News & Articles By Arsenio Toledo
06/08/2021
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By Arsenio Toledo
McDonald’s to test run AI-powered drive-thru windows that don’t need employees to take orders
In another move designed to shrink its workforce and save on labor expenses, McDonald’s is testing out its artificial intelligence-driven drive-thrus at 10 locations in Chicago. In these locations, workers will no longer be taking down the drive-thru orders of customers. A computer will do it instead, according to McDonald’s CEO Chris Kempczinski. On Wednesday, June […]
06/05/2021
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By Arsenio Toledo
Amazon is about to start sharing Alexa owners’ bandwidth with their neighbors
The tens of millions of Americans that own Amazon smart devices like Alexa, Echo and Ring only have a few days left to opt out of a company experiment that will severely compromise their personal privacy and security. On June 8, Amazon will launch the Amazon Sidewalk, a new shared mesh network that will help its […]
05/16/2021
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By Arsenio Toledo
Anthropologists warn that people have become so attached to smartphones that the devices are “becoming our homes”
A group of anthropologists from the U.K.’s University College London (UCL) came to the conclusion that humans have become so dependent on smartphones as part of everyday life that these mobile devices are “becoming our homes.” This is the conclusion the UCL anthropologists reached as part of a study that spent more than a year documenting smartphone use in nine countries around the […]
05/03/2021
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By Arsenio Toledo
Ethical questions raised after Elon Musk’s Neuralink company implants chip in monkey’s brain
Scientists and ethicists have questioned the ethical implications of human and cyborg hybridization experiments after a recent demonstration involving a monkey with a brain chip controlling a video game with its mind. On April 8, Elon Musk’s neurotechnology start-up Neuralink announced that it had successfully created a cyborg monkey that can play Pong with its mind […]
04/27/2021
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By Arsenio Toledo
Big tech supporting and writing privacy legislation in multiple states to preempt passage of stronger privacy laws
Big tech corporations are pushing states to pass watered-down privacy laws that they helped write with the goal of preempting stronger privacy protections. In March, Virginia swiftly passed the Consumer Data Protection Act. According to an investigation by Protocol, the Virginia law was “industry-approved.” The law was presented to a Democratic state senator by an Amazon lobbyist. Most of […]
04/24/2021
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By Arsenio Toledo
EU proposing legislation to restrict facial recognition tech and “high-risk” artificial intelligence applications
Officials within the European Union (EU) on Wednesday, April 21, proposed legislation to limit the use of facial recognition technology and other “high-risk” applications of artificial intelligence (AI). The bill was proposed by the European Commission, the main executive body of the EU. The EU is attempting to lead the world in creating and enforcing regulations […]
03/14/2021
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By Arsenio Toledo
Kroger opens FULLY AUTOMATED warehouse in Ohio, plans to open more in the future
As the demand for product deliveries increased due to the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and as lockdowns prevented many from going to work, companies are resorting to using fully automated warehouses. This is what happened with supermarket chain Kroger, which just opened its first fully automated distribution center in Ohio. Kroger, whose headquarter is based […]
02/22/2021
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By Arsenio Toledo
Researchers are developing AI that can detect emotional states using radio waves
Scientists are developing an advanced artificial intelligence system that uses an advanced neural network and radio signals to detect a person’s emotions from a short distance. This is coming from a study conducted by scientists from the Queen Mary University of London and was published in the journal PLOS ONE. The researchers used radio waves to pick up subtle changes in […]
02/09/2021
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By Arsenio Toledo
FCC sued for dismissing evidence that wireless technology can have serious effects on health
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) was sued by two health advocacy organizations over the agency’s “capricious, arbitrary and not evidence-based” refusal to acknowledge that wireless technology devices and infrastructure, such as cell towers and smartphones, can have serious health effects. On Monday, Jan. 25, attorneys for the Children’s Health Defense (CHD) and the Environmental Health Trust (EHT) […]
02/03/2021
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By Arsenio Toledo
Google threatens to leave Australia if it passes proposed digital media code
Google is threatening to end its search engine services in Australia if the country passes its proposed “digital media code” that would require the tech giant to pay local news publishers for the articles it links to. Prime Minister Scott Morrison isn’t fazed, saying that Microsoft’s own search engine Bing will be able to fill the […]
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