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Jun 8, 2020 • 7min
Schools Turn to Surveillance Tech to Prevent Covid-19 Spread
Administrators hope tracking beacons will identify where students congregate and who should be isolated if someone contracts the coronavirus.
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Jun 5, 2020 • 8min
Tech Companies Denounce Racism. Will Silicon Valley Change?
The killing of George Floyd elicited corporate outrage, and some donations. But well-intentioned rhetoric has not always been followed by meaningful action.
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Jun 4, 2020 • 10min
Trump's Tweets Force Twitter Into a High-Wire Act
By hiding but not deleting the president's tweets, the platform has struck a difficult balance to approach a nearly impossible situation.
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Jun 3, 2020 • 7min
Facebook Employees Take the Rare Step to Call Out Mark Zuckerberg
Some workers at the social media giant are publicly criticizing decisions not to remove or flag misleading posts by President Trump.
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Jun 2, 2020 • 8min
Remote Work Has Its Perks, Until You Want a Promotion
Companies like Facebook and Twitter expect many employees to work far from headquarters after the pandemic. That calls for a change in corporate cultures.
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Jun 1, 2020 • 9min
Everyone's Ordering Delivery, but Apps Aren't Making Money
With dining rooms closed, more people are using Uber Eats, Grubhub, and DoorDash. But the services face a challenge to satisfy both consumers and restaurants.Â
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May 29, 2020 • 6min
It's Called Artificial Intelligence—but What Is Intelligence?
We’ve built machines that are capable of incredible feats, yet still they have nothing on a baby.
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May 28, 2020 • 6min
Are AI-Powered Killer Robots Inevitable?
Military scholars warn of a “battlefield singularity,” a point at which humans can no longer keep up with the pace of conflict.
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May 27, 2020 • 6min
As Machines Get Smarter, How Will We Relate to Them?
Millennia of evolution have left us ill prepared to crack open the black box of AI and peer inside.
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May 26, 2020 • 6min
On Earth, the Economy Is Tanking. In the Cloud, It's Fine
Amid the pandemic, life has moved online. That's good news for the tech giants that run data centers, and the companies that supply them.
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