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Elizabeth Holmes, the CEO of the once highly touted blood-testing startup, is accused of an “elaborate years-long fraud.” Powered by WPeMatico
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European Union privacy rules may prompt removal of personal information from Whois lookups. Powered by WPeMatico
Read MoreFear of China Scuttles Broadcom Deal That Didn’t Involve China
President Trump invoked national security in blocking Broadcom’s proposed takeover of Qualcomm. His real concern may have been Qualcomm’s research budget. Powered by WPeMatico
Read MoreMaybe Election Poll Predictions Aren’t Broken After All
An analysis of polls from 32 countries since 1942 finds that they are no more—or less—accurate at predicting election winners than they used to be. Powered by WPeMatico
Read MoreFor News Publishers, Facebook Is a Less Reliable Friend
As Facebook’s share of traffic to news sites has been falling sharply since early last year—and will only decline more—Google AMP has been on the rise. Powered by WPeMatico
Read MoreRussia Didn’t Abuse Facebook — It Simply Used It As Intended
Opinion: When ISIS uses Twitter to recruit or a landlord uses Airbnb to discriminate, that’s not exploiting the platforms’ glitches—that’s using their features. Powered by WPeMatico
Read MoreThe Key to the Perfect March Madness Bracket: Evolution
To generate entire brackets is to tangle not just with the randomness of the game itself, but with the randomness of your betting pool. Powered by WPeMatico
Read MoreAI Has a Hallucination Problem That’s Proving Tough to Fix
Machine learning systems, like those used in self-driving cars, can be tricked into seeing objects that don’t exist. Defenses proposed by Google, Amazon, and others are vulnerable too. Powered by WPeMatico
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