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Understanding the limits of deep learning by https://is.gd/IrDWuN

Artificial intelligence has reached peak hype. News outlets report that companies have replaced workers with IBM Watson and algorithms are beating doctors at diagnoses. New AI startups pop up every day and claim to solve all your personal and business problems with machine learning.

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How Uber Uses Psychological Tricks to Push Its Drivers’ Buttons by https://is.gd/9zPVpJ

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The secretive ride-hailing giant Uber rarely discusses internal matters in public. But in March, facing crises on multiple fronts, top officials convened a call for reporters to insist that Uber was changing its culture and would no longer tolerate “brilliant jerks.”

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Narro Reading of The inventor of the web warned that calls to weaken encryption are a ‘bad idea’

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Peter Macdiarmid/Getty ImagesSir Tim Berners-Lee inventor of the World Wide Web.LONDON — Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the web, has waded into Britain’s

How To Anonymise Your Browsing With A Tor-Powered Raspberry Pi by https://is.gd/vyxA0U

If you’ve been thinking about trying out Tor to anonymise all your web browsing, you could just download a browser and give that a spin, but it’s much more fun to make your own highly portable proxy that you can easily connect to on a whim. Enter the Raspberry Pi.

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How to delete cookies in Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and IE by https://is.gd/Z745PT

Cookies, small data files used by websites to track your internet usage, pose no threat to your computer. Some cookies can, however, compromise your privacy. They can also take up space–albeit a small amount–depending on how your operating system stores and retrieves data.

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