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Weaponized Robots Letter Calls for Policy, Tech Fixes

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Yesterday, six companies that build or support sophisticated mobile robots (led by Boston Dynamics). We also call on every organization, developer, researcher, and user in the robotics community to make similar pledges not to build, authorize, support, or enable the attachment of weaponry to such robots.

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Heat Pumps—The Well-Tempered Future of A/Cs

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Heat pumps offer ways of addressing all three of the major sources of building-related climate-forcing emissions, Romanin says. In southern Arizona, where most people only use the heat for a couple of weeks a year, the conversion may not even require a subsidy to add up.

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The Creepy New Digital Afterlife Industry

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Consider that Microsoft has a patent for creating a conversational chatbot of a specific person using their “social data.” Microsoft reportedly decided against turning this idea into a product, but the company didn’t stop because of legal or rights-based reasons. The chatbot would then talk “as” that person. Others may recoil.

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Tata AutoComp’s ‘Make in India’ push for EVs | Autocar Professional

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Because of the support of Tata Motors — the passenger and commercial vehicle business, along with JLR — we were able to build the whole ecosystem for EVs,” he said. These are fairly well established, and Tata AutoComp is looking to enhance the rest of the portfolio, with their focus on higher tech, light-weighting and localisation.

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Worldwide Campaign for Neurorights Notches Its First Win

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Indeed, 2022 may be the year that neurorights becomes a hot topic, bringing the young neurotech industry and the human rights community into uncomfortable conversations. Legal scholars working with the NeuroRights Foundation say the right to mental privacy is under the most imminent threat. Spain’s new. Staff attorney.

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How Police Exploited the Capitol Riot’s Digital Records

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It served cell service and tech companies with geofence warrants—search warrants demanding details on every device and app active within a specified geographic area. The legal documents suggest that about 35 rioters were identified this way, without first being named by witnesses. on 6 January. “The The FBI did not use anything new.

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Why AI Should Move Slow and Fix Things

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She reminds engineers that default settings are not neutral, that convenient datasets may be rife with ethical and legal problems , and that benchmarks aren’t always assessing the right things. What can engineers do if they’re concerned about algorithmic bias and other issues regarding AI ethics, but they work for a typical big tech company?