Facebook is reportedly testing a ‘virality circuit breaker’ to stop misinformation
It would give content moderators more time to review viral posts.
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NYC creates a high-level position to oversee ethics in AI
The city wants fairness and accountability in its algorithms.
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Google News dives deeper into stories with 'Beyond the Headlines'
See editorials, explainers and more, including read times.
An independent report on Facebook’s alleged liberal bias tells us nothing
The report by former Senator Jon Kyl does little more than air conservative’s grievances.
New DoS attack exploits algorithms to knock sites offline
The attack sends junk data to algorithms for processing.
'Flying saucer' drone can fly twice as long as regular models
Flybotix's drone is designed for tricky inspections and search and rescue work.
Axon won’t use facial recognition tech in its police body cameras
Its AI ethics board determined the tech is too faulty and biased.
Twitter's chronological timeline button is here to stay
It's rolling out to all iOS users today, and soon it'll be on Android and the web.
AI-generated painting sells for $432,000 at auction
Portrait of Edmond Belamy’ from art collective Obvious was only expected to sell for $7,000 to $10,000.
Twitter wants to ‘increase the health of public conversation’
Jack Dorsey said there needs to be a proactive approach to removing toxic content.
Watch tomorrow's Jack Dorsey congressional hearings right here
Foreign interference and “content moderation” on Twitter will be the talk of the day.
Twitter uses smart cropping to make image previews more interesting
The site has trained a neural network to identify the best bits of a picture.
Logan Paul forced YouTube to admit humans are better than algorithms
It took a video of a dead body for it to finally reconsider its approach.
After Las Vegas shooting, Facebook and Google get the news wrong again
Both were promoting fake stories for hours, before eventually taking them down.
The panic and pleasure of online dating as a woman in her 40s
Age ain’t nothin’ but a number, until the algorithm says it is.
Google's AI gets human help to avoid offensive search results
It aims to stop users from seeing things like neo-Nazi results for Holocaust searches.
