One day in November, a product strategist we’ll call Michelle (not her real name), logged into her LinkedIn account and switched her gender to male. She also changed her name to Michael, she told ...
AI promises a smarter, faster, more efficient future, but beneath that optimism lies a quiet problem that’s getting worse: the data itself. We talk a lot about algorithms, but not enough about the ...
Joanne Orlando receives funding from NSW state government. Sharenting is widespread and persistent. A review of practices over the past ten years describes that parents commonly share details such as ...
Bitfarms Ltd., one of the largest cryptocurrency miners, said it plans to wind down those operations over the next two years and focus on providing infrastructure to generate computing power for ...
Cipher Mining (CIFR) jumped 19% on Monday after signing a $5.5 billion lease agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS), pushing deeper into the red-hot artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure. The ...
As AI becomes more common and decisions more data-driven, a new(ish) form of information is on the rise: synthetic data. And some proponents say it promises more privacy and other vital benefits. Data ...
The Bank of England is worried that a rise in financiers’ lending to data center lending may cause an AI bubble reminiscent of the dot-com crash in the early 2000s. The Bank of England is ...
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 22 (Reuters) - Google said it has developed a computer algorithm that points the way to practical applications for quantum computing and will be able to generate unique data for use ...
More than 800 U.S. TikTok users shared their data with The Washington Post. We used it to find out why some people become power users, spending hours per day scrolling. Each circle in the chart ...
Alphabet Inc.’s Google has agreed to anchor a $3 billion data center contract with Cipher Mining Inc. in the latest tie up between a crypto mining firm and a big tech company seeking computing ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Anisha Sircar is a journalist covering tech, finance and society. A preliminary TikTok deal proposes U.S. investors own 80% of its ...
A deal to prevent a US TikTok ban is now in place. The app’s algorithm will be copied, overseen by Oracle, and retrained using only American user data. This new, separate system addresses national ...