As a category, mental health apps have worse privacy protections for users than most other types of apps, according to a new analysis from researchers at Mozilla. Prayer apps also had poor privacy standards, the team found. “The vast majority of mental health and prayer apps are exceptionally creepy,” Jen Read more…
Less than two years after Google dismissed two researchers who criticized the biases built into artificial intelligence systems, the company has fired a researcher who questioned a paper it published on the abilities of a specialized type of artificial intelligence used in making computer chips. The researcher, Satrajit Chatterjee, led Read more…
There’s a new metaverse project from the creators of the “Bored Apes Yacht Club” NFTs. Last night they held a “virtual land” sale, reports Bloomberg, raising nearly a third of a billion dollars. At about the same time, Mashable noticed something else happening: If you were trying to complete a Read more…
It only took 25 years of development, 17 years of construction, eight launch delays, and five months of alignments, but finally, the James Webb Space Telescope is almost ready for prime time. New photos released by the European Space Agency — and an accompanying video from NASA — show images Read more…
“The Biden administration has a plan to rob Vladimir Putin of some of his best innovators,” reports Bloomberg, “by waiving some visa requirements for highly educated Russians who want to come to the U.S., according to people familiar with the strategy.” One proposal, which the White House included in its Read more…
