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Google told its scientists to 'strike a positive tone' in AI research - documents Toggle share menu Advertisement Google told its scientists to 'strike a positive tone' in AI research - documents Alphabet Inc's Google this year moved to tighten control over its scientists' papers by launching a "sensitive topics" review, and in at least three cases requested authors refrain from casting its technology in a negative light, according to internal communications and interviews with researchers involved in the work. FILE PHOTO: A Google sign is shown...

23 Dec 2020 / 19:01 H. By Paresh Dave and Jeffrey Dastin OAKLAND, Calif., Dec 23 (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's Google this year moved to tighten control over its scientists' papers by launching a "sensitive topics" review, and in at least three cases requested authors refrain from casting its technology in a negative light, according to internal communications and interviews with researchers involved in the work. Google's new review procedure asks that researchers consult with legal, policy and public relations teams before pursuing topics such as face and sentiment analysis and categorizations...

Two HIV vaccine trials launched in Uganda December 23, 2020 One of the volunteers getting the jab PrEPVacc is, for the first time, trialing two HIV vaccine regimens in Uganda, and at the same time testing a new form of daily oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) against the existing standard for PrEP. The PrEPVacc trial, testing two ways to prevent HIV at the same time was launched on December 20 and begun giving its first injections and medicines to participants, at the Medical Research Council/Uganda Virus Research Institute and London School of ...

CUPERTINO, Calif. (Reuters) — Apple is moving forward with self-driving car technology and is targeting 2024 to produce a passenger vehicle that could include its own breakthrough battery technology, people familiar with the matter told Reuters. The iPhone maker's automotive efforts, known as Project Titan, have proceeded unevenly since 2014 when it first started to design its own vehicle from scratch. At one point, Apple drew back the effort to focus on software and reassessed its goals. Doug Field, an Apple veteran who had worked at Tesla Inc., returned to oversee the project in 2018 and ...

10 Min Read Dec 19 (Reuters) - Speaking at a private dinner for tech security executives at the St. Regis Hotel in San Francisco in late February, America’s top cyber defense chief boasted how well his organizations protect the country from spies. U.S. teams were “understanding the adversary better than the adversary understands themselves,” said General Paul Nakasone, boss of the National Security Agency (NSA) and U.S. Cyber Command, according to a Reuters reporter present at the Feb. 26 dinner. His speech has not been previously reported. Yet even as he spoke, hackers were embedding m...