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Author: Kyle Wiggers / Source: VentureBeat In a co-written letter, Meredith Whittaker — one of two Google employees who claim they’ve faced retaliation for organizing protests against their employer’s treatment of sexual harassment — alleged that she’d been pressured by Google to “abandon her

Author: Ina Fried / Source: Axios 1 big thing: Snap sees a future in services A slew of new updates, features and services unveiled by Snap Inc. Thursday capture the Santa Monica-based “camera company” in mid-evolution — from a chat platform to a broker of value-added services modeled on China’s

Source: MIT Technology Review Today The council lasted barely more than a week, after thousands of Google employees signed a petition calling for the removal of one member. The original plan: The Advanced Technology External Advisory Council was set up to “guide responsible development of AI”

Author: Stephen Johnson / Source: Big Think A Defense Department project has developed some of the first tools able to detect when videos have been digitally manipulated—content often called deepfake videos. Deepfake videos often feature one person’s face convincingly merged with another. Other

Author: Megan Gannon / Source: Atlas Obscura If you visit the remote ruins of Koh Ker today, you might have the ancient Cambodian city to yourself, at least if you wake up before sunrise to beat day-trippers from Siem Reap. From atop the main attraction, a seven-tiered pyramid temple called