White House bans federal agencies from using spyware that poses national security and human rights risks in the U.S.
The Washington Post From ACM News | March 28, 2023
More sophisticated artificial intelligence (AI) tools are being used to replicate a person's voice.
The Washington Post From ACM TechNews | March 14, 2023
Companies like Paradromics and Synchron are competing with Elon Musk's Neuralink to design a brain implant that can communicate with computers.
The Washington Post From ACM TechNews | March 6, 2023
Big Tech is heralding chatbots as the next frontier. Why did Microsoft's start accosting its users?
The Washington Post From ACM News | February 17, 2023
Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government announced that next year it will close a research facility that studied online misinformation.
The Washington Post From ACM TechNews | February 9, 2023
Energy developers want to build a ton of wind and solar — they just can't get it connected to the grid.
The Washington Post From ACM News | December 20, 2022
Warehouse robots increasingly are able to grasp and sort objects of various shapes and sizes with the dexterity of human hands.
The Washington Post From ACM TechNews | December 16, 2022
The lawsuit marks FTC chair Lina Khan's most significant effort to date to address tech industry consolidation, and it could upend Microsoft's gaming ambitions....The Washington Post From ACM News | December 8, 2022
16 major domestic airports are testing facial recognition tech to verify IDs — and it could go nationwide in 2023.
The Washington Post From ACM News | December 5, 2022
Researchers worry these systems produce images that can cause a range of harms, such as reinforcing racial and gender stereotypes or plagiarizing artists without...The Washington Post From ACM News | October 3, 2022
Meet Flippy, Sippy and Chippy, the newest technology stepping in to address a protracted labor crunch in food service.
The Washington Post From ACM News | September 20, 2022
Searchers, beware: That Google, Bing, or DuckDuckGo ad might be 'malvertising'—phishing campaigns and malware hiding behind legit-looking links.
The Washington Post From ACM News | September 16, 2022
A mobile robot balance assistant developed by scientists at Singapore's Nanyang Technological University can anticipate and catch seniors before they fall.
The Washington Post From ACM TechNews | September 14, 2022
Under the pilot program, campaigns would be able to circumvent algorithmic sorting by tech companies that at times sends their emails to spam.
The Washington Post From ACM News | August 12, 2022
Photo- and video-sharing platform Instagram has started using age verification tools to prevent account holders under 18 years old from changing their ages to over...The Washington Post From ACM TechNews | June 24, 2022