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Some of the ways scammers have used QR codes are by placing fraudulent QR codes on parking meters or by posing as legitimate businesses.
From air quality to Taylor Swift to baseball, here’s what was on Chicagoans’ minds this year, according to Google.
The nonprofit incubator mHUB and battery manufacturer NanoGraf opened facilities in a part of town that’s evolving into an innovation center.
Law enforcement routinely circumvents laws meant to protect privacy, by purchasing peoples’ personal information via data brokers. Sen. Dick Durbin should do more to stop it, the head of Lucy Parsons Lab writes.
Artificial intelligence is the tech story of 2023, and ‘hallucinate,’ referring to incorrect information generated by AI, was also chosen as a word of the year for 2023.
Accounts that haven’t been used in at least two years and deemed by the tech giant to be inactive could be deleted.
The court has the opportunity to reexamine the nature of content moderation and the constitutional limitations of the government regarding speech on platforms such as Facebook, X, TikTok, and Instagram.
A team of app developers looking to ease college and career searches and a 9th-grade debater hoping to bridge policy and people were among the students honored. “You will help us all build a better, stronger and much-safer Chicago,” Mayor Brandon Johnson said.
Steve Waithe, 30, was accused by federal authorities of using sham social media and email accounts to get women to send him nude or semi-nude photos.
Integrating artificial intelligence and data analytics into traffic management systems will make everyone safer, a tech executive writes.
The Hoffman Estates property the that retailer’s headquarters occupied in 1992 is likely to get a drastic makeover as empty offices make way for cyberspace.
The new tenants will bring the building at 2430 N. Halsted St. to 80% occupancy.
A Gallup poll found 28% of people 18 to 34 years old worry about being replaced by technology such as artificial intelligence.
Landing the $11 billion National Semiconductor Technology Center in Chicago would further solidify Illinois as a quantum technologies leader.
350 people will be laid off, many of them at Horizon’s U.S. base in Deerfield.
The Indiana Dunes, Illinois state parks or the city’s forest preserves offer the best views of the light show.
The social media platform said late Tuesday that it has started trying out the annual subscription method for new and unverified accounts.
Like all technology, we humans created AI and we can control it. As AI-enabled androids are produced and learn more about us, they’ll learn to fear us and our nuked-up, unstable world, a Chicago-area writer concludes.
The agency estimates that hundreds of thousands of taxpayers will participate in the limited rollout of the program for the 2024 filing season.
The retailer isn’t the only company to start moving away from physical media in recent months.
The company blamed a software bug and other issues tied to popular apps such as Instagram and Uber for causing its recently released iPhone 15 models to heat up.
The new Digital Equity Action Plan, announced Monday, identifies four major issues surrounding digital access.
The company said it is working on an update to the iPhone 15 lineup to prevent devices from becoming hot and is working with apps that are causing system overloads.
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