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FTC Says Data Brokers Unlawfully Tracked Protesters and US Military Personnel
The United States Federal Trade Commission is taking action against two American data brokers accused of unlawfully trafficking…
Robot balloons are snapping centimetre-resolution photos of the US
The payload of a Near Space Labs balloon parachuting back to the ground Near Space Labs Autonomous balloons…
Record-breaking diamond storage can save data for millions of years
Diamonds can store data stably for long periods of time University of Science and Technology of China The…
ICE Can Already Sidestep Sanctuary City Laws Through Data-Sharing Fusion Centers
On the campaign trail and in recent days, Donald Trump has detailed extensive plans for immigration crackdowns and…
San Francisco Will Pay $212 Million for Its Train System to Ditch Floppy Disks
The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) board has agreed to spend $212 million to get its Muni…
The ‘Rolex on the Wall’ That Kissinger, Reagan and Sinatra Loved, but You’ve Never Heard Of
For decades, it was the only way to visualize global time and daylight before the internet. Despite the…
6G phone networks could be 9000 times faster than 5G
Future mobile networks could transmit data much faster if they use a wider range of frequencies Frank Herrmann/Getty…
This Startup Wants YouTube Creators to Get Paid for AI Training Data
So far, when AI companies have trained on YouTube’s invaluable stash of videos, captions, and other content, they’ve…
The mathematical theory that made the internet possible
The internet could not exist without information theory Mehmet BAYSAN / Alamy The following is an extract from…
A New Group Is Trying to Make AI Data Licensing Ethical
The first wave of major generative AI tools largely were trained on “publicly available” data—basically, anything and everything…