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In Tesla Autopilot probe, US prosecutors focus on securities, wire fraud – ET Auto

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Tesla videos demonstrating the technology that remain archived on its website say: “The person in the driver’s seat is only there for legal reasons. Musk has aggressively touted the prowess of Tesla’s driver-assistance technology for nearly a decade. He is not doing anything. The car is driving itself.”

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Chips to Compute With Encrypted Data Are Coming

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This article is part of our special report Top Tech 2024. You can even think of Apple’s App Store policies against data sharing as a kind of data-protection regulation. This article appears in the January 2024 print issue. Patient data is protected by law in the United States and elsewhere. billion fine for Meta.

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Behind the Scenes of Spectrum’s Dive into the Atari 2600 Design

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We recently republished the article , which first came out long before Spectrum (or anyone) even had a website. After some legal wrangling, we were able to publish. Just months after Spectrum ’s article was published, the videogame market cratered in what is now known as the Video Game Crash of 1983.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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That device, now known by a variety of names—including memory stick, USB stick, flash drive, as well as thumb drive—changed the way computer files are stored and transferred. Good-bye, floppy disk Before the invention of the thumb drive, computer users stored and transported their files using floppy disks. It was called the ThumbDrive.

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What is Tesla’s Full Self Driving and why its China rollout matters – ET Auto

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Musk has long touted the FSD technology as a potential cash cow for the company but has failed to keep his promise of a fully autonomous driving experience, amid stiff regulatory and legal scrutiny of Tesla’s safety and marketing.

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The Creepy New Digital Afterlife Industry

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This article is adapted from the author’s new book , We, the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age (MIT Press, 2023). Microsoft reportedly decided against turning this idea into a product, but the company didn’t stop because of legal or rights-based reasons. Store the plan in a secure location, either in digital or paper form.

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One Way to Stop the Social Spread of Disinformation

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A decentralized cloud would minimize the need to use third-party services to manage and store data on people and business enterprises. The HEC can allow consumers to better control how their data is stored, shared, and monetized, Alamouti says. He says IEEE was the first to publish his articles.