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The Ring Always Home Cam Flies Around Inside Your House
Tech product launches in the year 2020 involve a kind of perspective whiplash that makes it more difficult than usual to decide whether or not you really need the thing.There’s the consideration of whether the gadget fits into your life right now, at a time when our needs have changed considerably. There’s also the fact…
Federal Executions During Covid-19 Put Innocent Lives at Risk
Christopher Vialva grew up on death row. In 1999, at age 19, Vialva, along with a few other teenagers, carjacked and killed Stacie and Todd Bagley; he was later convicted of murder and sentenced to die. At the time, a doctor assessed his mental age to be 16. He was nearly illiterate, struggling to read…
Facebook Busts Russian Disinfo Networks as US Election Looms
Facebook announced on Thursday that it has taken down three “coordinated inauthentic behavior” networks promoting disinformation that included nearly 300 Facebook and Instagram accounts, along with dozens of Facebook Pages and Groups. While the efforts were seemingly run independently, and were focused primarily outside of the US, each has ties to Russian intelligence—and they collectively…
Everything Amazon Just Announced—Like That Crazy Home Drone
Amazon held a media event in its hometown of Seattle on Thursday morning. Just like nearly every other consumer tech announcement this year, Amazon’s extravaganza was a virtual affair, with company executives speaking over a livestream instead of to a room full of reporters. The company unleashed a flood of hardware in about an hour,…
Alexa Now Has Its Own Questions for You
When Amazon released the Echo smart speaker in 2014, people still marveled at the convenience of voice-controlled computing. Now that the novelty has worn off, they are more likely to grumble about how often Alexa gets confused.Now, Amazon has a plan to make Alexa smarter—with you as the teacher.For some commands, Alexa will soon seek…
How the Pandemic Transformed This Songbird’s Call
When the cat’s away the mice will play, or so the saying goes. But what happens when humanity’s away, locked inside to slow the Covid-19 pandemic? It turns out that birds will play—a sexier song, that is.Writing today in the journal Science, researchers report that male white-crowned sparrows around the San Francisco Bay Area exploited…
Go Ahead, Try to Sneak Bad Words Past AI Filters—for Research
Facebook’s artificial intelligence researchers have a plan to make algorithms smarter by exposing them to human cunning. They want your help to supply the trickery.Thursday, Facebook’s AI lab launched a project called Dynabench that creates a kind of gladiatorial arena in which humans try to trip up AI systems. Challenges include crafting sentences that cause…
How Twitter Survived Its Biggest Hack—and Plans to Stop the Next One
July 15 was, at first, just another day for Parag Agrawal, the chief technology officer of Twitter. Everything seemed normal on the service: T-Pain’s fans were defending him in a spat with Travis Scott; people were upset that the London Underground had removed artwork by Banksy. Agrawal set up in his home office in the…
A Trump-Biden Debate Without Climate Change Is Inexcusable
A brief sample of recent climate news: record-setting heat waves, including a 121-degree day in Los Angeles; apocalyptic wildfires up and down the West Coast, killing dozens and draping much of the continent in smoke; an August derecho that laid waste to much of the state of Iowa; five tropical cyclones forming at once in…
