In case you missed it, on January 22nd The Guardian reported, "Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos had his mobile phone 'hacked' in 2018 after receiving a WhatsApp message that had apparently been sent from the personal account of the crown prince of Saudi Arabia."According to the now-contested report by FTI Consulting cited by The Guardian, that…
Politicians may be looking for a roundabout way to thwart end-to-end encryption. Senator Lindsey Graham is drafting a bill, the Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies (EARN IT) Act, that would modify the Communications Decency Act's Section 230 to make companies liable in state criminal cases and civil lawsuits over child abuse and…
Researchers have been pursuing facial recognition technologies since the 1960s but its only been in the last few years that these systems have become so alarmingly capable. Neural networks able to match faces across thousands of features with better than 98 percent accuracy as well as an explosion of available training data sets have fueled…
What if the future of cars contained fewer of them? That was the proposition once put forward by companies like Uber and Lyft before research suggested that the ride-hailers are putting more miles on the road than pulling miles off them. And yet: Lots of folk still think advancements like ride-hail and autonomous vehicles might…
Welp, the UK finally did it. Brexit actually happened. Just when you thought it might never come to pass, it did. But that wasn't the only thing that went down last week. Not by a long shot. Coronavirus also became an official global emergency over the last seven days, and the US economy started showing…
It sounds almost like science fiction: a tiny world that formed around another star, visiting our cosmic neighborhood for us to study. And yet that’s exactly what has happened, twice now as of the last few months. It will only happen more often this decade.Original story reprinted with permission from Quanta Magazine, an editorially independent…
This month, Microsoft finally released its new and improved Microsoft Edge browser, which the company rebuilt from scratch. If you’re in the market for break from Chrome, Edge has a few new features that are worth checking out.Edge might look familiar if you’ve used Microsoft’s browser before, but it’s undergone major changes under the hood.…
This year’s crop of Super Bowl ads includes plenty of the usual suspects: expensive cars, cheap beers, big tech. But among the companies coughing up a reported $5.6 million for 30 seconds of Big Game glory is one name most people have never heard of, selling a product that many don’t know exists: Dashlane, an…
If you don't have cable, it can be tough figuring out how to stream the Super Bowl. Airing today, this year's game has the San Francisco 49ers facing off against the Kansas City Chiefs at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami. It's time to break out the chip dips, don your favorite jersey, and maybe win…
Rajiv Shah is president of the Rockefeller Foundation, one of the nation’s oldest philanthropies, founded by oil baron John D. Rockefeller in 1913. President of the foundation since 2017, Shah previously was administrator of the US Agency for International Development, and held several posts at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He met recently with…
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