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Uber’s facial recognition is locking Indian drivers out of their accounts 

Uber checks that a driver’s face matches what the company has on file through a program called “Real-Time ID Check.” It was rolled out in the US in 2016, in India in... Read more »

The industrial metaverse: A game-changer for operational technology

The industrial metaverse: A game-changer for operational technology | MIT Technology Review You need to enable JavaScript to view this site. Read more »

“李老师”口述:如何成为推特上中国抗议信息的聚集地

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The Download: a long covid app, and California’s wind plans

1 The Twitter Files weren’t the bombshell Elon Musk billed them as His carelessness triggered the harassment of some of Twitter’s content moderators, too. (WP $)+ The files didn’t violate the First Amendment,... Read more »

California’s coming offshore wind boom faces big engineering hurdles

Research groups estimate that the costs could fall from around $200 per megawatt-hour to between $58 and $120 by 2030. That would leave floating offshore wind more expensive than solar and onshore... Read more »

A new app aims to help the millions of people living with long covid

Visible is just one of a range of projects designed to help people with long covid. Researchers from University College London have recently created an app called Lungy, which is designed to... Read more »

GPT-4 is coming, but OpenAI is still fixing GPT-3

In a live demo that OpenAI gave me yesterday, ChatGPT didn’t shine. I asked it to tell me about diffusion models—the tech behind the current boom in generative AI—and it responded with... Read more »

The Download: circumventing China’s firewall, and using AI to invent new drugs

As protests against rigid covid control measures in China engulfed social media in the past week, one Twitter account has emerged as the central source of information: @???????? (“Teacher Li Is Not... Read more »

The Blue Technology Barometer 2022/23

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Your microbiome ages as you do—and that’s a problem

These ecosystems appear to change as we age—and these changes can potentially put us at increased risk of age-related diseases. So how can we best look after them as we get old?... Read more »