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How Can We Talk About Autonomous Weapons?

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This article is part of our Autonomous Weapons Challenges series. In order to address the legal and ethical issues that an autonomous weapons system (AWS) can raise, it’s important to look at the many technical challenges that arise along the full spectrum of autonomy. Determining legal obligations. Ensuring robustness.

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Worldwide Campaign for Neurorights Notches Its First Win

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Concepts such as “brain data” need to be clarified, critics say, because a broad definition could include behavioral data that reflects what’s going on in a person’s mind, which many companies already collect. The right to personal identity. The 5 Neurorights. The right to mental privacy. The right to free will. IEEE Spectrum.

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Developing the Next Generation of AI Assistant

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This sponsored article is brought to you by the NYU Tandon School of Engineering. Claudio Silva, NYU Tandon VIDA comprises nine full-time faculty members focused on applying the latest advances in computing and data science to solve varied data-related issues, including quality, efficiency, reproducibility, and legal and ethical implications.

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Inventing Postscript, the Tech That Took the Pain out of Printing

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This article was first published as "‘PostScript’ prints anything: a case history." It would have been quite different had Warnock and company not been in the right place at the right time to meet the right person. Gee,’ I said, ‘A secret standard—I find this a hard concept to understand.’” of Cupertino, Calif.) but also C. “If

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How the Graphical User Interface Was Invented

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This article was first published as “Of Mice and menus: designing the user-friendly interface.” Throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, many of the early concepts for windows, menus, icons, and mice were arduously researched at Xerox Corp.’s brought the friendly interface to thousands of personal computer users. Cupertino, Calif.,

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How Much Privacy Do You Really Have In Modern Vehicles?

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While we’ve covered the topic frequently , articles have typically focused on specific issues rather than overall scope. Our main concern is that we can’t tell whether any of the cars encrypt all of the personal information that sits on the car. And that’s the bare minimum! Here’s what we do know.

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

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This article was first published as “Marcian E Hoff.” In May 1971 an article in Datamation magazine mentioned the product, and the following November Intel produced its first ad for the 4004 CPU and placed it in Electronic News. While a research manager at Intel Corp., It appeared in the February 1994 issue of IEEE Spectrum.

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