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Alex Salkever
Fortune: Facebook, Google, and Twitter Could’ve Prevented the Russian Ads. Why Didn’t They?
Representatives from Facebook, Twitter, and Google are set to face hostile questionsfrom Congress about how Russia used their platforms to influence U.S. politics. The ...
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Fortune: When Baby Genes Are for Sale, the Rich Will Pay
Designer babies are coming in 20 to 30 years. Your children will be able to select, to some degree, their ...
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Washington Post: How the United States is reinventing itself yet again
We have moved from the Great Recession to the Great Malaise. Despite massive government stimulus, the world’s largest and most ...
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TechCrunch – To Prevent Another Flint Make All Open Data Machine Readable
The lead poisoning of the entire city of Flint, Michigan was preventable and should never have happened. Numerous pundits and ...
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LinkedIn – Robots Will Eat 3.8 Million Fast Food Jobs: The Question is Not If But When
Meet Flippy, the flagship robot of Pasadena, California company Miso Robotics. Flippy is a kitchen assistant who will man the ...
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LinkedIn – Growing Trouble with Rogue Drones
The Western U.S. is facing a new summer of wildfires and drought. Unfortunately, the planes and brave pilots combatting the ...
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Huffington Post – We Should Absolutely Let the Robots Drive
A Google robot car was pulled over in Mountain View for driving too slowly. Yes, you read that right. The ...
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@kpoulsen: Dominion's defamation complaint against @RudyGiuliani is worth reading just for its catalog of the low-rent hucksterism that surrounded a disinformation surge that led to five deaths at the Capitol. https://t.co/2Qs8Rr58wd https://t.co/8F2iTY2ZHm
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When @wadhwa and I wrote about how you needed Big Government for COVID Vaccination Planning, this is exactly what we mean. Chaotic notification and distribution makes it impossible for states to do their job well. https://t.co/hxHRoLkBR4
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@peteskomoroch Kinda reminds of the current plight of AI. When the folks who control it believe that their massive pools of data will give them an edge, then the only type of AI we get is AI that relies on large models.