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Last week, we published three separate posts that looked at the FTC’s recent settlement with Aylo, the parent company of multiple adult websites including, most…
“Right now, there are real robotaxis carrying real people on real roads,” said Bryant Walker Smith, an AV researcher and professor at the University of South Ca…
"Thursday’s changes likely can’t be applied to data users have already shared with WhatsApp, said Ryan Calo, a professor of law at the University of Washin…
""Building secure software is a highly challenging task, even for a world-class team such as Apple's," Riana Pfefferkorn, Cryptography Fellow…
""Singapore's government has been an early and enthusiastic supporter of automated driving, especially as a way of improving urban mobility,"…
"“Just that difference points to the potential for large drones that carry people,” said Stanford robotics expert Bryant Walker Smith. Ride-hailing giant…
"In Uber’s Pittsburgh experiment, two company employees (a driver and an engineer) will ride in each car along with passengers, who must first agree to tak…
"Even with safety drivers, Uber’s wager is risky because the project will allow vastly more people to see the technology’s flaws, said Bryant Walker Smith,…
"Uber's move to carry people with autonomous vehicles is not surprising, given the company's history of pushing into gray areas where there is litt…
"By using human backup drivers, Uber is basically testing the technology and taking people along for the ride, said Bryant Walker Smith, a University of So…
""Pittsburgh is going to have some self-driving car tourism. That's exciting for them," says Bryant Walker Smith, an assistant professor at t…
"“Uber is doing the same thing many companies have been doing,” Bryant Walker Smith, an engineering professor at the University of South Carolina, told the…
"Net neutrality advocates criticized the feature on a number of fronts, including that the company's technical requirements excluded some video distrib…
"“Wikileaks does not appear to operate within any particular principles with regard to information dumps. The ad hoc nature of their leaks means that they…