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An insurance company has increased premiums for those with Hotmail address. The machine learning algorithm decided that Hotmail users are more likely to crash . “Certain…

Again we have another AutoPilot Tesla accident. Fortunately there were no injuries. Again, we have Tesla selling a production car yet playing the legal game where the…

Suppose I make a new proof of stake coin. The supply is fixed and coins are not earned by any nodes. There are no transaction fees. The only way to get coins is to somehow…

Should we really expect that Bitcoin continues to be "social scalable"? Should we really expect that technology alone will run autonomously and scale seamlessly? What reason…

Raiblocks lacks settlement finality. The main issue is that only the receiver is responsible for the final signature to confirm a transaction. What problems could this lead…

It seems that it's possible to have a spender with negative balance or even incorrect balance? The whitepaper doesn't clarify how the following ledger attack is prevented? How…

Raiblocks promises "unlimited scalability and no transaction fees" . What about security? Potential Balance attack Cliff notes - there isn't sufficient information to…

When data is received from a device, what guarantees do we have that the data is indeed authentic? Trusted hardware leads us to believe that a device with a trusted platform…

LIDAR has been advancing rapidly in the past year. While Elon Musk has famously denounced the merits of LIDAR here , here here That said, I don’t think you need…

The NHTSA has standardized the event data recorder in vehicles in response to the investigation and issues that occurred during the US Toyota brake pedal acceleration…

More than 143 million Americans have had their personal information exposed in the Equifax hack. The most prudent action is to freeze your files. These are the sites to do…

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is set to be implemented 25 May 2018. Though in a series of post lets examine the history and motivation of GDPR. The GDPR stems from…

Yahoo is now being sued by data breach victims ( This shifts a turn in policy where agencies have been largely complacent in allow companies to "learn" from their data breach…

All newly manufactured passenger vehicles after September 1, 2014 are required to include an event data recorder ("black box"). What does it do? It collects data on a loop…

The complexity of deep learning algorithms has exceeded the point where humans are able to comprehend "why" an algorithm arrived at a particular decision. The implications are…

Vehicle to vehicle communications is being pushed and standardized as a traffic safety solution. The idea is that vehicles talking and communicating their actions allows them to…

Germany has created the first commission ethics rules regarding governance of self-driving vehicles. Importantly, the self driving vehicle should avoid at all costs harming…

Should there be a federal agency to oversee and coordinate vehicle platoons? Similar to the Federal Aviation Administration? Truck platoons are already traveling over Europe…

There are two extremes regarding the design of self-driving vehicle infrastructure and dependent systems, completely independent and connected. The first extreme is seen by the…

In the proposed edge computing infrastructure, how much will trust play a role? Social scalability has long been fraught with issues and cause for concern. What is needed is…