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Major tech platforms have been given six months to come up with an enforceable code that protects children from harmful material online. What might that look like?
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Residents of drone delivery trial sites say the initial novelty has worn off and concerns about long-term impacts are growing
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Social media platforms need to open up data to Africans and researchers in the global south.
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The Department of Justice will have to prove that Apple’s ‘closed’ platforms have hurt rather than helped its customers.
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New research by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism about the effects of AI on news organisations reveals big challenges ahead.
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Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, Tesla and Nvidia have driven a bull market rally in US stocks in 2023. But will they dominate in 2024?
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If the CMA concludes the partnership is in fact a merger, it will start looking into whether this has reduced competition.
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Traditional capitalists are still flourishing, but according to Yanis Varoufakis they are not driving the economy like they used to.
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Laughter is one of the most ubiquitous and pleasurable things humans do, which is why companies online want to know what we find funny.
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The iPhone already has an accelerometer, gyroscope, light meter, microphone, camera and GPS. Why does Apple now want you to tell it how you’re feeling?
Meta’s Threads platform experienced a significant drop in users recently.
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The recent declines of Threads and ChatGPT attest to the reality that rapid and widespread acceptance doesn’t necessarily lead to long-term success.
AI chatbots are becoming more powerful, but how do you know if they’re working in your best interest?
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It’s difficult to see how artificial intelligence systems work, and to see whose interests they work for. Regulation could make AI more trustworthy. Until then, user beware.
Threads is the latest social media platform to try to take on Twitter.
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In the marketplace of ideas, for an app or product to be considered successful, it must be widely adopted for it to represent an innovation.
An Australian law meant to force tech companies to fund news media lacks transparency in terms of how much money some outlets have received.
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Australia’s law to force tech giants like Meta and Google to pay media organizations has not always meant better outcomes for journalism. Will the same happen in Canada?
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Many point to Meta’s failings to make a case for mixed reality headsets having no future. But Apple’s approach is arguably much more strategic.
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Social media algorithms can use millions of different parameters to decide what kind of content is shown to users.
Catching a ride for free?
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As a society, everyone is motivated to regulate AI development. For individual companies, though, the opposite is true.
You don’t have to see the future to know that AI has ethical baggage.
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Generative AI is designed to produce the unforeseen, but that doesn’t mean developers can’t predict the types of social consequences it may cause.
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Pausing AI development will give our governments and culture time to catch up with and steer the rush of new technology.
Over the past decade, a number of companies, think tanks and institutions have developed responsible innovation initiatives to forecast and mitigate the negative consequences of tech development. But how successful have they been?
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When OpenAI claims to be “developing technologies that empower everyone,” who is included in the term “everyone?” And in what context will this “power” be wielded?