NEWS AND ANALYSIS: China is advancing its domestic, dual-use biological research capabilities with applications for the People’s Liberation Army germ warfare programs, according to an open-source intelligence report. Recent virology studies “demonstrate that China is now able to operate its own dual-use virology research agenda on-shore and without international inputs or considerations,” according to a […]
The Supreme Court on Monday waded into the thorny intersection of social media companies and free speech, struggling to figure out whether state laws seeking to stop the tech giants’ censorship is worse than the censorship itself. Justices seemed skeptical of the states’ cases that they can control how Facebook and YouTube police their pages, […]
Artificial intelligence specialists warned the Defense Department on Thursday that China has caught up in the AI arms race and has even pulled ahead of America in some areas. The AI experts, who are working closely with the Pentagon, cautioned those attending a government-organized symposium on AI against overestimating America’s advantage in its high-tech competition […]
SAN FRANCISCO — Internet networking pioneer Cisco Systems is jettisoning more than 4,000 employees, joining the parade of technology companies in a trend that has helped boost their profits and stock prices while providing a sobering reminder of the job insecurity hanging over an industry increasingly embracing artificial intelligence. The mass layoffs announced Wednesday in […]
Just in case your opinion of the Transportation Security Administration wasn’t low enough already, now they’re going to be getting even more of your biometric data. According to a Monday report in tech policy outlet Nextgov/FCW, the TSA is planning a rollout of new facial-scanning units at over 400 airports in the United States and […]
The CEO’s of five leading social media companies showed up to Congress today where they were grilled by Senators on both sides of the aisle for more than three hours. At the center of the questioning was concern over children, specifically the spread of child sex abuse images on the various sites. Child sex images […]
LONDON — Online retailer eBay Inc. will cut about 1,000 jobs, or an estimated 9% of its full-time workforce, saying its number of employees and costs have exceeded how much the business is growing in a slowing economy. It marks the latest layoffs in the tech industry. CEO Jamie Iannone said in a message to […]
The CEO of Illinois-based tech company Vistex died and the company’s president was injured when they fell from a cage lift at a company event last week in Rangareddy, India. Sanjay Shah, 56, who founded Vistex in 1999, was killed in the accident as he and company president Vishwanath Datla, 52, were being lowered onto […]
A prominent U.S.-based technology executive has died in a freak accident. Sanjay Shah, who was CEO of Illinois-based revenue management company Vistex, fell to his death after a cable holding up an iron cage snapped. The incident took place at Ramoji Film City in Hyderabad, India on Thursday during a two-day long company-wide celebration for […]
Apple Watches will be on sale this week despite an import ban from the U.S. International Trade Commission over Apple’s use of copyrighted blood oxygen reading technology. On Wednesday, the tech giant announced it would remove the oxygen tool from the Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2. The watches were to go on sale […]
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