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Assistant Press Secretary Kevin Munoz says the White House has avoided criticism of the issue. The Verge That error was “only a small percentage” of the overall experience. Press Secretary Jane Sackie added, “In our view, every website comes with a risk. We cannot guarantee that there will not be one or two bugs.” But…
The intense social pressure to shut down solar geoengineering research does not mean that all such research will end – it means that researchers who care about openness and transparency can stop their activities, and those who continue to reduce public concerns May be responding. They will be backed by funders who do not care…
Turning to the cloud is all the rage. According to the IDC survey spotlight, Experience migrating databases to the cloud63% of enterprises are actively migrating their databases to the cloud, and another 29% plan to do so in the next three years. This article discusses some of the risks that customers may inadvertently encounter when…
But the right amount of data, clean and properly channeled, can quench a business’s thirst for insight, power its growth and lead it to success, says Matt Baker, senior vice president of corporate strategy at Dell Technologies. Like water, data is neither good nor bad. The question is whether it is useful for the purpose…
Inadvertent results? Knock-on effects for the rest of the world may not be limited to deliberate retaliation by Russian operatives. Unlike the old-fashioned war, cyber warfare is not confined to borders and can go out of control more easily. Ukraine has been at the end of a decade of aggressive Russian cyber operations and has…
Data2vec is part of a larger trend in AI towards models that can learn to understand the world in more ways than one. “It’s a clever idea,” says Anne Kembhavi, of Allen Institute for AI in Seattle, who works on vision and language. “It’s a promising breakthrough when it comes to general learning systems.” An…
To support MIT Technology Review journalism, please consider becoming a subscriber., China initiative Chen was one of the most high-profile scientists charged under the China Initiative, a Department of Justice program launched under the Trump administration to counter economic espionage and national security threats from the People’s Republic of China. Despite its stated purpose, the…
But most of Oasis’ plans, at best, remain idealistic. One example is the proposal to use machine learning to detect harassment and unpleasant speech. As my colleague Karen Hao reported last year, AI models offer a great opportunity to either spread hate speech or go beyond it. Nevertheless, Wang defends the promotion of Oasis’ AI…
Artificial intelligence helps build physical infrastructure like modular housing, skyscrapers, and factory floors. “…many problems that we wrestle with in all forms of engineering and design are very, very complex problems…those problems are beginning to reach the limits of human capacity,” says Mike Haley, the vice president of research at Autodesk. But there’s hope with…
“The priority is on which cable to fix first,” says Medori. “Countries pay a small premium to be fixed first.” Once one of these ships arrives at the scene, which can take days on its own, it leaves a hook to strip the cable running along the ocean floor. The hooked cable, which is as…