The Detroit Police Department arrested three people after bad facial recognition matches, a national record. But it’s adopting new policies that even the A.C.L.U. endorses.
Robert Williams sued the city of Detroit after being wrongly identified by facial recognition technology and arrested for a crime he didn’t commit. His suit has led the police to change their practices.
The disruption affected mostly visitors with AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon service, cutting them off data networks across the continent for 24 hours or more.
A network data outage in Europe, which one U.S. carrier attributed to a third-party vendor, appeared to begin on Wednesday afternoon and lasted into Thursday.
A covert campaign to target a writer critical of the country’s Communist Party has extended to sexually suggestive threats against his 16-year-old daughter.
In addition to daytime and prime-time broadcasts on NBC and a series of cable networks, Peacock will play a prominent role in the company’s Olympic coverage, and will stream every Olympic event.
The case, one of several this term on how the First Amendment applies to technology platforms, was dismissed on the ground that the plaintiffs lacked standing to sue.
The case arose from a barrage of communications from Biden administration officials urging platforms to take down posts on topics like the coronavirus vaccine and claims of election fraud.
Rattled by tech’s latest trend, businesses have turned to advisers at Boston Consulting Group, McKinsey and KPMG for guidance on adopting generative artificial intelligence.
Can artificial intelligence devise a bucket-list vacation that checks all the boxes: culture, nature, hotels and transportation? Our reporter put three virtual assistants to the test.
Rattled by tech’s latest trend, businesses have turned to advisers at Boston Consulting Group, McKinsey and KPMG for guidance on adopting generative artificial intelligence.
Tech companies have been making subtle and not-so-subtle changes to their rules for better access to data for building A.I. We took a look at some of them.
Microsoft’s French headquarters outside Paris. The Microsoft case stems from the pandemic, when collaboration tools like Zoom, Slack and Teams became essential for remote workforces.
Margrethe Vestager, who oversees competition policy at the European Commission, said Apple’s App Store policies prevent consumers from being aware of better offers.
The new memo highlights Netflix’s philosophy of “People Over Process” first: “We hire unusually responsible people who thrive on this openness and freedom.”
SoftBank and Naver helped bridge geopolitical relations with a joint venture to own the operator of the messaging app Line, but now the partnership is fraying.
Diplomats and international relations experts fear that a rift over the ownership of a Naver-SoftBank venture could again put stress on ties between Japan and South Korea.
People have grown more attached to their pets — and more willing to spend money on them — turning animal medicine into a high-tech industry worth billions.
Heather Massey of Carlton, Ga., with her dog, Lunabear. She is still paying off a bill for scans and care six years after her previous dog, Ladybird, was diagnosed with brain cancer.
Apple, Microsoft and Google need more access to our data as they promote new phones and personal computers that are powered by artificial intelligence. Should we trust them?
Kristin Bride, a member of ParentsSOS, next to an apple tree she planted after her son Carson’s suicide in 2020. The apple’s variety is Sweet Sixteen, Carson’s age when he died.
Ordering mistakes frustrated customers during nearly three years of tests. But competitors like White Castle and Wendy’s say their A.I. ordering systems have been highly accurate.
TikTok creators gathered for a news conference with members of Congress in March. TikTok has said that a ban of the app would violate the First Amendment.
Last year, Ilya Sutskever helped create what was called a Superalignment team inside OpenAI that aimed to ensure that A.I. technologies would not do harm.
A year after the first deaths of divers who ventured into the ocean’s sunless depths, an industry wrestles with new challenges for piloted submersibles and robotic explorers.
A 2003 expedition by a piloted submersible to the wreckage of the Titanic on the sea floor, as documented in the James Cameron film “Ghosts of the Abyss.” A pair of robots are scheduled to revisit the site next month.
A line for a unionization vote at Amazon’s JFK8 warehouse on Staten Island in 2022. The Teamsters are ramping up efforts to organize Amazon workers nationwide.
In high-tech labs, workers are generating data to train A.I. algorithms to design better medicine, faster. But the transformation is just getting underway.
Chips in a container at Terray Therapeutics in Monrovia, Calif. Each of the custom-made chips has millions of minuscule wells for measuring drug screening reactions quickly and accurately.
Allison Giddens, a co-president at Win-Tech, an aerospace manufacturing company in Kennesaw, Ga., keeps a note on her computer monitor to remind her to make use of ChatGPT more often.
She made significant contributions at IBM, but she lost her job because of her conviction that she inhabited the wrong body. She later fought for transgender rights.
The facial recognition start-up doesn’t have the funds to settle a class-action lawsuit, so lawyers are proposing equity for those whose faces were scraped from the internet.
The facial recognition start-up doesn’t have the funds to settle a class-action lawsuit, so lawyers are proposing equity for those whose faces were scraped from the internet.
Linda Yaccarino told X employees that 65 percent of advertisers had returned to the platform since January, while admitting that the business continues to face advertising headwinds.
Margaret Atwood and John Banville are among the authors who have sold their voices and commentary to an app that aims to bring canonical texts to life with the latest tech.
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