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Supreme Court Declines to Rule on Tech Platforms’ Free Speech Rights

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The Supreme Court on Monday avoided a definitive resolution of challenges to laws in Florida and Texas that curb the power of social...
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Meta’s Ad-Free Subscription Violates Competition Law, E.U. Says

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When Meta introduced a subscription option last year that would allow users in the European Union to pay for an advertising-free experience of...
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Scientists in Japan Give Robots a Fleshy Face and a Smile

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Engineers in Japan are trying to get robots to imitate that particularly human expression — the smile.They have created a face mask from...
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Facial Recognition Led to Wrongful Arrests. So Detroit Is Making Changes.

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In January 2020, Robert Williams spent 30 hours in a Detroit jail because facial recognition technology suggested he was a criminal. The match...
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Record Labels Sue A.I. Music Generators, Inside the Pentagon’s Tech Upgrade and HatGPT

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Listen to and follow ‘Hard Fork’Apple | Spotify | Amazon | YouTubeRecord labels — including Sony, Universal and Warner — are suing two...
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The Voices of A.I. Are Telling Us a Lot

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What does artificial intelligence sound like? Hollywood has been imagining it for decades. Now A.I. developers are cribbing from the movies, crafting voices...
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Uber and Lyft Agree to Give Massachusetts Drivers Minimum Pay

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Uber and Lyft settled a yearslong legal dispute with the attorney general in Massachusetts on Thursday, agreeing to pay their drivers in the...
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Cellphone Outage in Europe Leaves Many U.S. Travelers Disconnected

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Many travelers from the United States lost a crucial tool to check maps, make reservations, use ride-hailing apps and more because of a...
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New Tactic in China’s Information War: Harassing a Critic’s Child in the U.S.

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Deng Yuwen, a prominent Chinese writer who now lives in exile in the suburbs of Philadelphia, has regularly criticized China and its authoritarian...
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Now Narrating the Olympics: A.I.-Al Michaels

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The Olympics have ancient beginnings. Now, they will also have a dose of the latest technology.This year, highlights from the Summer Olympics will...
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