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Universal income vs. the robots: Meet the presidential candidate fighting automation

7 questions for Andrew Yang, the 2020 US presidential candidate pushing for basic income. Read more »

The 6 reasons why Huawei gives the US and its allies security nightmares

The biggest fear is that China could exploit the telecom giant’s gear to wreak havoc in a crisis. Read more »

Facial recognition has to be regulated to protect the public, says AI report

The think tank AINow has identified facial recognition as a key challenge for society and policymakers—but is it too late? Read more »

Meet the astronaut trainer getting billionaire space tourists ready for liftoff

The coming rise in private spaceflight is prompting growth in space companies that give citizen astronauts the know-how they need to fly. Read more »

Alibaba already has a voice assistant way better than Google’s

It navigates interruptions and other tricky features of human conversation to field millions of requests a day. Read more »

Top 5 Challenges of Monitoring Multi-cloud Environments

Today’s enterprises use many different clouds, which makes monitoring and management more difficult than ever.

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Quantum computers pose a security threat that we’re still totally unprepared for

Some US experts think it could take at least 20 years to get quantum-proof encryption widely deployed. Read more »

Your smartphone’s AI algorithms could tell if you are depressed

Smartphones that are used to track our faces and voices could also help lower the barrier to mental-health diagnosis and treatment. Read more »

AI software can dream up an entire digital world from a simple sketch

Creating a lifelike digital scene normally requires skill, creativity, and patience. Now we can just offload the work to an AI algorithm. Read more »

Inside the world of AI that forges beautiful art and terrifying deepfakes

Generative adversarial networks, or GANs, are fueling creativity—and controversy. Here’s how they work. Read more »