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In short, there’s a trade-off between the cost of capital and transparency.
Flock’s architecture turns local cameras into a cross-jurisdictional surveillance network accessible to agencies that never purchased the cameras.
These laws give states ways to respond to deception, but alone they can’t guarantee voters that what they’re watching is real.
Time after time, any benefits resulting from these projects were consistently overshadowed by the massive costs to the public.
An American AI Force would hand China’s leadership every reason to create its own.
Our research found less public support for policy provisions governing more complex issues related to data centers.
At stake was the Clarity Act, which would have provided light-touch regulation over cryptocurrency assets.
Yes, but not too much.
The process used to decide where employees should work matters just as much as the decision itself.
As a user, try to recognize what kind of intellectual work the AI agent did for a response you receive.
Devices in homes now generate evidence continuously and often invisibly, while the governing law remains a patchwork.
Being switched off isn’t the same as dying.
Making dynamic spectrum sharing work requires radios that are more flexible than the fixed-frequency devices of the past.
There is a long history of binary thinking about addictive goods.
Even as tariffs favor domestic producers, automation is limiting hiring gains—testing whether the president's blue-collar coalition holds through...
Digital infrastructure can be designed, built, and managed for human well-being just as other critical infrastructure is.
New AI tools used in dermatology have a crucial shortcoming.
Public interest technology can fill the gaps between abstract policy and real world solutions.
Scammers worm their way into a victim’s heart to gain access to their money through false pretenses.
Stress resilience is affected by several cyclical processes, from individual and cellular-level mechanisms to the seasons.
The study doesn’t focus just on job loss; it also examines job gains and promotions.
The difficult question is how far each form of accountability can go without compromising the independence the Fed needs to make monetary policy.
7 states have passed extended producer responsibility while over a dozen additional states are considering EPR policies.
The algorithms supplying your feeds may be designed to prioritize content that clashes with your values.
If elite athletes use supplements, does that mean everyone who exercises should use use them?
The real test is whether the ocean can become AI’s next computing frontier without becoming its next environmental problem.
The story of functional neurological disorder is beginning to turn a corner.
One of the biggest hidden costs is that it makes employees fear for their jobs.
A labor economist explains the surge behind the 3 types of disposable workers.
This is the technology behind the human-like voices in computers, smartphones, and apps.
Researchers at Brazil's Federal University of Santa Maria confirmed a 240-million-year-old species, after rediscovering a missing fossil fragment.
Starfall could deliver critical medical products, deploy emergency disaster relief, or supply urgent defense support within a few hours.
For more than 50 years, citizen suits have been an effective part of cleaning up the environment in the U.S.
Creating a government fund to own AI stock and benefit all Americans would require many hard choices.
An outbreak caused by the cyclospora parasite has infected over 11,500 people across the U.S.
In addition to having repercussions in the U.S., the court’s ruling could add weight to lawsuits against companies in Belgium, Italy, and Switzerland.
Extreme event attribution is helping researchers answer questions about wildfires, heat waves, and hurricanes.
A psychologist says scientific research have cited consistent evidence to show spending time in nature leads to health improvements.
Extreme heat has increased in frequency, intensity and duration, according to University researchers.
What entrepreneurs should understand is that sustainability applied early can give a company a big competitive advantage.
The disabling of Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 marked the first time the government used export controls to prevent foreign access to an AI service.
The problem with social impacts is they can be transitory and soon disappear without deliberate efforts and strategies to sustain them.
Tomato prices have been in the headlines lately, but costs are soaring for fruits and vegetables across the board.
There is a real risk of cultural bias if AI assumes the whole world ought to pursue the same values as the West.
There is no clear evidence that AI or other kinds of computer-based tutors are superior to human tutors.
Three things make financial advice especially treacherous for AI.
Our research shows that gig workers and consumers alike can create a win-win outcome by shifting their approaches.
Setting a price for electricity is straightforward in principle but complicated in execution.
The real test is what happens after the World Cup ends and visitors go home.
From the very beginning, the capital city was built to be seen.