At a moment when education technology firms are stockpiling sensitive information on millions of school children, safeguards for student data have broken down.
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How Some Parents Changed Their Politics in the Pandemic
They were once Democrats and Republicans. But fears for their children in the pandemic transformed their thinking, turning them into single-issue voters for November’s midterms.
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Charter loses home Internet customers, blames end of COVID subsidy program
Enlarge / Charter CEO Tom Rutledge speaks during The New York Times DealBook conference in New York on Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016. (credit: Getty Images | Bloomberg) The two largest home Internet providers in the US both lost subscribers in the second quarter of 2022. On Friday, Charter Communications reported a loss of 42,000 residential...
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No code, no problem—we try to beat an AI at its own game with new tools
Enlarge / Is our machine learning yet? Over the past year, machine learning and artificial intelligence technology have made significant strides. Specialized algorithms, including OpenAI’s DALL-E, have demonstrated the ability to generate images based on text prompts with increasing canniness. Natural language processing (NLP) systems have grown closer to approximating human writing and text. And...
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(BPRW) Sharifah Hardie Launches Campaign to Raise $1.5B for Local Black Businesses
(Black PR Wire) Sharifah Hardie today announced the launch of Support My Black Business, a crowdfunding platform designed solely to assist local Black businesses generate funding, as well as her intent to raise $1.5B across the newly launched platfor
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Does Twitch Fame Have to Come With a Stalker?
Stars on Twitch, the video game streaming platform, invite viewers into their homes virtually. What happens when one shows up in person?
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China Has Leapfrogged the U.S. in Key Technologies. Can a New Law Help?
While Congress argued over whether and how to support American chip makers and research in other technologies, China was surging ahead.
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How Tor is fighting—and beating—Russian censorship
Enlarge (credit: Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/Getty) For years, the anonymity service Tor has been the best way to stay private online and dodge web censorship. Much to the ire of governments and law enforcement agencies, Tor encrypts your web traffic and sends it through a chain of computers, making it very hard for people to track...
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F.T.C. Chair Lina Khan Upends Antitrust Standards by Suing Meta
Lina Khan may set off a shift in how Washington regulates competition by filing cases in tech areas before they mature. She faces an uphill climb.
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Big Tech Is Proving Resilient as the Economy Cools
Tech companies are slowing their frenetic hiring, but a combination of dominance and diversity is turning out to be — yet again — an overwhelming asset.