All stories by Ben
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Meet the ‘reverse ICO,’ where existing companies run a token sale
Reverse ICOs are executed by companies that want to decentralize themselves to remain competitive. This can be an established ...
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GDPR is an opportunity for AI companies to build trust
One of the domains where GDPR will leave its mark prominently is the artificial intelligence industry. Data is the bread ...
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Tech execs can't be trusted to fix the monster they created
Social media, smartphones, and other cutting-edge technology were supposed to improve the social experience and facilitate ...
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How gaming can help solve cybersecurity woes
Capture the Flag (CTF) tournaments in which participants compete to solve security problems or to attack and defend computer ...
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How to stop people using your face for porn (or other scarier things)
If a picture’s worth a thousand words, then a video’s worth a thousand pictures. For as long as videos have existed, ...
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We need to focus on AI complementing the mind, not replacing it
Every few decades, a technological development leads us to believe that artificial general intelligence (aka strong AI) ...
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How AR and VR will expose us to new cybersecurity threats
You walk down a hallway and arrive at a door, but when you reach out for the knob, your hand grabs nothing but thin air. ...
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Avoid this privacy fuck-up when sharing Google Docs
Out of the numerous companies I’ve worked with in the past years, most use Google Docs to submit and collaborate on draft ...
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Stopping racist AI is as difficult as stopping racist people
In early 2016, Microsoft launched Tay, an AI chatbot that was supposed to mimic the behavior of a curious teenage girl and ...
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Let the robots have the damn jobs — all of them!
The past year was marked with increasing concerns about the effects artificial intelligence and automation will have on ...
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There’s a major lack of quality VR/AR content — this startup wants to fix that
Cappasity’s platform will connect the creators and consumers of AR/VR experiences from across the world.
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Why you should not store your cryptos on an exchange (but use a wallet instead)
With online wallets, you'll have control of your own privacy and security while also being able to easily receive and send ...
