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    • Members of the anti-vaccine community are experienced at exploiting weaknesses of social media platforms and are primed to sow doubts about a COVID-19 vaccine (Kevin Roose/New York Times)

    Kevin Roose / New York Times: Members of the anti-vaccine community are experienced at exploiting weaknesses of social media platforms and are primed to sow doubts about a COVID-19 vaccine  —  Social media is already filling up with misinformation about a Covid-19 vaccine, months or years before one even exists. Members of the anti-vaccine community

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    Critics of the FCC's Lifeline telecommunication subsidy program say the government doesn't promote the service enough and has restrictive mobile data caps (Emmanuel Martinez/The Markup)

    {$inline_image} Emmanuel Martinez / The Markup: Critics of the FCC’s Lifeline telecommunication subsidy program say the government doesn’t promote the service enough and has restrictive mobile data caps  —  As America’s financial distress deepens, with unemployment reaching levels not seen since the Great Depression … Critics of the FCC's Lifeline telecommunication subsidy program say the

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    • Critics of the FCC's Lifeline telecommunication subsidy program say the government doesn't promote the service enough and has restrictive mobile data caps (Emmanuel Martinez/The Markup)

    Emmanuel Martinez / The Markup: Critics of the FCC’s Lifeline telecommunication subsidy program say the government doesn’t promote the service enough and has restrictive mobile data caps  —  As America’s financial distress deepens, with unemployment reaching levels not seen since the Great Depression … Critics of the FCC's Lifeline telecommunication subsidy program say the government

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    • Nvidia launches Clara Guardian, an edge AI system that uses sensors for contactless patient monitoring to limit infectious disease spread, in 50 hospitals (Khari Johnson/VentureBeat)

    Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: Nvidia launches Clara Guardian, an edge AI system that uses sensors for contactless patient monitoring to limit infectious disease spread, in 50 hospitals  —  Nvidia today announced the launch of Clara Guardian, a smart hospital edge AI system that uses sensors to limit the spread … Nvidia launches Clara Guardian, an

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    • Microsoft opens up its threat intelligence data, including file hash indicators used in email scams, to wider security community via GitHub during the pandemic (Shannon Vavra/CyberScoop)

    Shannon Vavra / CyberScoop: Microsoft opens up its threat intelligence data, including file hash indicators used in email scams, to wider security community via GitHub during the pandemic  —  Microsoft is making the threat intelligence it’s collected on coronavirus-related hacking campaigns public, the company announced Thursday. Microsoft opens up its threat intelligence data, including file

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    As pandemic-related budget cuts come to call centers, organizations turn to chatbots like IBM's Watson to filter calls, reducing the need for human operators (Karen Hao/MIT Technology Review)

    {$inline_image} Karen Hao / MIT Technology Review: As pandemic-related budget cuts come to call centers, organizations turn to chatbots like IBM’s Watson to filter calls, reducing the need for human operators  —  Covid-19 is accelerating job losses in an industry that was already automating work at a rapid pace.  —  Brian Pokorny had heard of

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    • As pandemic-related budget cuts come to call centers, organizations turn to chatbots like IBM's Watson to filter calls, reducing the need for human operators (Karen Hao/MIT Technology Review)

    Karen Hao / MIT Technology Review: As pandemic-related budget cuts come to call centers, organizations turn to chatbots like IBM’s Watson to filter calls, reducing the need for human operators  —  Covid-19 is accelerating job losses in an industry that was already automating work at a rapid pace.  —  Brian Pokorny had heard of AI

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