News & Articles By Arsenio Toledo
07/15/2021
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By Arsenio Toledo
Humanoid Japanese robot keeps getting fired for repeatedly malfunctioning and being incompetent
Pepper, a humanoid robot developed by Japanese technology investor SoftBank, keeps getting fired from its jobs. SoftBank unveiled Pepper, a child-sized robot, in 2014 and began selling it the next year. “Today might become a day that people 100, 200 or 300 years later would remember as a historic day,” said SoftBank chief executive officer […]
07/04/2021
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By Arsenio Toledo
Massive DATA BREACH exposes personal data of 700 million users of Microsoft-owned LinkedIn
For the second time this year, Microsoft-owned social networking and employment service LinkedIn has experienced a data breach. According to Ben Lovejoy, tech journalist for 9to5Mac, a hacker exposed the personal data of around 700 million users. This represents around 92 percent of the platform’s more than 756 million total users. The data breach was discovered on […]
06/22/2021
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By Arsenio Toledo
Amazon employees extremely mistreated, overworked during the height of the coronavirus pandemic
During the height of the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in the United States last year, Amazon made the equivalent of three years’ worth of profits in just one. But this growth came at the expense of its hundreds of thousands of workers, who were routinely mistreated and overworked. These revelations come from an examination of […]
06/09/2021
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By Arsenio Toledo
TikTok quietly changed its privacy policy, giving itself permission to harvest biometric data of US users
On Wednesday, June 2, social media app TikTok quietly changed its privacy policy in the United States to permit itself to collect biometric data from its users. TikTok, which has over 100 million users in the U.S. alone, introduced a newly added section in its privacy policy titled “Image and Audio Information.” Under the heading […]
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 […]
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