Law
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A new draft order from the FCC is set to overturn the Obama-era net neutrality regulations and open the floodgates for internet service providers to treat traffic however they wish. Does this new order go too far?
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Twitter and the US government are at legal loggerheads after the social media platform filed a lawsuit in response to a demand from the Department of Homeland Security seeking the identity of an anonymous anti-Trump account.
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Amazon is currently battling the State of Arkansas, which wants Amazon to deliver any information that may have been collected by an Echo device owned by a defendant charged with murder. Amazon is arguing such data is protected by the owner's First Amendment rights.
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As more jobs are becoming automated, there are calls for everything from a robot tax to universal basic income to deal with the dramatic shift in the underlying structures of labor economies over the next 20 to 50 years. But what do these proposals truly mean and can any be properly implemented?
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The European Parliament has voted on a resolution to regulate the development of artificial intelligence and robotics. The proposed rules include establishing ethical standards for the development of AI, and introducing an insurance scheme for accidents involving driverless cars.
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Net neutrality has been a hot-button issue for several years now, but what exactly does it mean? Should governments be stepping in and regulating this new digital space, or do we let the free market take care of it?
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Filmmakers behind the Star Trek fan film Axanar can stand down from red alert status. A settlement has been reached between CBS, Paramount and the filmakers, meaning the potentially nasty copyright trial that was set to begin on January 31 has now been avoided.
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A draft report submitted to the European Parliament's legal affairs committee recommends that robots be equipped with a "kill switch" in order to manage the potential dangers in the evolving field of self-learning autonomous robotics.
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Wheel boots are heavy and cumbersome to carry, plus the people who put them on typically have to kneel dangerously close to passing traffic. That's why New York-based Ideas That Stick developed the windshield-blocking Barnacle.
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The US government is introducing a new Federal Automated Vehicles Policy that will finally begin to set up a national framework for not just putting algorithms in the driver's seat, but eventually doing away with that seat altogether.
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We cover a lot of Passive Houses here at Gizmag, but they're still relatively rare. Which is why it's exciting that Ireland's Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council has reportedly passed a law requiring that all new homes be built to the green standard.
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There's a challenge when you're developing lie-detection software – you can get people to lie in a lab setting, but their behaviour won't be the same as it would be in a real-world scenario. That's why scientists have turned to videos of courtroom testimonies.
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