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The latest developments from the tech and science industry.
A Gallup poll found 28% of people 18 to 34 years old worry about being replaced by technology such as artificial intelligence.
Landing the $11 billion National Semiconductor Technology Center in Chicago would further solidify Illinois as a quantum technologies leader.
350 people will be laid off, many of them at Horizon’s U.S. base in Deerfield.
The Indiana Dunes, Illinois state parks or the city’s forest preserves offer the best views of the light show.
The social media platform said late Tuesday that it has started trying out the annual subscription method for new and unverified accounts.
Like all technology, we humans created AI and we can control it. As AI-enabled androids are produced and learn more about us, they’ll learn to fear us and our nuked-up, unstable world, a Chicago-area writer concludes.
The agency estimates that hundreds of thousands of taxpayers will participate in the limited rollout of the program for the 2024 filing season.
The retailer isn’t the only company to start moving away from physical media in recent months.
The company blamed a software bug and other issues tied to popular apps such as Instagram and Uber for causing its recently released iPhone 15 models to heat up.
The new Digital Equity Action Plan, announced Monday, identifies four major issues surrounding digital access.
The company said it is working on an update to the iPhone 15 lineup to prevent devices from becoming hot and is working with apps that are causing system overloads.
The event was part of Amazon’s joint partnership with the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign to create a center that would focus on the development and research of AI into a new, more intelligent form.
As the only member of Congress with a Ph.D. in physics, Foster is using AI to learn more about a field that fascinates many and terrifies others, including federal officials.
The FTC accused Epic Games of using “design tricks aimed at getting consumers of all ages to make unintended in-game purchases” and making it easy for kids to rack up charges without parental consent.
The company said Tuesday its shopping wing, called TikTok Shop, will include several features, such as a “Shop Tab,” a marketplace it’s been testing on the app since August.
The biggest change is expected to be a switch to charging system, adopting the USB-C standard.
Rival social platforms already offer voice and video calls. Meta introduced voice and video calls on Messenger in 2015. Snapchat added them in 2016.
Donald Trump’s Twitter account was suspended by the company on Jan. 8, 2021, citing fears he would incite more violence following the deadly storming of the Capitol.
The complaint alleges Kia and Hyundai failed to equip their U.S. cars with anti-theft technology after a surge in thefts sparked by videos on TikTok and YouTube showing how to steal cars without keys.
Waymo autonomous taxis are working the streets of San Francisco and Phoenix, now, soon to add LA and, eventually, Chicago.
Nvidia’s specialized chips powered the firm to second-quarter revenue of $13.51 billion, or $2.48 per share, more than nine times higher than the company made a year ago.
A video released by the Marion County Record shows Joan Meyer confronting police who raided her home Aug. 11. Meyer died the next day. Her son, the newspaper’s editor, believes the stress of the raid contributed to her death.
A key question is what can be done to make algorithms foster accurate human social learning rather than exploit social learning biases.
Powers granted by the bill would invite more unconstitutional mischief, especially in the hands of ideologically driven, politically ambitious attorneys general.
The video conferencing firm that saw growth during the pandemic is asking employees who live within a 50-mile radius of its offices to work onsite two days a week.
Regulating fast-changing AI systems won’t be easy. How do we allow for maximum benefits while building in protections for civil liberties and privacy?
Leaving the science to the experts, the governor and former Chicago mayor concentrate on bringing attention and funds to support the experimental field of quantum computing, which has the potential for faster development of vaccines and unhackable computers.
‘Zuck v Musk fight will be live-streamed on X,’ Elon Musk wrote in a post Sunday on the platform. ‘All proceeds will go to charity for veterans.’
A former Air Force intelligence officer testifies that the military denied him access to information on a multi-decade policy of crash retrieval and reverse engineering.