Top news of the week: 13.10.2021.
Applied Use Cases
Mass surveillance. An infringement of our fundamental rights or a tool to protect society? The EU has sided with the former.
https://t.co/Adg8O6mgSC
#ai #surveillance #civilrights #eu
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MEPs back AI mass surveillance ban for the EU
MEPs voted 377 to 248 in favour of the ban, which comes on the back of a report on the use of AI technologies in criminal law.
RT @FrRonconi: 20,000 #6G-related patent applications have been filed: 40% originated from #China, 35% from #USA
https://t.co/pDRJAbMuDx v/ @StatistaCharts @MikeQuindazzi
#Mobile #5G #IoT
@chboursin @mvollmer1 @baski_LA @JoannMoretti @globaliqx @PawlowskiMario @WSWMUC @Shi4Tech @kalydeoo https://t.co/bAqkUyUFYe
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China Leads the 6G Charge
This chart shows the countries and regions with the most 6G patent applications as of 2021.
Sfera Labs in Italy has introduced the first industrial product based around our low cost Raspberry Pi RP2040 microcontroller 🥇
Take a look at The Iono RP:
https://t.co/sbjVonTApa https://t.co/H14s0BnMx9
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First industrial programmable I/O module with Raspberry Pi micro
The Iono RP from Sfera Labs is a programmable DIN I/O module based around the Raspberry Pi RP2040 microcontroller
Algorithms shouldn’t be protected by Section 230, Facebook whistleblower tells Senate https://t.co/4BFKwt0ARQ by @tdechant
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Algorithms shouldn’t be protected by Section 230, Facebook whistleblower tells Senate
Section 230 reform is just a start, Frances Haugen says in Senate testimony.
A whistleblower carted out internal Facebook documents and gave damning testimony to Congress. Will anything change? https://t.co/CssuQ92wYY https://t.co/Ona60P9L9K
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Whistleblower: Facebook undermines kids and democracy. Will Congress do something?
A Facebook whistleblower told Congress the company harms kids and democratic governance.
Fair warning, this @danengber story is a nightmarish read for parents. It's about a roboticist struggling against the limits of technology as he tries to heal his daughter's brain injury.
I've thought about it every day since I first read it:
https://t.co/IVNbOOiQij
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A Peer-Reviewed Portrait of Suffering
James and Lindsay Sulzer have spent their careers developing technologies to help people recover from disease or injury. Their daughter’s freak accident changed their work—and lives—forever.