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The hidden cost of convenience: How your data pulls in hundreds of billions of dollars for app and social media companies
If you use apps that collect your data in some way, including those that give you directions, track your workouts or help you contact someone, or if you use social media platforms, your privacy is at risk.
Griffin on Tech: Facial recognition okay, Aussie jammers, and Lords revolt on AI
As an Aussie warship causes havoc for wireless internet providers, UK peers make a stand on copyright and AI, a major facial recognition trial proves its worth, and Wellington’s tech luminaries outline their ideas to revive the capital’s fortunes.
Griffin on Tech: Back to the business of being Elon, Welly’s tech-led revival
Well, it finally happened. The bromance that launched a thousand memes, inspired a thousand think pieces, and forced thousands of US government employees to update their résumés is over.
Can you upload a human mind into a computer? A neuroscientist ponders what’s possible
Science has a track record of turning theoretical possibilities into reality. Just because a concept seems terribly, unimaginably difficult doesn’t mean it’s impossible.
Social Media Is a Problem – But Blanket Bans Aren’t the Answer
Banning social media for under-16s? We explore whether this proposal is a solution, a distraction, or just the beginning of a much bigger conversation about online safety and responsibility.