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Kevin Magee (Microsoft), Christopher Salvatore (Cybersecure Catalyst), and Tahseen Shabab (Penfield) explore how Canada can build a cybersecurity ecosystem.

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DeepMind said that its system, called AlphaFold, had solved what is known as the protein folding problem.

Gebru is known for coauthoring a groundbreaking paper that showed facial recognition to be less accurate at identifying women and people of color, which means its use can end up discriminating against them.

The merger with Star Peak will give Stem an estimated $608 million in gross proceeds to invest in its burgeoning smart grid technology which helps support green forms of energy.

Scale, which charges based on the amount of data it processes for customers, has seen major growth by working with DoorDash.

Startups raised a total of $349.5 million in Q3 2020, a 135 percent increase for the Waterloo Region.

If signed into law, Massachusetts would become the first state to fully ban the technology, following bans barring the use of facial recognition in police body cameras and other, more limited city-specific bans on the tech.

A growing group of lawyers are uncovering, navigating, and fighting the automated systems that deny the poor housing, jobs, and basic services.

A 12,000-person survey found that workers around the globe are looking to AI-powered digital assistants and chatbots to cope with mental health during the pandemic.

In one Southern California city, flying drones with artificial intelligence are aiding investigations while presenting new civil rights questions.

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