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‘No place for killer robots in our city’: San Francisco abandons controversial policy after backlash | US News
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Killer robots will not be rolled out in San Francisco after all – with police performing a U-turn just days after the controversial policy was announced. The San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) had mooted the deployment of robots equipped with explosive charges “to contact, incapacitate, or disorient violent, armed, or dangerous suspects” when lives were…
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Twitter quietly drops policy preventing sharing of COVID-19 misinformation | Science & Tech News
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Twitter has quietly dropped its policy preventing the sharing of false or misleading information about COVID-19. Under the policy, tweets containing misleading information about the disease could be given a label including corrective information about the claim. Tweets that violated the policy and were severely harmful could be deleted and the users temporarily locked out…