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How Green Is Your Software?
Data centers will consume 8% of the world’s energy by the end of the decade.
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One Data Scientist’s Quest to Quash Misinformation
Sara-Jayne Terp uses the tools of cybersecurity to track false claims like they’re malware. Her goal: Stop dangerous lies from…
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Amnesty calls for human rights controls on EU digital surveillance…
In a new report, Amnesty International says it’s found evidence of EU companies selling digital surveillance technologies to…
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2 US senators just demanded Amazon stop spying on its workers via…
The "magnitude of this surveillance" is "extremely disturbing," Senators Ron Wyden and Sherrod Brown wrote in a letter to Amazon…
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Companies Can Track Your Phone’s Movements to Target Ads
Brands are seeking new ways to customize messages. A startup that gathers data on when you pick up your phone, or when you go out…
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Mozilla wants your help to fix terrible YouTube recommendations
Mozilla is introducing a new browser extension, RegretsReporter, that aims to crowdsource information research about users’…
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How can we fight surveillance capitalism?
Over the past decade, we’ve seen the rise of a new kind of corporate power, one built on an almost unprecedented level of digital…
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Conspiracy theories are causing people to fear the harmless and…
This is the September 17, 2020 edition of Factually, a newsletter written by the International Fact-Checking Network and the…
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The most influential Hispanics in technology
As part of our ongoing coverage of , Digital Trends compiles a list every year of the most influential Hispanics in the…
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Fake Data Could Help Solve Machine Learning’s Bias Problem—if We Let…
Without human intervention, data sets generated by A.I. for A.I. to learn from only amplify bias.
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Hate Social Media? You’ll Love This Documentary
The Social Dilemma argues that humanity’s greatest existential threat is not climate change, but Facebook.
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