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Broadband funding for Native communities could finally connect some of America’s most isolated places

And all that work at the “last mile”—installing or upgrading the antennas and cables that link up homes and businesses—is only part of the story. There’s also the “middle mile”—the infrastructure that... Read more »

China Report: What’s up with all of Biden’s executive orders on China?

The TL;DR here: The US and China used to trust each other in industrial cooperation and trade, despite ideological differences. But now, I think both sides will agree, that kind of trust... Read more »

We’ve only just begun to examine the racial disparities of long covid

Nevertheless, Horwitz, who is also a RECOVER principal investigator, believes the study will give a clearer view of the impact of long covid on Black people. Gregorio Millett, vice president and director... Read more »

How retail is using AI to prevent fraud

Jennifer: He says fraud management in places like this has changed quite a bit since he started this job. For example, they used to set up filters based on some simple questions.... Read more »

The Algorithm: AI-generated art raises tricky questions about ethics, copyright, and security

Thanks to his distinctive style, Rutkowski is now one of the most commonly used prompts in the new open-source AI art generator Stable Diffusion, which was launched late last month—far more popular than... Read more »

AI is more than a buzzword: It’s now being deployed on ships and golf carts

Thank you for joining us on “The cloud hub: From cloud chaos to clarity.” Platform as a service (PaaS) solutions allow for higher-level programming with dramatically reduced complexity; the application’s overall development... Read more »

How retail can pivot to autonomous stores

Thank you for joining us on “The cloud hub: From cloud chaos to clarity.” Retailers are considering autonomous store technology as an alternative to manned stores. This paper explores the challenges, the... Read more »

CIO vision 2025: Bridging the gap between BI and AI

Addressing shortcomings in companies’ data management and infrastructure, as well as internal structural and process rigidities and talent deficits, loom large among those challenges. Some 72% of the technology executives we surveyed... Read more »

The Download: AI-generated art and YouTube’s algorithm

1 The race to decarbonize Europe’s heavy industriesScaling up promising technologies is among the biggest obstacles—but they’re not insurmountable. (Economist $)+ Nature documentaries tend to skim over human suffering. (Wired $)+ Carbon removal... Read more »

Hated that video? YouTube’s algorithm might push you another just like it.

Mozilla researchers analyzed seven months of YouTube activity from over 20,000 participants to evaluate four ways that YouTube says people can “tune their recommendations”—hitting Dislike, Not interested, Remove from history, or Don’t... Read more »