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- CDC website built by Deloitte at a cost of $44M is abandoned due to bugs (www.technologyreview.com)
- Apple is suing smartphone emulation software startup Corellium (www.technologyreview.com)
- Scientists who say the lab-leak hypothesis for SARS-CoV-2 shouldn't be ruled out (www.technologyreview.com)
- Google’s top security teams unilaterally shut down a counterterrorism operation (www.technologyreview.com)
- Starlink signals can be reverse-engineered to work like GPS (www.technologyreview.com)
- People who use Notion to plan their whole lives (www.technologyreview.com)
- YouTube’s rules are used to silence human rights activists (www.technologyreview.com)
- People paid to train AI are outsourcing their work to AI (www.technologyreview.com)
- Meta is inviting researchers to pick apart the flaws in its version of GPT-3 (www.technologyreview.com)
- The risky bat-virus engineering that links America to Wuhan (www.technologyreview.com)
- How did Roomba-recorded photos end up on Facebook? (www.technologyreview.com)
- Junk websites filled w AI-generated text pulling in money from programmatic ads (www.technologyreview.com)
- Roomba testers feel misled after intimate images ended up on Facebook (www.technologyreview.com)
- AI hype is built on flawed test scores (www.technologyreview.com)
- Blue Frontier and its energy-efficient AC (www.technologyreview.com)
- Rust went from side project to world’s fastest growing language (www.technologyreview.com)
- Russia killed its tech industry (www.technologyreview.com)
- AI tools have been built to catch Covid, but none of them helped (www.technologyreview.com)
- The return of pneumatic tubes (www.technologyreview.com)
- Cops built a shadowy surveillance machine in Minnesota after George Floyd murder (www.technologyreview.com)
- Battery-swap networks are preventing emergency blackouts (www.technologyreview.com)
- How Facebook got addicted to spreading misinformation (www.technologyreview.com)
- What happened to the microfinance company Kiva? (www.technologyreview.com)
- The WHO-China search for the origins of the coronavirus (www.technologyreview.com)
- Horse-riding astronaut is a milestone in AI’s journey to make sense of the world (www.technologyreview.com)
- Lunik: The CIA’s plot to steal a Soviet satellite (2021) (www.technologyreview.com)
- Rogue superintelligence: Inside the mind of OpenAI's chief scientist (www.technologyreview.com)
- Europe's big tech bill is coming to fruition (www.technologyreview.com)
- Facebook drops funding for interface that reads the brain (www.technologyreview.com)
- Error-riddled data sets are warping our sense of how good AI is (www.technologyreview.com)
- How AI is changing gymnastics judging (www.technologyreview.com)
- After George Floyd’s murder, police built a surveillance machine in Minnesota (www.technologyreview.com)
- Scientists traced a mysterious Covid case back to six toilets (www.technologyreview.com)
- The future of generative AI is niche, not generalized (www.technologyreview.com)
- A new way to make quadratic equations easy (2019) (www.technologyreview.com)
- The 50-year-old P-NP problem that eludes theoretical computer science (www.technologyreview.com)
- How to poison the data that Big Tech uses to surveil you (www.technologyreview.com)
- Restoring an ancient lake from the rubble of an airport in Mexico City (www.technologyreview.com)
- We are hurtling toward a glitchy, spammy, scammy, AI-powered internet (www.technologyreview.com)
- New data poisoning tool lets artists fight back against generative AI (www.technologyreview.com)
- Sony’s racing AI destroyed its human competitors by being nice (and fast) (www.technologyreview.com)
- How ChatGPT was built from the people who made it (www.technologyreview.com)
- Why Meta’s latest large language model survived only three days online (www.technologyreview.com)
- Hackers are stealing data today so quantum computers can crack it in a decade (www.technologyreview.com)
- The great commercial takeover of low Earth orbit (www.technologyreview.com)
- The iPad was meant to revolutionize accessibility (www.technologyreview.com)
- What it will take to unleash the potential of geothermal power? (2021) (www.technologyreview.com)
- AI voice actors sound more human than ever–and are ready to hire (www.technologyreview.com)
- OpenAI’s hunger for data is coming back to bite it (www.technologyreview.com)
- Carbon removal hype is becoming a dangerous distraction (www.technologyreview.com)
- Exclusive satellite images show Saudi Arabia's sci-fi megacity is well underway (www.technologyreview.com)
- DeepMind cofounder: Generative AI is just a phase. What’s next is interactive AI (www.technologyreview.com)
- The machine that saved Moore's Law (www.technologyreview.com)
- The protocol designed to heal the ozone layer may also have fended off warming (www.technologyreview.com)
- Think that your plastic is being recycled? Think again (www.technologyreview.com)
- Next slide, please: A brief history of the corporate presentation (www.technologyreview.com)
- Large language models can do jaw-dropping things. But nobody knows why. (www.technologyreview.com)
- If you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich? Turns out it’s just chance (www.technologyreview.com)
- Why the ransomware crisis suddenly feels so relentless (www.technologyreview.com)
- What Luddites can teach us about resisting an automated future (www.technologyreview.com)
- The messy quest to replace drugs with electricity (www.technologyreview.com)
- Facebook is bombarding cancer patients with ads for unproven treatments (www.technologyreview.com)
- The Simplex Solution: Why it works so well (www.technologyreview.com)