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Chatbots can discern your personal details from what you type, study says.
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It’s only been about a year since Uber Eats began deploying food delivery robots throughout select parts of Los Angeles and, already, concerns have been raised that the squat little automatons could become a police surveillance tool.

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Rep. Lauren Boebert's caught-on-camera moment shouldn't come as a surprise.
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The entrance to TikTok's company headquarters in Singapore features a brightly colored mural on the wall reading
The entrance to TikTok's company headquarters in Singapore features a brightly colored mural on the wall reading "come as you are."
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The U.S. Customs and Border Protection has offered a slim olive branch to one U.S. senator and the many rights groups critical of the agency’s use of commercial and seized smartphone data. According to the office of Sen. Ron Wyden, the CBP said it will stop “utilizing Commercial Telemetry Data (CTD)”—AKA users’…

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Gizmodo : Sports

When the Philadelphia Phillies baseball team introduced its new “Go-Ahead Entry” facial recognition authentication method last week, it was intended to decrease wait times and increase efficiency.

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The federal government is investing $22 million in developing washable smart clothing — like socks, underwear, shirts, and pants — according to The Intercept.
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New Yorkers kicking back with beers and burgers this Labor Day weekend could have an unexpected guest hovering over their backyards.

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If you’ve already had your iris scanned for Worldcoin’s crypto-based “free money” promise, your biometric investment has been cut in half since launch.

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X (the social media site formerly known as Twitter) is in the process of launching a new identity verification feature that could prove controversial.