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Aug 17, 2020 • 4min
Uber's Now a Food Delivery Company—and It's Still Losing Money
The pandemic has slashed demand for rides and boosted orders for UberEats. Neither segment is profitable.
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Aug 14, 2020 • 6min
As Restaurants Move to the Cloud, Something Is Missing
Thousands of eateries are closing amid the pandemic. Delivery specialists are popping up, but some worry about a loss of culture and community.
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Aug 13, 2020 • 7min
Cheap, Easy Deepfakes Are Getting Closer to the Real Thing
Using open source software and less than $100, a researcher was able to create plausible images and audio of actor Tom Hanks.
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Aug 12, 2020 • 8min
What’s This? A Bipartisan Plan for AI and National Security
Republican Will Hurd and Democrat Robin Kelly want more Pentagon spending, a Cold War-style “hotline,” and a curb on chip exports to China.
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Aug 11, 2020 • 9min
Facebook Has More to Learn From the Ad Boycott
Rashad Robinson, an organizer behind the Stop Hate for Profit boycott, says civil rights groups can’t be left to police the company by themselves.
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Aug 10, 2020 • 17min
Bill Gates on Covid: Most US Tests Are ‘Completely Garbage’
The techie-turned-philanthropist on vaccines, Trump, and why social media is “a poisoned chalice.”
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Aug 7, 2020 • 8min
Stop Saying Facebook Is ‘Too Big to Moderate’
The social media company could surely enforce its own rules on false and harmful posts—it just needs to cut into its massive profit margins.
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Aug 6, 2020 • 6min
The Facebook and Amazon Documents That Captivated the Hearing
Here's a look at how Mark Zuckerberg plotted the Instagram acquisition. Plus: Inside Amazon's plan to take down Diapers.com.
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Aug 5, 2020 • 7min
AI Is All the Rage. So Why Aren’t More Businesses Using It?
A big study by the US Census Bureau finds that only about 9 percent of firms employ tools like machine learning or voice recognition—for now.
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Aug 4, 2020 • 10min
Facebook’s ‘Red Team’ Hacks Its Own AI Programs
Attackers increasingly try to confuse and bypass machine-learning systems. So the companies that deploy them are getting creative.
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