Technology

Humans at the center of effective digital defense

December 20, 2022
Digital information has become so ubiquitous that some scientists now refer to it as the fifth state of matter. User-generated content (UGC) is particularly prolific: in April 2022, people shared around 1.7 million pieces of content on Facebook, uploaded 500 hours’ worth of video to YouTube, and posted 347,000 tweets every minute. Much of this…

Is there a limit to human life?

December 20, 2022
People have always been fascinated with the question of human longevity. In this 1954 piece for Technology Review, James A. Tobey, author of more than a dozen books on public health, including Your Diet for Longer Life (1948), noted that despite a few frauds claiming to be older than 150, “the consensus of scientific opinion is that…

What’s next for crypto in 2023

December 20, 2022
Last month’s sudden implosion of the popular cryptocurrency exchange FTX has intensified a political war for the soul of crypto that was already raging.  In the coming year, we are likely to see that fight come to a head in US courtrooms and in Congress. The future of finance hangs in the balance. The battle…

The Download: home robot surveillance, and problematic AI text

December 20, 2022
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. A Roomba recorded a woman on the toilet. How did screenshots end up on Facebook? In the fall of 2020, gig workers in Venezuela posted a series of images to online forums where…

Creating an Army Of Digital Banking Literates

December 20, 2022
Establishing the infrastructure for the future of banking and financial services is a necessity. Nevertheless, the growth of this sector depends on improved technical capacity and digital proficiency. Although the use of technology is progressing, digital literacy is lagging

How AI-generated text is poisoning the internet

December 20, 2022
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. This has been a wild year for AI. If you’ve spent much time online, you’ve probably bumped into images generated by AI systems like DALL-E 2 or Stable Diffusion, or jokes, essays,…

Layoffs are coming for self-driving truck company TuSimple

December 19, 2022

Autonomous trucking technology company TuSimple plans to cut a chunk of its workforce, potentially as early as this week, according to The Wall Street Journal, which cited “people familiar with the matter.” While the Journal reported layoffs could affect at least half of TuSimple’s workforce, TechCrunch’s own source familiar with the matter said that number […]

Layoffs are coming for self-driving truck company TuSimple by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch