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In August 2021, TikTok received a complaint from a UK user, who indicated that a man had “exposed himself and played with himself” in a… Read More »Inside How TikTok Shares User Data

Enlarge / A tall COVID patient sits with her daughter in her wheelchair as she receives a saline solution at her Maryland home on Friday,… Read More »Study narrows down 200+ symptoms of COVID to core list of 12

European legislators are finalizing an AI law. The Biden administration and leaders in Congress have their plans to rein in artificial intelligence. Sam Altman, the… Read More »New York City is moving to regulate how AI is used in recruiting

Enlarge / HP sometimes blocks third-party ink and toner that are more than 90 percent full, the Imaging Technology Council claims. HP printers have historically… Read More »HP printers must have EPEAT eco-labels revoked, trade group demands

Reid Hoffman, billionaire, entrepreneur and venture capital investor, is concerned about artificial intelligence, but not because of the doomsday scenarios making headlines. Instead, he worries… Read More »Reid Hoffman extols the virtues of AI

Farrar, Straus and Giroux In November 1988, a Cornell University graduate student, Robert Morris, Jr., inadvertently caused a national crisis by unleashing a self-replicating computer… Read More »Is cybersecurity an unsolvable problem?

Welcome back to On Tech: AI, a pop-up newsletter that teaches you about artificial intelligence, how it works and how to use it. A few… Read More »Prompts to try asking ChatGPT

Enlarge / The aftermath of the Fort McMurray fire. At noon on May 3, the fire chief in the oil town of Fort McMurray was… Read More »The lessons of a wildfire that destroyed a town and burned for 15 months

Gert-Jan Oskam was living in China in 2011 when he had a motorcycle accident that left him paralyzed from the hips down. Now scientists have… Read More »Brain implants enable a paralyzed man to walk with his thoughts

Enlarge / Part of the system of reticulated tunnels (exit complex) of a hill of Macrotermes Michaelseni termites from Namibia. D. Andreen The mounds that… Read More »No air conditioning? No problem, if buildings replicate networked tunnels of termite mounds

Maybe it’s a happy couple, toes in the sand, on a Greek beach vacation. Or that family that always seems to walk together, no one… Read More »How to protect your mental health when using social media

Smartphone malware sold to governments around the world can covertly record voice calls and nearby audio, collect data from apps like Signal and WhatsApp, and… Read More »Inner Workings Revealed for “Predator”, the Android Malware Abused for 5 0 Days

Listen and follow ‘Hard Fork’ Apple | Spotify | Stitcher | Amazon | Google US Surgeon General Dr Vivek Murthy says social media poses a… Read More »The Surgeon General’s social media warning and the existential risks of AI

The X1 Carbon’s fingerprint reader. Casey Johnson Among other things, Memorial Day marks the unofficial beginning of summer. Hopefully you’ll be heading to the mountains,… Read More »Dealmaster: Lenovo’s ThinkPad doorbusters top Memorial Day deals

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz on Thursday vetoed a bill that would have guaranteed a minimum wage and other protections for Uber and Lyft drivers. “Ride-share… Read More »Minnesota Governor vetoes gig worker pay