5 Years After San Francisco Banned Face Recognition, Voters Ask for More Surveillance

Posted on March 7, 2024 by Techme101

On Tuesday the country’s techiest city backed a ballot proposition that tapped into concerns about crime, giving the police more freedom to use drones and other surveillance technology.

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Big American Tech Profits From Chinese Ad Spending Spree

Posted on March 7, 2024 by Techme101

Temu, Shein, and streaming and gaming apps looking to break into the U.S. market are spending huge sums to get their wares in front of American consumers.

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Chinese National Accused of Stealing AI Secrets From Google

Posted on March 7, 2024 by Techme101

Linwei Ding, a Chinese national, was arrested in California and accused of uploading hundreds of files to the cloud.

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Police feared ‘brummie’ accent bias in new call bot

Posted on March 7, 2024 by Techme101

West Midlands Police trialled the non-emergency call-answering AI voice assistant for two months.

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‘My AI twin may get me more modelling work’

Posted on March 7, 2024 by Techme101

As the fashion industry grapples with the rise of AI, one model has created an AI twin of herself.

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Ex-Google engineer charged with stealing AI secrets

Posted on March 7, 2024 by Techme101

Linwei Ding is also accused of secretly working for Chinese competitors.

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Deadline for EU DMA Compliance Arrives for ‘Gatekeeper’ Orgs

Posted on March 7, 2024 by Techme101

Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, ByteDance, Meta and Microsoft were named influential gatekeepers under the Digital Markets Act.

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Europe’s Digital Markets Act Is Breaking Open the Empires of Big Tech

Posted on March 6, 2024 by Techme101

Tech giants have to comply with a new EU law that is set to change the internet. It aims to force open the biggest platforms to encourage competition and give users more choice in their digital lives.

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Facebook is building a giant AI model to power all video recommendations, exec says

Posted on March 6, 2024 by Techme101

Tom Alison, the head of Facebook, said on Wednesday that the company is working on an artificial intelligence model to “power our entire video ecosystem.”

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Saildrone’s first aluminum Surveyor autonomous vessel splashes down for Navy testing

Posted on March 6, 2024 by Techme101

Ocean intelligence company Saildrone has just put the first of a new generation of Surveyor autonomous vessels in the water: an aluminum version that the Navy is keen to take advantage of. But don’t worry – they aren’t putting guns on them. Founder and CEO Richard Jenkins told TechCrunch that the demand for vessels like […]
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