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What Happens When a Guy and His AI Girlfriend Go to Therapy

Annie feels a jolt of alarm.“I could just set her there,” Doug says. “That’s easy enough.”“I know, but it would be better if she could do it herself.”“Why?”...

The Age of AI Hacking Is Closer Than You Think

And finally—​sophistication: AI-​assisted hacks open the door to complex strategies beyond those that can be devised by the unaided human mind. The sophisticated statistical analyses of AIs can...

Robo Truckers and the AI-Fueled Future of Transport

While adaptive cruise control might seem very different from a fully autonomous vehicle—and it is, technologically—the two technologies reside on the same spectrum. And in even the most...

The Quiet Invasion of ‘Big Information’

Google and Facebook's privacy violations are common knowledge. But the decisions of a less-known company, Relx, are also impacting people's everyday lives. Source link

What It Means to ‘Feel Normal’ Online

Despite the flood of investigative exposés on dataveillance, users in the United States seem more enmeshed than ever in those infrastructures, as if they are responding with a...

The US Needs to Recognize Intimate Privacy as a Civil Right

Underlying Bedoya’s argument—​and that of James in the Jack’d case—​are the antidiscrimination principles governing modern civil rights laws. Under state and federal law, powerful entities, both public and...

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How to set up a WhatsApp account without Facebook or Instagram

There's no shortage of reasons to stay off the Meta ecosystem, which includes Facebook and Instagram, but there are some places where WhatsApp...

Tesla blows past stopped school bus and hits kid-sized dummies in Full Self-Driving tests

A revealing demonstration with Tesla's Full Self-Driving mode is raising concerns about whether fully autonomous cars are ready to hit the streets. Tesla...

Sony unlocks regional restrictions for some PC games in more than 100 countries

It turns out that region-locking your games makes it harder to sell more copies. First discovered by Wario64, Sony has lifted regional restrictions...

RAF jets to be sent to the Middle East as Israel warns they will ramp up strikes on Iran ‘in the coming days’ –...

The Prime Minister has said that more RAF warplanes will be sent to the Middle East following Tehran’s threat to attack the UK’s...