Facial Recognition Led to Wrongful Arrests. So Detroit Is Making Changes.
The Detroit Police Department arrested three people after bad facial recognition matches, a national record. But it’s adopting new policies that even the A.C.L.U. endorses.
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The Detroit Police Department arrested three people after bad facial recognition matches, a national record. But it’s adopting new policies that even the A.C.L.U. endorses.
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Even as the technology advances, stubborn stereotypes about women are re-encoded again and again.
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A covert campaign to target a writer critical of the country’s Communist Party has extended to sexually suggestive threats against his 16-year-old daughter.
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A look at defense technology and why Silicon Valley may be changing its tune about military work.
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What the Arrival of A.I. Phones and Computers Means for Our Data
Apple, Microsoft and Google need more access to our data as they promote new phones and personal computers that are powered by artificial intelligence. Should we trust them?
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Welcome to the Era of the A.I. Smartphone
Apple and Google are getting up close and personal with user data to craft memos, summarize documents and generate images.
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Finding Your Roots With Help From Your Phone
Everyday tools and free apps on your mobile device can help you collect, translate and digitize new material for your family-tree files.
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The New ChatGPT Offers a Lesson in A.I. Hype
OpenAI released GPT-4o, its latest chatbot technology, in a partly finished state. It has much to prove.
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San Francisco’s Hot Tourist Attraction: Driverless Cars
Cable cars are still trundling up the city’s hills, but robotaxis from Waymo are shaping up as the city’s latest must-do for visitors.
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Researchers at the University of Tokyo published findings on a method of attaching artificial skin to robot faces to protect machinery and mimic human expressiveness.
By Emily Schmall
A little something for everyone: lawsuits, fighter jets and Casey in a bucket hat.
By Kevin Roose, Casey Newton, Whitney Jones, Rachel Cohn, Larissa Anderson, Corey Schreppel, Dan Powell, Elisheba Ittoop, Marion Lozano, Sophia Lanman and Rowan Niemisto
The deal, which includes a $175 million settlement with the state, keeps the drivers classified as independent contractors, not employees.
By Eli Tan
The disruption affected mostly visitors with AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon service, cutting them off data networks across the continent for 24 hours or more.
By Derek M. Norman
NBC will offer a customized, daily highlight reel with A.I.-generated narration that sounds like the longtime broadcaster.
By John Koblin
The case, one of several this term on how the First Amendment applies to technology platforms, was dismissed on the ground that the plaintiffs lacked standing to sue.
By Adam Liptak
Can artificial intelligence devise a bucket-list vacation that checks all the boxes: culture, nature, hotels and transportation? Our reporter put three virtual assistants to the test.
By Ceylan Yeğinsu
Rattled by tech’s latest trend, businesses have turned to advisers at Boston Consulting Group, McKinsey and KPMG for guidance on adopting generative artificial intelligence.
By Tripp Mickle
Tech companies have been making subtle and not-so-subtle changes to their rules for better access to data for building A.I. We took a look at some of them.
By Eli Tan
After a year of safety problems, layoffs and mass executive departures, G.M. is trying to find stability for its futuristic driverless car business.
By Eli Tan
VW and Rivian, a maker of electric trucks that has struggled to increase sales and break even, will work together on software and other technologies.
By Jack Ewing
The tech giant has been accused of stifling competition by packaging its video conferencing app with other tools like Word and Excel.
By Adam Satariano
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A new study showed people real restaurant reviews and ones produced by A.I. They couldn’t tell the difference.
By Pete Wells
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Test your skills in this quiz.
By Stuart A. Thompson
The company’s latest internal memo about its corporate culture is more about how it expects employees to behave than what it wants to become.
By Nicole Sperling
The company’s App Store policies are illegal under the European Union’s Digital Markets Act, according to regulators in Brussels.
By Adam Satariano and Tripp Mickle
SoftBank and Naver helped bridge geopolitical relations with a joint venture to own the operator of the messaging app Line, but now the partnership is fraying.
By River Akira Davis
People have grown more attached to their pets — and more willing to spend money on them — turning animal medicine into a high-tech industry worth billions.
By Katie Thomas
A group is using the Mothers Against Drunk Driving playbook, sharing personal tragedies, to lobby for the Kids Online Safety Act.
By Cecilia Kang
Who will survive? Die? Thrive? And how? We talked to nearly a dozen top media executives and asked them to predict what lies ahead.
By James B. Stewart and Benjamin Mullin
The C.E.O. and his team drove Meta’s efforts to capture young users and misled the public about the risks, lawsuits by state attorneys general say.
By Natasha Singer
The attacks on a software provider, CDK Global, affect systems that store customer records and automate paperwork and data for sales and service.
By Neal E. Boudette
Ordering mistakes frustrated customers during nearly three years of tests. But competitors like White Castle and Wendy’s say their A.I. ordering systems have been highly accurate.
By Hank Sanders
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Will a social media warning really help children’s mental health?
By Kevin Roose, Casey Newton, Davis Land, Rachel Cohn, Whitney Jones, Jen Poyant, Alyssa Moxley, Dan Powell, Elisheba Ittoop, Marion Lozano and Rowan Niemisto
The company said the disclosures support its argument that a law signed by President Biden in May is unconstitutional.
By Sapna Maheshwari
Ilya Sutskever’s new start-up, Safe Superintelligence, aims to build A.I. technologies that are smarter than a human but not dangerous.
By Cade Metz
The chip maker’s stock price has jumped over the last year thanks to its stranglehold on the market for the chips needed to build A.I. systems.
By Tripp Mickle and Joe Rennison
A year after the first deaths of divers who ventured into the ocean’s sunless depths, an industry wrestles with new challenges for piloted submersibles and robotic explorers.
By William J. Broad
An affiliation agreement between the Amazon Labor Union and the 1.3 million-member Teamsters signals an escalation in challenging the online retailer.
By Noam Scheiber
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