MIT Technology Review
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Karen Hao
– Jun 6, 1:00 AM
The artificial-intelligence industry is often compared to the oil industry: once mined and refined, data, like oil, can be a highly lucrative commodity. Now it seems the metaphor may extend even further. Like its fossil-fuel counterpart, the…
YouTube's CEO has apologized to the LGBTQ community, but ultimately stood by the decision to keep a creator accused of hate speech on the platform. At CodeCon on Monday, Susan Wojcicki was asked by Axios reporter Ina Fried if she felt the company…
10 de junio de 2019 • 10:52 El presidente de Colombia, Iván Duque, no se escuda en la neutralidad para hablar de la política argentina. De visita oficial en Buenos Aires, apoya de manera decidida a Mauricio Macri de cara al…
MIT Technology Review
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Emerging Technology from the arXiv
– May 30, 11:34 AM
Many people worry that quantum computers will be able to crack certain codes used to send secure messages. The codes in question encrypt data using “trapdoor” mathematical functions that work easily in one direction but not in the…
If we ever have giant inflatable telescopes in space, you can thank Chris Walker's mom. Years ago, Walker was making chocolate pudding when he had to interrupt his culinary undertaking to field a phone call from his mother. He took the pudding off…
