Artificial intelligence promises to make medicine smarter. But what happens when these software systems don’t work as advertised?
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How an Obscure Company Took Down Big Chunks of the Internet
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Microsoft: This clever open-source technique helps to protect your privacy
Adding statistical noise to a data set can guarantee that there are no accidental information leaks. It’s a difficult task, made easier by the open-source SmartNoise framework.
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What’s Google Floc? And How Does It Affect Your Privacy?
There’s a battle raging over how advertisers can target us on the web—or whether they should be able to target us at all.
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The once-stodgy enterprise server platform used to have to stretch to do everything, but is now a high-performance system building on the best of Azure for an ‘insanely ambitious’ future of collaboration and content management.
How Tech Transformed How We Hook Up—and Break Up
This week, we look at how living online makes it harder to forget a love that’s been lost and easier to find love once again.
I Use Motion Smoothing on My TV—and Maybe You Should Too
There, I said it! But there are some good reasons to use it, depending on your display.
YouTube Has a Disturbingly Creepy Minecraft Problem
A WIRED investigation has found dozens of kid-focused videos with disturbing thumbnails that the platform serves up on the Topic pages of popular games.