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The Affordable Connectivity Program has subsidized internet costs for 23 million households, allowing some customers to purchase home internet for the first time. Without action by Congress, the pandemic-era program will expire at the end of May.
Rebecca Portnoff, vice president of data science at Thorn, helped craft AI design principles for leaders in that space to follow to help stop the creation of AI-generated child sexual abuse material.
Boston Dynamics is retiring the original Atlas at the age of 11. TechCrunch’s Brian Heater discusses the pioneering bot’s legacy and what the company has in mind for its offspring.
