Healthcare appointment site Doctoralia, which serves millions of people in Latin America and Europe, sent sensitive ...

A few weeks after Donald Trump’s surprise victory in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, a former Google engineer, Guillaume Chaslot, published an analysis claiming that YouTube’s algorithm had ...

Artificial intelligence models can produce lifelike video footage with a simple text prompt. But these tools still struggle with generating realistic videos of complex natural movements, like human ...

Marilyn Walto’s family didn’t expect her to make it through the year. A chronic disease was attacking her bile ducts and destroying her liver. Without a transplant, she would die. In an administrative ...

This article is a collaboration with Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting. Facebook is collecting ultrasensitive personal data about abortion seekers and enabling anti-abortion ...

Technology companies are locked in a frenzied arms race to release ever-more powerful artificial intelligence tools. To demonstrate that power, firms subject the tools to question-and-answer tests ...

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Meet Bùi Như Mai, a 67-year-old Vietnamese grandmother who is also a YouTube influencer. “I didn’t think I was going to be a YouTube newscaster at the age of 67. But these days you will often see me ...

Major tax filing services such as H&R Block, TaxAct, and TaxSlayer have been quietly transmitting sensitive financial information to Facebook when Americans file their taxes online, The Markup has ...

This story was copublished with Chalkbeat, a nonprofit news organization covering public education. Sign up for its newsletters here. Last summer, administrators at Bradford High School in Kenosha, ...

State regulators and consumer advocacy groups have scrutinized Allstate Corporation’s use of big data and personalized pricing in the way it calculates how much the company charges its private auto ...

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