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The worst technology of 2022

The impact of these technologies could be measured in the number of people affected. More than a billion people in China are now being exposed to the virus for the first time;... Read more »

Why it’s so hard to tell porn spam from Chinese state bots

But this spam content may not have had anything to do with the Chinese government after all, according to a report published on Monday by the Stanford Internet Observatory. “While the spam... Read more »

Irwin Lebow’s rosemary challah

In 1992, Irwin Lebow ’48, PhD ’51, submitted this recipe to Moment Magazine’s Ultimate Challah Contest. The judges named it the top recipe in the non-traditional challah category. Lebow called it a... Read more »

Humans at the center of effective digital defense

Consequently, content moderation—the monitoring of UGC—is essential for online experiences. In his book Custodians of the Internet, sociologist Tarleton Gillespie writes that effective content moderation is necessary for digital platforms to function,... Read more »

Is there a limit to human life?

People have always been fascinated with the question of human longevity. In this 1954 piece for Technology Review, James A. Tobey, author of more than a dozen books on public health, including Your... Read more »

What’s next for crypto in 2023

Tornado warning DeFi advocates are also facing off against regulators on a separate front, where the main issue at hand is privacy. Nowhere are the stakes higher for the future of the... Read more »

The Download: home robot surveillance, and problematic AI text

These models are trained on text scraped from the internet, including all the toxic, silly, false, malicious things humans have written online, which they then regurgitate as fact.  When tech companies scrape... Read more »

How AI-generated text is poisoning the internet

This has been a wild year for AI. If you’ve spent much time online, you’ve probably bumped into images generated by AI systems like DALL-E 2 or Stable Diffusion, or jokes, essays,... Read more »

AI-based data analytics enable business insight

For Sharma, that meant starting from scratch, assembling a team of data scientists and building an AI pipeline. Sharma and his team then created a “smart audience platform” that puts ads touting... Read more »

A Roomba recorded a woman on the toilet. How did screenshots end up on Facebook?

Brookman explains that the legal barriers companies must clear to collect data directly from consumers are fairly low. The FTC, or state attorneys general, may step in if there are either “unfair”... Read more »