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What’s Got into the ‘Herald on Sunday’?

What’s Got into the ‘Herald on Sunday’?

There was actually a negative headline in the editorial of May 2, 2021, about Joe Biden in the Herald on Sunday. It said, “President nobody is watching”. Then a bit of sarcasm was added. “In case you missed it President Joe Biden held his first address to Congress on Thursday”

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‘Can I See Your Parts List?’ What AI’s Attempted Chat-Up Lines Tell Us about Computer-Generated Language

‘Can I See Your Parts List?’ What AI’s Attempted Chat-Up Lines Tell Us about Computer-Generated Language

Stefanie Ullmann University of Cambridge Stefanie Ullmann is a Postdoctoral Research Associate on the project Giving Voice to Digital Democracies: The Social Impact of Artificially Intelligent Communications Technology, funded by the Humanities and Social Change International Foundation. Have you ever wondered what flirting with artificial intelligence would look like? Research

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Apple’s New ‘App Tracking Transparency’ Has Angered Facebook. How Does It Work, What’s All the Fuss about, and Should You Use It?

Paul Haskell-Dowland Edith Cowan University Nikolai Hampton Edith Cowan University Associate Professor Paul Haskell-Dowland is the Associate Dean for Computing and Security in the School of Science at Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia. Paul has delivered keynotes, invited presentations, workshops, professional development/training and seminars across the world for audiences

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Road Safety Watchdogs Urge Caution against ‘Unrealistic Expectations’ after UK Okays Use of Self-Driving Cars

rt.com The UK government has been accused of adding to the “confusion and frequent misuse” of assisted driving technology after its transport department green-lit the use of self-driving cars offering hands-free capability on motorways. By year’s end, vehicles with automated lane-keeping systems (ALKS) will be permitted on UK

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No Joke! Facebook Penalized the Babylon Bee for Making Fun of Rioters

No Joke! Facebook Penalized the Babylon Bee for Making Fun of Rioters

Autumn Johnson newsbusters.org Autumn is a practicing attorney licensed in the Commonwealth of Virginia and the District of Columbia. When not working, Autumn enjoys reading, writing, playing video games, and spending time with her cats. Facebook has penalized The Babylon Bee after the site posted a story making fun

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Will You Be Happy with the Government Tracking Your Every Kilometre?
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Will You Be Happy with the Government Tracking Your Every Kilometre?

National started looking at it a few years ago, Phil Twyford worked on it in 2019 and Michael Wood has been continuing the work to date. It seems that everyone is trying to figure out how to keep the cash flowing from the long-suffering cash-cow, the motorist. Stuff advises that

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Big Tech Protects Its BLM Bootboys

Big Tech Protects Its BLM Bootboys

The saying that “To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticise” might have a less-than-stellar pedigree, but that doesn’t make it untrue. The phrase originated, not with Voltaire as popularly supposed, but with genuine white nationalist Kevin Strom. Still, even a

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Little by Little, This Government Wants to Track Your Every Movement

Little by Little, This Government Wants to Track Your Every Movement

George Orwell’s prophecies are coming true. Little by little our freedoms are being eroded by technology and by a government willing to use that technology to track your every movement: Currently, electric vehicles are exempt from road-user charges, and do not pay fuel tax. If that exemption were ended

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A Different Lens: The Age of Surveillance

A Different Lens: The Age of Surveillance

lens.monash.edu Face-recognition technology means that any of us could be identified whenever we walk past a CCTV camera at train stations, busy intersections, shopping malls or airports. Our location can also be tracked via our smartphones, and our interests and social circle can be discovered via our Google

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