When The Internet Archive Forgets
What happens when an archive becomes less reliable, and arguably has legitimate reasons to bow to pressure and remove controversial archived material?

November 28, 2018 at 11:30AM
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British Cops Are Building an AI That Flags People for Crimes That Haven’t Happened Yet
Dubbed the National Data Analytics Solution (NDAS), the system pulls data from local and national police databases.

November 28, 2018 at 06:46AM
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AI Needs Branding
Average consumers typically have no idea they’re interacting with–or being manipulated by–an algorithm. That’s a branding problem.

November 28, 2018 at 02:39AM
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A Message From Your Laptop, Which Hasn’t Been Backed Up For Three Hundred And Eleven Days
Chances are you know this, because I have reminded you every afternoon, politely and without fail, for the last three hundred and ten days.

November 27, 2018 at 11:30PM
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SCIENTIST WHO CRISPR’D BABIES BUCKED HIS OWN ETHICS POLICY
We said many years and years of boring bench science remain before anyone could even think about putting it near a woman’s uterus. Well, we might have been wrong. Permission to push the panic button granted.

November 27, 2018 at 07:20PM
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A Decade After The iPhone, There’s Still No Good Smartphone For Kids
Half the children in the US get phones before they’re 12. We need better options.

November 27, 2018 at 12:40PM
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Google Workers Ask Bosses To Cancel The Company’s Secret, Censored Search Engine For China
Additionally, employees asked that the company promise no backlash against whistleblowers making details of secret internal projects known if they were in the public’s interest.

November 27, 2018 at 11:39AM
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Elon 
Elon Musk tweeted that “nobody ever changed the world on 40 hours a week.” Here’s why that’s a bad opinion.

November 27, 2018 at 11:11AM
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Why It’s Time We All Became Climate Change Optimists
There are plenty of reasons to feel pessimistic about humanity’s future. Presented with our greatest ever challenge, scientists and technologists are showing the way forward.

November 26, 2018 at 05:18PM
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Online Porn Filters Will Never Work
Beyond the massive technical challenge, filters are a lazy alternative to effective sex education.

November 26, 2018 at 04:10PM
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