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U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) (L) and Senator Pat Leahy (D-VT) show a fake social media post for a non-existent "Miners for Trump" rally as representatives of Twitter, Facebook and Google testify before a Senate Judiciary Crime and Terrorism Subcommittee hearing on how Russia allegedly used their services to try to sway the 2016 U.S. elections, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S. October 31, 2017. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

How Russian trolls are adapting Cold War propaganda techniques

Venuri Siriwardane

Friday, May 15, 2020

Illustration picture shows a smartphone with Covid-19 app in Rotterdam, the Netherlands on April 19, 2020. The World Health Organisation says tracking infected people, and tracing and alerting their contacts, are vital if the disease is to be kept under control after lockdown. The government says it has received 750 applications from companies to co-operate on a 'corona app' and will draw up a shortlist over the weekend with the aim of producing a draft proposal on April 21. The app is expected to use Bluetooth technology on mobile phones to see who has been in contact with an infected person. Privacy campaigners are concerned that if the app is rolled out too quickly it will not be secure or sufficiently anonymous and have questioned its effectiveness. The governments target is for 60% of people to use the app, but in Singapore, where a voluntary app was introduced, take-up is around 20%. Photo by Robin Utrecht/ABACAPRESS.COMNo Use Netherlands. No Use Germany.

Contact-tracing apps are political

Thursday, May 14, 2020

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Interactive: What jobs is AI likely to disrupt?

Mark Muro, Jacob Whiton, Robert Maxim, and Michael Gaynor

Wednesday, May 13, 2020

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Interactive: How AI will affect American cities

Mark Muro, Jacob Whiton, Robert Maxim, and Michael Gaynor

Tuesday, May 12, 2020

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Introducing TechStream: Where technology and policy intersect

Chris Meserole and Fred Dews

Monday, May 11, 2020

Examples of Facebook pages are seen, as executives appear before the House Intelligence Committee to answer questions related to Russian use of social media to influence U.S. elections, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., November 1, 2017. REUTERS/Aaron P. Bernstein

Video: Trends in online disinformation campaigns

Friday, May 8, 2020

A view of Zhangbei data center of Alibaba is pictured in Zhangbei county, Zhangjiakou city, north China's Hebei province, 12 September 2016.China's e-commerce giant Alibaba is expanding its cloud facilities vigorously. After announcing a cloud data center in Silicon Valley in the US this March, it has launched a large cloud data center in North China. The Zhangbei cloud data center broke ground in the Miaotan Industrial Park in Zhangbei County, Hebei Province, in April 2015. It is expected to host 80 percent of Alibaba's cloud and big data in North China and to serve as the group's North China settlement center. Currently, cloud only accounts for one percent of Alibaba's total income, but the group has bet its future on cloud. The Zhangbei data center, which covers about 165 acres, will cost 18 billion yuan (US$2.9 billion), according to Haifeng Qu, research fellow in the technical support department of Alibaba.No Use China. No Use France.

Introducing Techstream: Where technology and policy intersect

Chris Meserole and Fred Dews

Friday, May 8, 2020

Newspapers stand worker wearing a proctective mask is seen after Italy tightened the lockdown measures to combat the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Venice, Italy, March 22, 2020. REUTERS/Manuel Silvestri

COVID-19 misinformation is a crisis of content mediation

Thursday, May 7, 2020

Nurse Health Practitioner Rachelle Quimpo (C) introduces patient Shreya Sasaki to Dr. Heidi Meyer, MD Family Medicine, who appears on a video screen remotely at a newly opened Kaiser Permanente health clinic inside a Target retail department store in San Diego, California November 17, 2014. Four clinics are scheduled to open in Southern California to provide pediatric and adolescent care, well-woman care, family planning, and management of chronic conditions like diabetes and high blood pressure for Kaiser members and non-members. REUTERS/Mike Blake (UNITED STATES - Tags: HEALTH BUSINESS SOCIETY)

Removing regulatory barriers to telehealth before and after COVID-19

Nicol Turner Lee, Jack Karsten, and Jordan Roberts

Wednesday, May 6, 2020

A customer uses the new face-recognition software on the new iPhone X inside the Apple Store in Regents Street in London, Britain, November 3, 2017. REUTERS/Peter Nicholls

Why the AI revolution hasn’t swept the military

Wednesday, May 6, 2020