With the development of artificial intelligence advancing rapidly in recent years, the prospects for applications in the social sciences seem more and more within reach. A recent paper on generative agents by Joon Sung Park […]
Writing for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Emma Armstrong discusses a new report from the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights on the Civil Rights Implications of Federal Use of Facial Recognition Technology. Noting the use of […]
Writing in PC Magazine, Kate Irwin reports that California has updated its Consumer Privacy Protection Act to include neural data as a type of protected personal data. With the growth of applications that collect brain […]
Writing in The Verge, Emma Roth reports that Google will face a reopened lawsuit that alleges that it collects user data through Chrome without their consent. The suit concerns Chrome sync which allows users to […]
On earth we have come to take time keeping for granted. We know what time it is where we are and we can easily find the time in any location on the earth. Atomic clocks […]
We often take the settings for performance for granted, but a recent article by Liam Tharme in the New York Times highlights the importance of the settings in which individuals perform. Tharme tells the story […]
With the development and growing popularity of large language models, various concerns have been raised. These concerns have included the quality of the information generated, the fairness of how individuals and groups are represented in […]
Despite many efforts to examine YouTube, there are few datasets available that provide a comprehensive look at the enormous video collection and sharing site. In a recent paper published in the Journal of Quantitative Description, […]
An article in The Verge reports on action taken by the Danish privacy regulator that will require cities in Denmark to provide assurances that student data transferred to Google via Chromebooks and Google Workspace complies […]
The use of tools has long been used to distinguish humans so perhaps we should not be puzzled by the growing set of human augmentation opportunities. Nonetheless, there is a growing set of tools for […]
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