Against a nationwide backdrop of book bans and censorship campaigns, Iowa educators are turning to ChatGPT to help decide which titles should be removed from their school library shelves in order to legally comply with recent Republican-backed state legislation, PopSci ...

On Thursday, California state regulators voted 3-1 in favor of allowing robotaxi services to begin paid, public 24/7 operations in San Francisco, effective immediately. The major industry approval comes after public and regulatory pushback. For example, during public testimony on ...

Back in March, Zoom released what appeared to be a standard update to its Terms of Service policies. Over the last few days, however, the legal fine print has gone viral thanks to Alex Ivanos via Stack Diary and other ...

The Federal Trade Commission, generally not known for flowery rhetoric or philosophical musings, took a moment on Monday to publicly ponder, “What exactly is ‘artificial intelligence’ anyway” in a vivid blog post from Michael Atleson, an attorney within the FTC’s ...

After over a century of illumination, incandescent light bulbs’ impact on American life is finally dimming. On August 1, a long-planned ban on most old-fashioned filament bulbs went into effect as part of regulators’ ongoing efforts to transition society towards ...

When Angela Walker first heard of the Supreme Court’s decision to outlaw affirmative action in college and university admissions, she found it disheartening. Now a medical director in Georgia, Walker credits part of her educational success to affirmative action and ...

Thousands of outsourced contract workers are reportedly paid as little as $14 an hour to review Google Bard’s wide-ranging responses at breakneck speeds to improve the AI program’s accuracy and consistency. The labor conditions, which allegedly have grown only more ...

Amid the rapid adoption of generative AI programs, many educators have voiced concerns about students misusing the systems to ghostwrite their written assignments. It didn’t take long for multiple digital “AI detection” tools to arrive on the scene, many of ...

Clicking “I Agree” on all those app and website Terms & Conditions grants companies a lot of data leeway, often including their ability to sell information such as your device location history. A data privacy bill recently proposed by Massachusetts ...

An estimated 61,000 trademark filers’ private addresses were accidentally made available within public records for years, according to a recent announcement from the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). In a notice first obtained by TechCrunch and subsequently provided to ...