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Chinese authorities nab fugitive in a crowd of 60k thanks to facial recognition AI
A 31 year-old fugitive from justice in China was located by a camera employing facial recognition AI in a crowd of more than ...
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Luis Figo becomes latest celebrity to jump on the ICO bandwagon
Luís Figo — former Portuguese ace footballer — has joined the list of celebrities promoting ICOs. Figo has agreed to ...
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Tanzania imposes strict social media regulations to stop 'moral decadence'
Tanzania has finally signed into law their eyebrow-raising new regulation that will govern social media and blogging. The regulation known as the Electronic and Postal Communications (Online Content) Regulations 2017, was initially published by the Tanzania Communications Regulatory ...
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Proposed GOP bill seeks to educate Trump on AI before it's too late
A House bill indicates the GOP wants to figure out what's going on in the field of artificial intelligence and whether it's ...
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No, India hasn't banned cryptocurrencies
Reserve Bank of India issued a press release on Thursday that had a directive for withdrawing support to virtual currencies ...
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Malaysian Prime Minister promises harsh prison sentences for 'fake news'
Taking pages from the dictator's playbook, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak managed to get a "fake news" law passed that ...
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Trump's wall won't stop China's AI
While The White House wages a trade war nobody asked for, it's worth wondering whether protectionism has any technological ...
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Exploring a controversial net neutrality opinion: Not all data should be treated equally
Washington recently became the nation’s first state to pass net neutrality legislation, a law in which violations by all internet service providers (ISPs) are enforceable, under Washington’s Consumer Protection Act. Net neutrality, or the principle that all internet data must ...
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Study shows social media echo chambers might actually be a good thing
A team of researchers set out to determine if the social media echo chamber on Twitter was keeping Democrats and Republicans ...
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US to demand visa applicants turn over social media history
The Trump administration is planning full implementation of its extreme vetting to all non-immigrant visa applicants, with ...
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European MPs are pushing for an even more extreme 'link tax'
Should the European Commission’s proposal for an extra copyright for news sites become law, restricting how we can share ...
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The case for an artificially intelligent POTUS
The duties of the President of the United States of America could, arguably, be performed by a computer. Here's how and why ...
