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Twitter Group's Offer India a Covid-19 Lifeline May 18, 2021

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Hashtags have provided a kind of emergency hotline—but the need for mutual aid on social media is also a rebuke to the government.

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It Began As an AI-Fueled Dungeon Game. It Got Much Darker May 17, 2021

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The game touted its use of the GPT-3 text generator. Then the algorithm started to generate disturbing stories, including sex scenes involving children.

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The One Legal Question That Will Probably Decide the Epic-Apple Lawsuit May 14, 2021

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It’s all about how you define the market.

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Gummy Bears and Candy Bars Are Casualties of the Pandemic May 13, 2021

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Shopping online means fewer unplanned purchases. Manufacturers and retailers are testing tactics to bring impulse buying to the web.

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Why Almost No One Is Getting the Fastest Form of 5G May 12, 2021

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A new report shows that US mobile customers are tapping into the technology’s speediest networks less than 1 percent of the time.

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The WFH Exodus Creates an Opportunity for Small Cities May 11, 2021

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Workers from urban centers will continue to work from home, at least part-time. Officials and developers are planning the shops and services they'll want.

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Ford's Ever-Smarter Robots Are Speeding Up the Assembly Line May 10, 2021

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A transmission factory shows how artificial intelligence may creep into industrial processes in gradual and often imperceptible ways.

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AI Helps Prove Two Scribes Wrote Text of a Dead Sea Scroll May 07, 2021

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Most scholars thought the Isaiah Scroll was copied by a single author. New handwriting analysis just revealed otherwise.

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This Researcher Says AI Is Neither Artificial nor Intelligent May 06, 2021

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Kate Crawford, who holds positions at USC and Microsoft, says in a new book that even experts working on the technology misunderstand AI.Â