Bloomberg Law Brief: Qualcomm Sued Over Chip Pricing
Matt Larson, a litigation analyst for Bloomberg Intelligence, and Andrea Matwyshyn, a professor at Northeastern University, discuss a lawsuit between Apple and…
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Biased bots: Human prejudices sneak into artificial intelligence systems
""Questions about fairness and bias in machine learning are tremendously important for our society," said researcher Arvind Narayanan, an assista…
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AI programs exhibit racial and gender biases, research reveals
"“A major reason we chose to study word embeddings is that they have been spectacularly successful in the last few years in helping computers make sense of…
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Most forensic science isn’t real science. Try telling that to the criminal justice system.
Earlier this week, the Justice Department announced that Attorney General Jeff Sessions was ending the National Commission on Forensic Science and suspending a…
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Princeton-Fung Global Forum asks if liberty can survive the digital age
"With new technology has come cheaper forms of surveillance, according to Harlan Yu, who received a Ph.D. in 2012. Yu is a principal at Upturn, an organiza…
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Uber’s self-driving plans hit bump in the road
“We are at the point where companies are really understanding there is a lot of money at stake,” says Bryant Walker Smith, a professor of law and engineering at…
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Is Bad News for LiveJournal Bad News for the DMCA Safe Harbors? (Post 3 of 3)
This is the last of three posts on the Ninth Circuit’s decision in Mavrix v. LiveJournal. The first post considered the court’s conclusion that LiveJournal’s mo…
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Axon Offers Free Body Cameras To Police For A Year, But Some Critics Find The Deal 'Troubling'
"Interview Highlights: Elizabeth Joh On her qualms about one company giving out these cameras "I wouldn't say I'm not a big fan, but I think…
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Robots to deliver Yelp Eat24 dinners in two SF neighborhoods
"Bryant Walker Smith, a law professor at University of South Carolina and Stanford who studies autonomous vehicles, said he thinks ground robots could even…
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Economists are arguing over how their profession messed up during the Great Recession. This is what happened.
Over the past two weeks, academic economists (and a couple of bystanders) have been arguing about why economics wasn’t able to guide policy better during the Gr…
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‘Motley Crew’ Is The Unsettling Future Of Drone Warfare
"Anti-autonomous weapons advocate groups are concerned about how these cooperative swarms will select targets, according to Peter Asaro, co-founder of the…
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Is Bad News for LiveJournal Bad News for the DMCA Safe Harbors? (Post 2 of 3)
This is the second of three posts on the Ninth Circuit’s decision in Mavrix v. LiveJournal. The first post considered (and found fault with) the court’s conclus…