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These Virtual Obstacle Courses Help Real Robots Learn to Walk
Researchers used specialized chips and simulation software to teach a four-legged robot to navigate stairs and blocks. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The Government Wants to Bolster Its Tech—Starting With Workers
Robin Carnahan, head of the agency that manages the federal government's offices and IT, is revamping job descriptions and pushing remote work. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Borrowed a School Laptop? Mind Your Open Tabs
Students—many from lower-income households—were likely to use school-issued devices for remote learning. But the devices often contained monitoring software. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
A True Story About Bogus Photos of People Making Fake News
A photographer set out to capture the misinformation producers in a small town in Macedonia. He wound up revealing uncomfortable truths about his own profession. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Weighing Big Tech’s Promise to Black America
Last year, Netflix made a pledge that represents the tech industry’s best shot at redressing the nation’s racial inequality. How seriously should we take it? Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Clearview AI Has New Tools to Identify You in Photos
In an interview with WIRED, CEO Hoan Ton-That said the company has scraped 10 billion photos from the web—and developed new ways to aid police surveillance. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Bring on the Fist Bumps and Nasal Swabs—Tech Conferences Are Back
Hundreds of (vaccinated) attendees gathered in a Beverly Hills hotel ballroom as Code Conference returned after a year-long hiatus. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
China's Sweeping Cryptocurrency Ban Was Inevitable
The decentralized technology clashes with the government’s plans for a state-dominated economy—one that includes its own digital currency. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Soon Your Google Searches Can Combine Text and Images
With the help of AI, you’ll be able to take a picture of a shirt, then ask Google to find socks with the same pattern. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
This Software Aims to Make Your Flight Smoother—and Help the Planet
Airplanes taxiing isn't just annoying—it's a big source of emissions. The FAA and NASA created a new system to save time and fuel. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Why Tesla Is Designing Chips to Train Its Self-Driving Tech
Developing AI is costly and time-consuming. Custom silicon can give companies an edge. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
These Deepfake Voices Can Help Trans Gamers
Players of online games can be harassed when their voices don't match their gender identity. New AI-fueled software may help. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
AI Can Write Code Like Humans—Bugs and All
New tools that help developers write software also generate similar mistakes. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
It’s Time to Talk About Facebook Research
Plus: Adam Mosseri on News Feeds, remote drivers for cars, and a pickle for Greenland. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
How Computationally Complex Is a Single Neuron?
Scientists taught an artificial neural network to imitate a biological neuron. The result offers a new way to think about the complexity of brain cells. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The Elizabeth Holmes Trial Is Underway. Silicon Valley Is Watching
“I’m glad the ‘Fake it till you make it’ mantra of Silicon Valley is coming into question,” one investor told WIRED. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Google Is Getting Caught in the Global Antitrust Net
As more governments force US tech companies to change how they do business, one case in Turkey cuts to the heart of the search giant’s power. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
A Stanford Proposal Over AI's 'Foundations' Ignites Debate
A research paper that dubs some artificial intelligence models "foundational" is sparking a dispute over the future of the field. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Community Pharmacies Stepped Up During Covid—and Changed for Good
Pharmacies have long been perceived as commodities. Now, they’re a central tool for removing barriers to health care. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
In the US, the AI Industry Risks Becoming Winner-Take-Most
A new study illustrates just how geographically concentrated AI activity has become. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
El Salvador’s Bitcoin Gamble Is Off to a Rocky Start
Enthusiasm, fear, and light shows usher the country into the age of cryptocurrency. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
An Explosion in Geofence Warrants Threatens Privacy Across the US
New figures from Google show a tenfold increase in the requests from law enforcement, which target anyone who happened to be in a given location at a specified time. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The $150 Million Machine Keeping Moore’s Law Alive
ASML’s next-generation extreme ultraviolet lithography machines achieve previously unattainable levels of precision, which means chips can keep shrinking for years to come. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
GM Recalls Every Chevy Bolt Ever Made Over Faulty Batteries
The automaker is recalling the electric vehicle after investigating two manufacturing defects linked to car fires. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Gavin Newsom’s Recall Election Divides Silicon Valley’s Elite
How the tech world’s unique brand of politics is shaping the fight over who governs California. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
A New Chip Cluster Will Make Massive AI Models Possible
Cerebras says its technology can run a neural network with 120 trillion connections—a hundred times what's achievable today. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Lina Khan’s Theory of the Facebook Antitrust Case Takes Shape
With a beefed-up complaint, the Federal Trade Commission explains precisely why it thinks the social media giant is an illegal monopoly. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
AI Can Write in English. Now It's Learning Other Languages
Startups in Germany, China, Israel, and elsewhere are following the path blazed by GPT-3—with local twists. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Tesla Promised a Robot. Was It Just a Recruiting Pitch?
