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Before February 2020, physical proximity was one of the most important factors in determining who got a new liver. The previous system divided the country into dozens of “donation service areas,” each ...
Machine Learning Teachers Are Using AI to Create New Worlds, Help Students with Homework, and Teach English Around the world, these seven teachers are making AI work for them and their students By ...
Pacific Gas and Electric, which runs Diablo Canyon, announced a deal with artificial intelligence startup Atomic Canyon —a company also based in San Luis Obispo—around the same time, heralding it in a ...
When The Markup and Consumer Reports conducted a statistical analysis of the Maryland documents, we found that, despite the purported complexity of Allstate’s price-adjustment algorithm, it was ...
The Markup, now a part of CalMatters, uses investigative reporting, data analysis, and software engineering to challenge technology to serve the public good. Sign up for Klaxon, a newsletter that ...
Blacklight is a real-time website privacy inspector. The tool emulates how a user might be surveilled while browsing the web. Users type a URL into Blacklight, and it visits the requested website, ...
Pixel Hunt Mortgage Brokers Sent People’s Estimated Credit, Address, and Veteran Status to Facebook More than 200 national and regional lenders share sensitive user data with Facebook. Experts say it ...
Artificial Intelligence Everyone Is Judging AI by These Tests. But Experts Say They’re Close to Meaningless Benchmarks used to rank AI models are several years old, often sourced from amateur websites ...
Still Loading See the Neighborhoods Internet Providers Excluded from Fast Internet Explore The Markup’s interactive map to see where AT&T, CenturyLink, and Verizon offered only slow internet speeds in ...
For years, tech savvy people have known that photos shot on your phone contain lots of information that you may not want revealed. The specific model of phone you use and the precise time and location ...
An illustration of a Taser-equipped drone, taken from Axon’s patent application. Axon In the wake of the board’s dissolution, Axon halted its Taser-drone program temporarily. Former board members, ...
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