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GeekSpin - 1 day 33 sec agoFood delivery robots are supposed to make life easier, but could they be collecting more personal information than people realize? Two lawsuits are raising serious privacy concerns over Coco and Serve Robotics, alleging that their delivery machines scan the faces, hands, and bodies of customers and unsuspecting pedestrians without their consent. Both companies have pushed […] Read the original article here: Lawsuits claim food delivery robots secretly scan faces...
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NPR - 1 day 2 hours agoOracle, the multinational tech giant has taken on a lot of loans to build up its AI capacity. But Oracle's investors are not happy with this piling debt load.
Goldman Sachs partners with OpenAI, Google, Meta and Anthropic to boost AI adoption among small businesses.
Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Meta, at his home in Lake Tahoe, Calif. He has another California home in Palo Alto, close to Meta's headquarters.
Meta's annual Meta Connect event at the company's Menlo Park, Calif., campus.
The penalty in New Mexico stems from a lawsuit about a data privacy scandal that Facebook faced more than eight years ago.
NPR - 1 day 13 hours agoAI-written mathematical proofs have saddled the community with a lot of extra homework.
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Air and Space - 1 day 16 hours agoAt first, plants below an elephant carcass die. Soil microbes and plants grow back soon after, but only a few select species. Herbivores later come in to munch on the nutrient-rich greens...
A military jet designed to be seen by no one is going on public display. The Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum is rolling out an F-117 Nighthawk, tail number 85-0818, nicknamed "the Overachiever," on Wednesday at its Udvar-Hazy Center near Dulles Airport in Virginia. The 41-year-old aircraft was the...
IEEE Life Fellow Manfred "Fred" J. Schindler has been elected as the 2027 IEEE president-elect . He will begin serving as president on 1 January 2028. Schindler, who was nominated by the IEEE Board of Directors , received 16,421 votes in the election. Senior Member David Alan Koehler received 13,874 votes. Schindler's Top 3 Goals as President-Elect Strengthen IEEE's connection with industry by coordinating events across geography, industry, and technology to revitalize professional...
A judge has ordered Meta to pay the state of New Mexico a civil penalty of $25 billion after a jury found the company misled users about the privacy of their data. NBC News' Allie Canal has details on the ruling.
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Air and Space - 1 day 18 hours agoThe sleuths spent two years digging into archives and building 3D models of 19th-century Paris. The location is now immortalized by a bronze plaque celebrating the historic site and the "poetic" early photograph...
Vox - 1 day 19 hours agoIt's now possible to create AI chatbots of loved ones to interact with after their death. But that raises some difficult questions, like: If you do, how might the experience shape your grief? This is one of the questions driving a global study of digital "deadbots" AI models trained on a deceased person's texts, voicemails, and other personal data. Through this work, researchers are exploring what it might mean that we can now use this emerging technology to talk to simulations of...
Shop TODAY is hosting their first-ever Holiday House event on three floors of a historic mansion in New York City on Nov. 19. The immersive experience will feature a signature brand bazaar filled with interactive activations and giveaways, a photo-op with Santa as well as special guests like Amanda Seyfried, the Broadway cast of "Chicago," and "Real Housewives of New Jersey" star Melissa Gorga!...
Popular Mechanics - 1 day 23 hours agoThe first foldable iPhone feels like it's already a generation ahead of its rivals.
Some websites went offline intentionally on Wednesday following a newly disclosed set of vulnerabilities in what NBC News describes as "a little-known but crucial programming language which powers how web servers process code." Per W3Techs , PHP is used in 69% of all websites. The two flaws were serious enough that...
Elon Musk just inched closer to rolling his biggest ventures into a single tech colossus. On a SpaceX earnings call Tuesday, Musk said Tesla and SpaceX have set up special committees of independent directors to study a possible merger, which he personally supports but says he's recused from negotiating, reports...
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