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The Download: Clearview AI’s hefty fine, and countries’ monkeypox preparation

Controversial facial recognition company Clearview AI has been fined more than $10 million by the UK’s data protection watchdog for collecting the faces of UK citizens from the web and social media.... Read more »

The Download: DeepMind’s AI shortcomings, and China’s social media translation problem

Earlier this month, DeepMind presented a new “generalist” AI model called Gato. The model can play the video game Atari, caption images, chat, and stack blocks with a real robot arm, the Alphabet-owned... Read more »

The hype around DeepMind’s new AI model misses what’s actually cool about it

“Nature is trying to tell us something here, which is, this doesn’t really work, but the field is so believing its own press clippings, that it just can’t see that,” he adds. ... Read more »

Equipment management and sustainability

One area that Castrip has been working on for the last two years is increasing the use of machine intelligence to increase process efficiency in the yield. “This is quite affected by... Read more »

The Download: The monkeypox outbreak latest, and the online trail left by mass shooters

I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 Mass shooters are hiding in plain sight onlineBut it’s wickedly hard to do anything before they commit violence.... Read more »

5G private networks enable business everywhere

The manufacturing industry is exploring 5G technology at an accelerated pace, largely to enable AI-driven use cases such as closed-loop manufacturing, adaptive manufacturing, predictive analytics for maintenance, and extended reality (XR)-based worker... Read more »

The Download: China’s disinfection obsession, and US anti-disinformation board woes

In a one-minute video that went viral in China in early May, three government workers in hazmat suits spray disinfectant all over someone’s home: inside the fridge, under the television, over the... Read more »

Why China is still obsessed with disinfecting everything

As China grapples with its biggest-ever spike of covid cases, the government’s decision to keep pushing the narrative that surfaces pose a significant infection risk means time and money are being poured... Read more »

The Download: A baby formula crisis, and the hunt to improve solar panels

Unfortunately, it was far from straightforward, reflecting just how volatile the NFT market is these days, and reinforcing his belief that money is weird now. Read the full story. The must-reads I’ve... Read more »

I tried to buy an Olive Garden NFT. All I got was heartburn.

I wanted to plunk down my $20, but OpenSea didn’t accept credit cards. I would need to buy some of the cryptocurrency Ether to complete the transaction. Okay! I’m game. Ether in... Read more »