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When I communicate via telephone or video, I would like to get an honest answer to the question "Are you human or an AI"? With GPT-3 and deepfakes improving, the day will soon be here when we are confronted with virtual…

PART 1 New Privacy and Terms Yahoo is now part of Oath, the media and tech company behind today’s top news, sports and entertainment sites and apps. By choosing “I accept” below, you agree to Oath’s new Terms of Service…

Some time ago, I thought that semiautomatic weapons should be illegal in cities and densely populated areas. After all, why would anyone use a weapon when the human population is an order of magnitude greater than the…

It seems that the nation-state is buried in our DNA. We still like to belong to a tribe. All conflict today is still rooted in the differences of our tribes. Leaving aside for the moment why humans like to celebrate…

Our legacy methods of solving crime typically use historical data from the private user data space. Is it possible to identify crime from public data only? Does investigation of a crime necessarily require violation of…

Anecdotal evidence of government incompetence is not the issue. Rather, why doesn't Apple sue the govt for negligence in preventing terrorism in the US. AND simultaneously demonstrate they are better at solving crimes…

Two factor authentication (where google, yahoo,etc) send you a text with a secret code for you to login is a bit of a pain. I would rather have a 'log' of my logins whereever I go in my email. Obviously if I see an…

My extent of remote computing is using putty to ssh into a server. I am under the impression that the cloud is much more. Words like ' dynamic scaling', 'spinning up another machine' mean little to me. What is the…