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Jon Bentley sounds a word of warning about surveillance cameras’ facial recognition and how this could impinge on your life

Driving change MY FIRST WAYMO IS LOCKED IN A STANDOFF with a human rival. I’ve hailed the driverless cab in a tricky triangular parking lot in Austin, and when it pulls in—a hulking white all-electric

WITH SO MUCH HYPE CIRCULATING ABOUT HOWWITH SO MUCH HYPE CIRCULATING ABOUT HOW ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE WILL CHANGE THE WORLD—BUT NOT A LOT OF CONCRETE SUCCESSES—HERE ARE SIX LESSONS YOU CAN ACTUALLY USE

Trend-setting health tech In a stressful period in 2021, Tom Hale was having trouble sleeping. He bought an Oura Ring, the pioneering smart device that tracks stats about sleep and health, and made a

‘‘ I would like to make my own witness statement,” said Christopher Pelkey as he stood before Judge Todd Lang in Arizona’s Maricopa County Superior Court, dressed slightly incongruously in a green hoo

Privacy pioneer In March, Meredith Whittaker, president of encrypted messaging app Signal, learned about the Trump Administration’s Signal-gate scandal from a group chat. Slack-jawed, she read the Atl