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Microsoft Stops Selling Emotion-Reading Tech, Limits Face Recognition

Microsoft Corp on Tuesday said it would stop selling technology that guesses someone's emotion based on a facial image and would no longer provide unfettered access to facial recognition technology. The actions reflect efforts by leading cloud providers to rein in sensitive technologies on their own as lawmakers in the…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Stonewall visitor center will be dedicated to LGBTQ history

A visitor center dedicated to telling the story of LGBTQ rights movement will open next door to the Stonewall Inn

The Independent UK

Wales' up-and-coming locations set to be the next UK property hot spots

The property 'ripple effect' could be coming to these locations soon

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From AIs to an unhappy elephant, the legal question of who is a person is approaching a reckoning

Happy the elephant’s story is a sad one. She is currently a resident of the Bronx Zoo in the US, where the Nonhuman Rights Project (a civil rights organisation) claims she is subject to unlawful detention. The campaigners sought a writ of habeas corpus on Happy’s behalf to request that…

The Conversation

The Northern Agenda: Deserted stations and busy picket lines as rail strike grips North

Liverpool, Newcastle, Manchester and Leeds stations all eerily quiet

Liverpool Echo

I am not a robot: iOS verification update marks end of ‘captchas’

Tests where you are asked to spot traffic lights or type out wobbly letters may be a thing of the past

The Guardian - UK

Lebanese Publishers: Readers Don’t Trust Arabic Books, Prefer Translated Ones

Publishers admit that Arabic readers favor translated books. Every publisher has his own explanation of this phenomenon and the reasons behind it, but they all agree it’s not healthy. According to Rana Idris, owner of Dar Al Adab Publishing, people in the Gulf region are the top buyers of translated…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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Maryland Apple store workers face hurdles after their vote to unionize

Workers at a Maryland Apple store voted to form a union. But forming a union is a lengthy process that labor experts say is heavily stacked against workers in favor of their employers.

WEKU

From text messages to fraudulent ads, how scammers are draining bank accounts

In the 25 years Helen Cahill has kept the books for her small business, she's never had any trouble doing online banking. Until last month.

ABC News

Lawsuit claims Google division is staffed by members of New Age 'cult'

The Fellowship of Friends apparently runs deep in the Google Developer Studio, and they'd like to keep it that way.

Input

Mexico Court Fines Google ~$200M Over Defamatory Google-Hosted Blog Post

From Mexico News Daily Friday: Mexico City court has ordered tech giant Google to pay more than 4 billion pesos (US $196.4 million) to a Mexican lawyer for allowing defamatory information to be published about him on a blogging platform it owns. Ulrich Richter Morales, a criminal lawyer, initiated legal…

Reason

Petty Google thinks Drake's 'Texts Go Green' is about RCS

Give it up, guys.

Input

Australia Offers a Terrifying Vision of an Internet Without Section 230

What happens when YouTube and Facebook can be held liable for their users’ speech?

Reason

Parmy Olson: AI’s hold over humans is starting to get stronger

It has been an exasperating week for computer scientists. They’ve been falling over each other to publicly denounce claims from Google engineer Blake Lemoine, chronicled in a Washington Post report, that his employer’s language-predicting system was sentient and deserved all of the rights associated with consciousness.

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Anti-abortion police could criminalise period-tracking app data and search history. Inside the battle to stop them

Legislation could prevent sensitive user data in menstrual-tracking apps and search engine results from being used to prosecute abortion providers, Alex Woodward reports

Reason

Senators Want To Control Google Search Results About Abortion

Plus: Uvalde cops didn't check classroom door, Texas GOP slides further to the right, telemedicine deregulation in peril, and more...

Los Angeles Times

Commentary: What should we do if a chatbot has thoughts and feelings?

Recently, a Google engineer, Blake Lemoine, was suspended when he claimed that a Google chatbot called LaMDA (language model for dialogue applications) had become sentient, or capable of feeling. Lemoine shared transcripts of conversations with LaMDA, in which LaMDA claimed to be able to think and feel in many of…

The New Daily

Alan Kohler: Sentient or not, AI needs regulating

We need the digital equivalent of the ingredients lists and nutrition panels we get on food packets: We deserve to know what is being put in our minds.

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Maryland Apple store union vote marks latest in labor drives

A vote by Apple store employees in a Baltimore suburb marks the latest labor drive at big companies in recent months

Axios

Some Democrats urge Google to fix search results leading to fake abortion clinics

The lawmakers wrote that the issue was "especially concerning" given the Supreme Court's looming decision on Roe v. Wade.

Dynamite News

Readdle's powerful Calendars app is now available on Mac

Readdle, which is most known for its iOS PDF and document productivity apps, also provides a Calendars app that combines tasks, to-dos, and reminders, and it's now available for Mac.

The Guardian - UK

Forget sentience… the worry is that AI copies human bias

The fuss about a bot’s ‘consciousness’ obscures far more troubling concerns

Manchester Evening News

The 300m high beauty spot called The Cloud with awesome views and rare double sunsets

The top of the peak can be reached with a short walk, making it the perfect beauty spot to visit on summer evenings

Bristol Post

Planet Ice Bristol responds to TripAdvisor reviews criticising 'overpriced' and crowded rink

It's been eight months since the highly-anticipated opening, and reviews have been mixed since then

The Independent UK

Apple workers vote to unionize at Maryland store

More than 100 employees of an Apple store in a Baltimore suburb say they have voted to unionize by a nearly 2-to-1 margin

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