An Algorithm Blocked Kidney Transplants to Black Patients
Black people in the US suffer more from chronic diseases and receive inferior health care relative to white people. Racially
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How Police Can Crack Locked Phones—and Extract Information
Smartphone security measures have grown increasingly sophisticated in recent years, evolving from passcodes to thumbprints to face recognition and advanced
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Devolver Digital have acquired Serious Sam developers Croteam
Not-so-serious publishers Devolver Digital have announced today in a not-so-serious post that they’ve acquired Serious Sam developers Croteam. Seriously. Well,
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Deals. Profits. Lock-in. Behind the DOJ Case Against Google
For the better part of a year, the tech world has wondered what, exactly, the Department of Justice’s long-rumored antitrust
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Companies Are Rushing to Use AI—but Few See a Payoff
At some DHL shipping centers, artificial intelligence now helps employees make sure pallets will load safely into cargo planes. A
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Give These Apps Some Notes and They’ll Write Emails for You
Michael Shuffett didn’t waste any keystrokes when responding to a message about the automated email writer he’s building. He tapped
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Clarence Thomas Wants to Rethink Internet Speech. Be Afraid
But I suspect a different line of thinking inspired the Thomas comment. A Supreme Court justice’s public reservations about Section
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Cruise Will Soon Hit San Francisco With No Hands on the Wheel
Last week, Waymo, the self-driving-vehicle developer owned by Alphabet, expanded a first-of-its-kind service offering rides to paying passengers around Phoenix—with
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This Camera App Is Designed to Fight Fake News
On the internet nobody knows where or when you took that photo of a dog. Images can be reused and
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How to Design a Supersonic Plane for the (Fairly Rich) Masses
Then there’s the issue of Concorde’s infamous racket on takeoff and the ear-splitting sonic booms that followed it when it
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