To the designer Susan Kare, designing icons was about solving ‘the little puzzle of making an image fit a metaphor’. Forty years later, that challenge remains.
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Europe has now published its plans to secure its ‘tech sovereignty.
A massive new data centre in Sydney is the latest push in the AI boom – but a backlash is building.
Allowing people to fly drones beyond their line of sight could greatly expand commercial applications.
The risk to firefighters isn’t just from breathing wildfire smoke – it’s also in the chemicals that get on their clothes and filter through to their skin.
As more services move online, a study based on interviews with over-65s reveals growing barriers to staying connected, informed and independent.
Generative AI systems show signs of being addictive, but the evidence is still at an early stage.
New AI-based facial recognition techniques are reducing false positive and false negative matches.
Data sovereignty is not just a technical issue — it is a collective challenge that all Canadians need to start taking seriously.
AI models can simulate the answers thousands of people would provide to a survey, but the results aren’t a reliable measure of what real people would actually say.
The press is an important platform for creating and spreading new linguistic forms.
You can wear a mask, pull up a hood, avoid looking at a camera – but you cannot easily change how you walk.
In his first encyclical, Pope Leo XIV has called for much closer regulation of AI technology, particularly in military settings.
Sodium-ion batteries use more abundant raw materials but don’t currently perform as well as those made with lithium.
Efforts to use technology to police copyright evolved into companies using copyright law to lock people out of repairing their own devices.
Having digital autonomy is more important than ever, and the European Union is showing how it can be done.
Quantum computers are still a work in progress but quantum sensors are already in use at hospitals, laboratories and by defense contractors.
More ‘natural’ collaboration between scientists and computers won’t necessarily be more effective.
A hurricane scientist explains the technology forecasters rely on to keep people safe and help communities all along the Atlantic coast know when to evacuate.
Encountering a website that seems like it was designed to frustrate might leave you saying ‘there oughta be a law,’ but to have a case you need to show that the site tried to swindle you.
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Professor of Information Systems, Michigan State University
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Teaching Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, and Associate Director, UMBC Cybersecurity Institute, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School; University of Toronto
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Director of the Center for National Security Initiatives and Professor of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder
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Researcher, Digital Wellbeing, Western Sydney University
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Affiliated Faculty Member, Institute for Computational and Data Sciences, Penn State
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Associate Professor of Information Science, University of Colorado Boulder
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Professor of Philosophy and Director of Applied Ethics Center, UMass Boston
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Professor of Advanced Technology Transitions, Arizona State University
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Industry Professor of Emerging Technology and Co-Director, Human Technology Institute, University of Technology Sydney
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Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Applied Ethics and CyberSecurity, Griffith University
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University Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Iowa State University
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Senior Lecturer in Economics, Lancaster University Management School, Lancaster University
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Affiliate, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University