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The True Cost of Westworld's Robot Sex
"Patrick Lin, Ph.D., the director of the Ethics and Emerging Sciences Group at California Polytechnic University, fears that sexbots might make us less hum…
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United States Cedes Control of the Internet
"Andrew Bridges with Fenwick West in San Francisco submitted an amicus brief to Hanks on Friday on behalf of the Internet Association, the Internet Infrast…
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In the race for drone delivery, the U.K. is way ahead of the U.S.
"“I think people forget how lucky the U.S. got with the internet,” said Ryan Calo, a technology law professor at the University of Washington. The reason…
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How the Legacy of Slavery Is Very Much Still with U.S.
"AMY GOODMAN: On Saturday, just before I sat down with Ava DuVernay, I sat down with two of the people featured in the film. Among those who are in the fil…
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Researchers ask federal court to unseal years of surveillance records
"Two lawyers and legal researchers based at Stanford University have formally asked a federal court in San Francisco to unseal numerous records of surveill…
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Elon Musk, billionaire tech idealist and space entrepreneur
"“Elon Musk is a great visionary and a great inventor, and you have to admire his ambition and his moxie,” says Patrick Lin, philosophy professor and head…
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Researchers file for access to court orders that force companies to break their own encryption
"The researchers are members of the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School and part of the organization’s Crypto Policy Project, a group es…
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Shaheen Shariff on rape culture on university campuses
Professor Shaheen Shariff of the Department of Integrated Studies in Education, Faculty of Education has embarked upon an ambitious seven-year project to addres…
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Over $10 million in SSHRC funding to support McGill research
"The Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada recently announced the recipients of its latest round of Insight, Insight Development, and Pa…
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Could a revenge porn case in Northern Ireland change Facebook across the planet?
""It is fairly easy for all these companies to figure out where all this data is coming from," Danielle Citron, who authored Hate Crimes in Cyber…
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The Gray Area of Driverless Car Regulation
"The draft rules in California, where 15 companies are currently testing driverless vehicles, “will probably be either substantially reworked or superseded…
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Autonomous What? Americans Aren’t Sure What Self-Driving Cars Are All About
"“Broadly, the public has been really confused about what automation means, about the technologies and applications, and the business cases and the timelin…