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Get in-depth coverage of current and future trends in technology, and how they are shaping business, entertainment, communications, science, politics, and society.

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Uber's Now a Food Delivery Company—and It's Still Losing Money Aug 17, 2020

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The pandemic has slashed demand for rides and boosted orders for UberEats. Neither segment is profitable.

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As Restaurants Move to the Cloud, Something Is Missing Aug 14, 2020

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Thousands of eateries are closing amid the pandemic. Delivery specialists are popping up, but some worry about a loss of culture and community.

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Cheap, Easy Deepfakes Are Getting Closer to the Real Thing Aug 13, 2020

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Using open source software and less than $100, a researcher was able to create plausible images and audio of actor Tom Hanks.

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What’s This? A Bipartisan Plan for AI and National Security Aug 12, 2020

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Republican Will Hurd and Democrat Robin Kelly want more Pentagon spending, a Cold War-style “hotline,” and a curb on chip exports to China.

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Facebook Has More to Learn From the Ad Boycott Aug 11, 2020

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Rashad Robinson, an organizer behind the Stop Hate for Profit boycott, says civil rights groups can’t be left to police the company by themselves.

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Bill Gates on Covid: Most US Tests Are ‘Completely Garbage’ Aug 10, 2020

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The techie-turned-philanthropist on vaccines, Trump, and why social media is “a poisoned chalice.”

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Stop Saying Facebook Is ‘Too Big to Moderate’ Aug 07, 2020

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The social media company could surely enforce its own rules on false and harmful posts—it just needs to cut into its massive profit margins.

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The Facebook and Amazon Documents That Captivated the Hearing Aug 06, 2020

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Here's a look at how Mark Zuckerberg plotted the Instagram acquisition. Plus: Inside Amazon's plan to take down Diapers.com.

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AI Is All the Rage. So Why Aren’t More Businesses Using It? Aug 05, 2020

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A big study by the US Census Bureau finds that only about 9 percent of firms employ tools like machine learning or voice recognition—for now.

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Facebook’s ‘Red Team’ Hacks Its Own AI Programs Aug 04, 2020

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Attackers increasingly try to confuse and bypass machine-learning systems. So the companies that deploy them are getting creative.

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