Douglas Lenat, Who Tried to Make A.I. More Human, Dies at 72
Douglas Lenat, an artificial intelligence researcher who spent nearly 40 years trying to build common sense into computers, recreating human…
How Montana’s Attorney General Made Banning TikTok a Top Priority
On a recent summer day, Austin Knudsen, Montana’s attorney general, drove his red Buick from Helena, the state’s capital, to…
Driverless Taxis Blocked Ambulance and Patient Later Died, San Francisco Fire Dept. Says
Two Cruise driverless taxis blocked an ambulance carrying a critically injured patient who later died at a hospital, a San…
Qué son los deepfakes de voz, la nueva estafa bancaria
Esta primavera, Clive Kabatznik, un inversor de Florida, llamó a su representante local de Bank of America para hablar de…
Saudi Dissident’s Brother Is Sentenced to Death for Social Media Posts on Royals
A court in Saudi Arabia has sentenced to death the brother of an exiled dissident, convicting him of disloyalty to…
Qué son los deepfakes de voz, la n ueva estafa bancaria
Esta primavera, Clive Kabatznik, un inversor de Florida, llamó a su representante local de Bank of America para hablar de…
In Monitoring Child Sex Abuse, Apple Is Caught Between Safety and Privacy
In 2021, Apple was embroiled in controversy over a plan to scan iPhones for child sexual abuse materials. Privacy experts…
VanMoof, Trendy E-Bike Brand, Bought Out of Bankruptcy by Scooter Maker
VanMoof, the Dutch e-bike maker that gained a zealous following but declared bankruptcy last month, has been acquired by Lavoie,…
Falsehoods Follow Close Behind This Summer’s Natural Disasters
As natural disasters and extreme environmental conditions became more commonplace around the world this summer, scientists pointed repeatedly to a…
A California Land Mystery Is Solved. Now the Political Fight Begins.
Jan Sramek was 15 years old the first time he tried to get a government to do something he wanted.…