting to keep kids safe at school, their tactics vary in efficacy and enthusiasm: Bulletproof shields, clear...
Coronavirus is creating new businesses, from robots to anti-spitting hats
The outbreak of the novel coronavirus is crashing global markets and affecting everything from air travel to the film industry to local businesses. Still, some companies stand to benefit somehow from this outbreak, which has now spread to scores of countries and infected more than 100,000 people. They include firms that sell deep-cleaning products, remote services like Peloton and Zoom,...
Robinhood: $200M loan during Wall Street crash unrelated to downtime
Popular trading app Robinhood recently maxed out a major credit line in response to suffering multiple system-wide outages. The Menlo Park startup withdrew its entire $200 million credit facility with prominent banks JP Morgan Chase, Barclays, and Citibank during the week of February 24, the outlet’s sources said. A spokesperson told reporters that Robinhood had already repaid the borrowed money,...
Zumper raises $60M to double down on tech to grow its apartment rentals platform
The apartment rental market in the US will be worth $174.1 billion this year, and today a startup that’s built a platform to help it along by connecting renters with rentals is announcing a round of funding to fuel its growth. Zumper, which provides listings of available rental properties and services (such as rent payments) to help manage landlords’ rental...
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