Tag: Politics & Government
Sweeping White House executive order takes aim at AI’s toughest challenges
The Biden Administration unveiled its ambitious next steps in addressing and regulating artificial intelligence development on Monday. Its expansive new executive order seeks to establish further protections for the public as well as improve best practices for federal agencies and their contractors. "The President several months ago directed his team…
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The White House will reportedly reveal a ‘sweeping’ AI executive order on October 30
The Biden Administration is reportedly set to unveil a broad executive order on artificial intelligence next week. According to The Washington Post, the White House’s “sweeping order” would use the federal government’s purchasing power to enforce requirements on AI models before government agencies can use them. The order is reportedly…
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How a pioneering mixed-gender newsroom covered the A-bomb
Modern tech journalism would likely look far differently today, if not for the efforts of Dorothy Vaughan, Katherine Johnson and a host of other trailblazing female reporters who staffed the Science Service throughout the publication’s history. These journalists were among the very first science communicators, making sense of the newfangled…
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Hitting the Books: How NASA helped JFK build his ‘Nation of Immigrants’
The Apollo 11 moon landing was a seminal event in American history, one etched deeply into our nation’s collective psyche. The event ushered in an era of unbridled possibilities — the stars were finally coming into reach — and its effects were felt across the culture, from art and fashion…
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Hitting the Books: How SNAP’s digital services became an online quagmire
Nobody said dragging one of the largest government bureaucracies to ever exist into the digital era was going to be easy but the sheer scale and myriad variety of failings we have seen in recent decades have had very real, and near universally negative, consequences for the Americans reliant on…
Read MoreTwitter limits access to some tweets in Turkey ahead of tightly contested election
On the eve of potentially one of the most consequential elections in the country’s history, Twitter began blocking posts in Turkey. “In response to legal process and to ensure Twitter remains available to the people of Turkey, we have taken action to restrict access to some content in Turkey today,”…
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