New York’s Landmark AI Bias Law Prompts Uncertainty
Businesses and their service providers are grappling with how to comply with New York City’s mandate for audits of artificial intelligence systems used in…
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Visa, Mastercard, Amex Urged to Track Gun Sales to Fight Crime
Visa Inc.,
Mastercard Inc.
and American Express Co. should begin tracking gun sales…
Can Tech Boost Reading? Literacy Tools Come to Classrooms
In one vision of classrooms of the near future, young children will put on headsets and read sentences aloud as they navigate computer programs powered by…
In Defense of Online Anonymity
Anonymity on the internet has gotten a bad rap lately, and for good reason. The shield of anonymity has contributed to a toxic online ecosystem that is too…
Chattanooga Finds Fresh Identity as a Tech, VC Hub
Chattanooga, Tenn., one of the first places in the nation to install a citywide fiber-optic gigabit-speed internet cable, boomed during the pandemic thanks…
Microsoft Is Censoring Searches in U.S. for Politically Sensitive Chinese Names, Researchers Say
A
Microsoft Corp.
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search engine has made it harder in North America to look up people who are…
Regulators Target Companies That Connect Robocalls From Overseas
WASHINGTON—U.S. phone companies that connect robocalls from overseas would have to block calls when ordered to do so under new rules adopted Thursday by the…
Behind Fake-Account Issue That Elon Musk Cited in Pausing Twitter Deal
Elon Musk’s tweet saying his planned
Twitter Inc.
acquisition was on hold put the spotlight on questions…
Social-Media Regulations Expand Globally as Elon Musk Plans Twitter Takeover
Countries are taking more steps to compel social-media platforms to shield users from material they deem harmful through standards that could affect…
Judge Dismisses Trump Suit Against Twitter Over Censorship Claims
A federal judge has tossed a lawsuit filed last year by former President
Donald Trump
against…