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Moderna-Merck Vaccine Cuts Recurrence And Spread of Melanoma, Raises New Treatment Hope – Slashdot
Reuters reports "a major success in a new field of cancer treatment this week, as Moderna and Merck announced a personalized mRNA cancer vaccine "reduced the risk of recurrence and spread of melanoma in a late-stage trial". ...
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Your Expired Visa Card Could Be ‘Zombified’ to Make Contactless Payments
As the controversial vehicle surveillance giant Flock Safety continues to expand, WIRED got the code for the company’s new AI policing tool and reconstructed the software to show that its capabilities go far beyond reading license plates and tracking...
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Michael Polansky is training an AI model on skin that’s still alive | TechCrunch
Michael Polansky is remarkably unassuming for someone operating in a corner of the world known for outsize egos.Seated at a leafy patio outside a popular bakery in Mill Valley, an affluent town about 15 miles north of San Francisco,...
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Japanese space tech startup Letara expands beyond satellite thrusters with $16M | TechCrunch
Japan is pouring billions of dollars into its burgeoning space industry and easing restrictions on defense exports, efforts designed to build a homegrown aerospace sector filled with domestic startups that have a global reach.Letara, a Sapporo-based startup developing hybrid...
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The Unlikely Place at the Center of China’s AI Boom
Travel just two hours west of Beijing by train, and you’ll find yourself surrounded by the rolling grasslands and ancient cinder cones of Inner Mongolia. This vast, arid land has long been China’s capital of sheep farming and coal...
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TikTok to pay $400 million to settle claims it violated children’s online privacy laws
The Department of Justice said on Friday that TikTok and China's ByteDance have agreed to...
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Woman covertly filmed by Meta AI smart glasses raises privacy and consent concerns:
A woman discovered she had been secretly filmed by a man wearing Meta's AI-powered smart glasses when friends and people she hadn't talked to in years sent her a video posted on social media. "It went...
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This IEEE Senior Member Develops AI Tools for E-Commerce Sites
Balaji Ingole rarely saw televisions while growing up in Udgir, India. No one in the small Maharashtra village had computers or phones. Only one household owned a television, and neighbors often gathered there to watch shows together.Ingole never even...
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Meta’s Big Reckoning Is Here
My colleague Paresh Dave and I each spent a day in federal court in Oakland, California, this week, monitoring the latest Meta child safety trial.In case you missed it in the spring, Meta (along with YouTube) lost a landmark...
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Looking into the privacy safeguard features of AI smart glasses
Looking into the privacy safeguard features of AI smart glasses - CBS News ...
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Lenín Moreno: Former Ecuadorian president imprisoned for corruption
A former president of Ecuador has been sentenced to five years in prison after being found guilty of taking...