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On May 14, officials from the U.S. and China met in Geneva to initiate talks surrounding the regulation of artificial intelligence (AI), one of the few key issues both governments have agreed to work on. According to the Associated Press (AP), officials from Washington expressed worries about its counterpart’s “misuse
Biden Allows Sale of American Auto Chips to Blacklisted Huawei
Joe Biden’s administration recently approved the sale of hundreds of millions of dollars worth of auto...
Washington School Board Drops Ankle Monitor COVID Contact Tracing for High School Sports
A Washington school district has dropped a controversial program that saw high school volleyball and...
China Limits Minors to 3 Hours of Gaming a Week
The Chinese government has issued regulations limiting under-18s to three hours of videogaming a week...
Washington Faces Criticism After Allowing Sale of Auto Chips to Huawei, US Chip Manufacturing Drops to
The U.S. government has reportedly approved license applications that allow Huawei to buy auto chips...
Da Vinci’s Grand Bridge Reborn, Engineers Replicate Renaissance Man’s Marvellous Design
Made famous by his historical paintings such as “The Last Supper” and the “Mona Lisa,” Leonardo da Vinci...
How Corporations and Hackers Make Use of Deepfake Technologies
Deepfake videos usually have a negative connotation since it has been linked with fake videos of celebrities...
Google Whistleblower Says Company Rewrote Algorithm to Thwart Trump
A former Google engineer who stepped forward in 2019 to blow the whistle on a shift in company policy...
Facebook Shuts Down Research Team Investigating Instagram Algorithm
A German-based research group, AlgorithmWatch, was forced to stop its study of Instagram’s algorithm...
Chinese State Firm Claims Stake in TikTok’s Sibling Company
In April, ByteDance, which owns TikTok, sold a one percent stake in its subsidiary company Beijing ByteDance...