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Khari Johnson Business Sep 26, 2023 7:00 AM This New Autonomous Drone for Cops Can Track You in the Dark Startup Skydio says its powerful new drone for public safety can reduce the need for high-speed chases. Civil liberties groups warn that few rules govern police use of drones. Skydio's …

Lauren Goode Business Sep 25, 2023 6:47 PM Getty Images Plunges Into the Generative AI Pool Stock-photo giant Getty Images has partnered with Nvidia to build an image generator. Just like with other tools of its ilk, questions remain about who should get credit for the pictures it dreams up. …

Khari Johnson Business Sep 25, 2023 5:07 PM FBI Agents Are Using Face Recognition Without Proper Training The FBI makes heavy use of face recognition services like that of controversial startup Clearview AI, but 95 percent of the agents using them haven’t completed training on the technology. Photograph: Lourdes Balduque/Getty …

Ontario's Great Lakes region is hailed by many as the greatest shipwreck diving area in the world, but due to invasive species and climate change, the province's rich underwater history might only have a decade or two before it crumbles to dust. The decay of Great Lakes maritime history has …

Morgan Meaker Business Sep 25, 2023 12:59 PM Booking.com Shows the True Scope of the EU’s Big Tech Crackdown European competition authorities have blocked an acquisition by Dutch travel company Booking as scrutiny on Big Tech companies heats up. Photograph: DENIS CHARLET/Getty Images Save this story Save Save this story …

Lauren GoodeWill Knight Business Sep 25, 2023 8:00 AM ChatGPT Can Now Talk to You—and Look Into Your Life ChatGPT inches closer to feature parity with the seductive AI assistant from Her, thanks to an upgrade that adds voice and image recognition to the chatbot. Illustration: GeorgePeters/Getty Images Save this …

Thor Benson Security Sep 25, 2023 7:00 AM Your Boss’s Spyware Could Train AI to Replace You Corporations are using software to monitor employees on a large scale. Some experts fear the data these tools collect could be used to automate people out of their jobs. Photograph: Vladimir Godnik/Getty Images …

Astronomers say the evidence suggests the detected CO2 on Europa rose to the surface relatively recently from the moon's subsurface ocean. NASA says this confirms that Europa's subsurface ocean contains the chemicals needed for life The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered carbon on the surface of Europa, an ice-covered …

The Town of Banff is calling for homeowners to replace their fruit trees with something less appealing to wildlife after The Boss, a locally famous grizzly, had to be hazed from backyards, bluff charging residents in the process. The Boss, a huge, famous grizzly, feasted on crab apples in backyards …

David Nield Gear Sep 24, 2023 7:00 AM How ChatGPT Can Help You Do More With PDFs The AI chatbot can search, summarize, and create PDF documents with a few handy plug-ins. Illustration: Mongkol Akarasirithada/Getty Images Save this story Save Save this story Save The generative AI bot ChatGPT has …