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Noise-canceling headphones could let you pick and choose the sounds you want to hear

The system, which is still in prototype, works by connecting off-the-shelf noise-canceling headphones to a smartphone app. The microphones embedded in these headphones, which are used to cancel out noise, are repurposed... Read more »

Bridging the expectation-reality gap in machine learning

There is no quick-fix to closing this expectation-reality gap, but the first step is to foster honest dialogue between teams. Then, business leaders can begin to democratize ML across the organization. Democratization... Read more »

The Download: Hong Kong’s crypto obsession, and digitizing India’s documents

The museum building houses the largest reference library for Gandhian philosophy in the state of Karnataka, and over the next year, these workers will undertake the giant task of digitizing these books... Read more »

Why Hong Kong is still bullish on crypto

The day after his conviction, I was at Hong Kong FinTech Week 2023, a new annual conference hosted by the local government. Unlike people in the US, where the SBF trial is... Read more »

The Download: combating Parkinson’s with implants, and counting carbon’s cost

The news: A man with Parkinson’s disease has regained the ability to walk after physicians implanted a small device into his spinal cord that sends signals to his legs. How they did... Read more »

A man with Parkinson’s regained the ability to walk thanks to a spinal implant

Marc is the first and only person to have received the new spinal neuroprosthesis, a small device containing electrodes placed under the skin on top of his spinal cord. It works by... Read more »

The Download: military personnel data for sale, and AI watermarking 

For as little as $0.12 per record, data brokers in the US are selling sensitive private data about both active-duty military members and veterans, including their names, addresses, geolocation, net worth, and... Read more »

It’s shockingly easy to buy sensitive data about US military personnel

The year-long study, which was funded in part by the US Military Academy at West Point, highlights the extreme privacy and national security risks created by data brokers. These companies are part... Read more »

The inside scoop on watermarking and content authentication

C2PA focuses primarily on content authentication through a protocol it calls Content Credentials, though the group says its technology can be coupled with watermarking. It is “an open-source protocol that relies on... Read more »

The Download: NASA’s tiny spacecraft, and the RSV vaccine shortage

Since the 1970s, we’ve sent a lot of big things to Mars. But when NASA successfully sent twin Mars Cube One spacecraft, the size of cereal boxes, to the red planet in... Read more »