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Facebook’s Internet for All Is a Tough Sell in India
Facebook’s attempt to get more people in India online is struggling because the free Internet service the company offers is perceived as low-quality and is unknown to many people. The social network’s effort to help more people online serves a mix of philanthropic and corporate objectives and has met resistance in other places around the world (see “Facebook’s Internet.org Hits Global Flak”).
CISA Security Bill Passes Senate with Privacy Flaws Unfixed
Legislation known as CISA is intended to curtail breaches of corporate data by requiring companies to share data from their networks with the Department of Homeland Security and other government agencies. Civil liberties groups are concerned this will create a loophole that exposes user data to government access without proper safeguards.
Epic Fail
The U.S. government has handed out $28 billion to encourage doctors and hospitals to switch to electronic health records, hoping it will make health care cheaper and more effective. Returns have been slight because the funds have helped prop up companies building closed-off systems that don’t interoperate.
Google Turning Its Lucrative Web Search Over to AI Machines
Google has enhanced its search engine with an artificial neural network that has learned to relate different words based on their meaning. The same technology is being used by Facebook to try to make software capable of basic conversation (see “Teaching Machines to Understand Us”).
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Design thinking was supposed to fix the world. Where did it go wrong?
An approach that promised to democratize design may have done the opposite.
Sam Altman invested $180 million into a company trying to delay death
Can anti-aging breakthroughs add 10 healthy years to the human life span? The CEO of OpenAI is paying to find out.
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