The highlight of an event aimed at AI whizzes was a human simulating a robot that might someday replace a human. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Looking for a New Job in Tech? It’s Your Lucky Day
Flexible WFH policies, signing bonuses, fancy cookies—employers are turning on the charm to attract engineers and developers to their firms. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The Push for Ad Agencies to Ditch Big Oil Clients
An activist coalition is pressuring firms to stop promoting fossil fuel companies—some of which have advertised oil and gas as “climate friendly.” Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Apple and Google Are Gearing Up to Fight a New App Store Bill
The Open App Markets Act would relax the tech giants’ grip on the app economy. But a PR campaign against it is already underway. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Now That Machines Can Learn, Can They Unlearn?
Privacy concerns about AI systems are growing. So researchers are testing whether they can remove sensitive data without retraining the system from scratch. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
How an Obscure Green Bay Packers Site Became the Biggest Thing on Facebook
The social media giant's new transparency report mostly succeeds in showing the extent of its spam problem. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
New Regulation Could Cause a Split in the Crypto Community
An article in the Infrastructure Bill led cryptocurrency to acquire a great marker of prestige: a lobby. But can it keep a united front? Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The Feds Are Investigating Tesla Over Autopilot Crashes
The probe will look at 11 accidents, each of which involved a parked emergency vehicle. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Deepfakes Are Now Making Business Pitches
The video technology, initially associated with porn, is gaining a foothold in the corporate world. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
What Airbnb’s Summer Boost Reveals About Covid-19 Recovery
The company’s latest earnings report showed an upsurge in business, but it also hedges expectations for the fall. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Samsung Has Its Own AI-Designed Chip. Soon, Others Will Too
Synopsys, which sells software for designing semiconductors to dozens of companies, is adding artificial intelligence to its arsenal. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
This Device Helps Paralyzed People Breathe—and Sing
Called the Exo-Abs, the robotic device uses artificial intelligence to gauge how much pressure to put on a person’s midsection. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Struggling to Recruit, Police Turn to Targeted Ads
The pandemic and the George Floyd protests have made recruiters’ jobs tougher. Now they’re tapping the behavioral profiling power of social media. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Biden Wants More EVs on Roads. What About Charging Stations?
The president called for 40 percent of new cars to be electric by 2030. But motorists still fret about running out of juice—even if it rarely happens. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
John Deere Doubles Down on Silicon Valley and Robots
The farm-equipment giant is buying Bear Flag Robotics, which makes autonomous tractors, marking its second big tech buy in four years. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
If YouTube Algorithms Radicalize Users, Data Doesn’t Show It
New research tracking people’s behavior on the platform found that most don’t go down those ever-deepening rabbit holes. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
These Algorithms Look at X-Rays—and Somehow Detect Your Race
A study raises new concerns that AI will exacerbate disparities in health care. One issue? The study’s authors aren’t sure what cues are used by the algorithms. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Amazon's Massive GDPR Fine Shows the Law's Power—and Limits
It's the first significant GDPR ruling against Big Tech. But secrecy around the decision exposes the regulation’s flaws. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Facebook’s Reason for Banning Researchers Doesn’t Hold Up
The company says privacy concerns forced it to block access for a team of academics. Whose privacy, exactly? Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
China Cracks Down On Its Tech Giants. Sound Familiar?
Companies like Alibaba, Baidu, and Tencent were once regarded with national pride. Now they’re being slapped with fines and other penalties. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The Pandemic Drives Cofounders to Couples Therapy
Startups are like relationships—at least that’s what some Silicon Valley therapists are pitching. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Toyota Whiffed on EVs. Now It’s Trying to Slow Their Rise
In a bid to protect its investments in hybrids and hydrogen fuel cells, the carmaker is lobbying against the transition to electric vehicles. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices