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U.S. sanctions Chinese firms over human rights abuses against Uyghur

The U.S. Department of Commerce sanctioned on Monday 14 Chinese tech companies over links to human rights abuses against Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang, northwest China. Adding these firms to the Entity List restricts American companies from collaborating with any of the listed businesses without a special license. Among the listed companies is DeepGlint, a Chinese […]

Want a job? Employers say: Talk to the computer

A day after her interview for a part-time job at Target last year, Dana Anthony got an email informing her she didn’t make the cut. Anthony didn’t know why — a situation common to most job seekers at one point or another. But she also had no sense at all of how the interview had […]

Sports cards have gone virtual, and in a big way

Maybe the Luka Doncic rookie basketball card that recently sold at auction for a record $4.6 million was a bit rich for your blood. Perhaps you’d be interested in a more affordable alternative — say, a virtual card of the Dallas Mavericks forward currently listed for a mere $150,000? Not long ago, there’s no way […]

AI Against Covid-19 – can your cough reveal your condition?

A major problem of the Covid-19 pandemic lies with asymptomatic infections – people that carry and transmit the virus without symptoms. A recently developed AI against Covid-19 has a sharp algorithmic ability to detect both symptomatic and asymptomatic cases by analyzing the sound of a person’s cough. Pioneered by a group of researchers from MIT, […]

5G’s double-edged sword impact on climate change

As the clock ticks closer and closer toward the rollout of 5G worldwide, a new wave of entrepreneurs are frantically thinking of the next multi-billion dollar idea that will drive this rapidly changing era in telecom.   In parallel, many experts from all professions are studying and prepping themselves to integrate 5G within their core business […]

Tech companies step up fight against bad coronavirus info

By AMANDA SEITZ and BARBARA ORTUTAY The Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Potentially dangerous coronavirus misinformation has spread from continent to continent like the pandemic itself, forcing the world’s largest tech companies to take unprecedented action to protect public health. Facebook, Google and others have begun using algorithms, new rules and factual warnings to knock […]

Japan’s RCS +Message, surpassing SMS as next-generation messenger

Japan’s RCS (Real Communication Solution), more commonly referred to in Japan as +Message, is quickly gaining traction as the successor to SMS, especially in, but not limited to, business-to-person messaging. Unlike SMS, RCS allows people and businesses to send a much wider variety of messages, including photos, videos, stickers, and group chats. It can also […]

Computer-graphics pioneers win tech's Turing prize

By TALI ARBEL AP Technology Writer The technology that animated movies like “Toy Story” and enabled a variety of special effects is the focus of this year’s Turing Award, the technology industry’s version of the Nobel Prize. Patrick Hanrahan and Edwin Catmull won the prize for their contributions to 3-D computer graphics used in movies […]

AI to ensure credible content control for tech companies

If you have uploaded a video to YouTube lately and can’t find it, there’s a high chance it was removed. On this occasion, you don’t have a human to blame. Since the rise of COVID-19 and the mass of misinformation being circulated, YouTube is putting artificial intelligence in charge of evaluating more content. Google, YouTube […]