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The chat bot likely saved drivers millions.

Who said that chat bots were gimmicks? Certainly not DoNotPay's Joshua Browder. He recently noted to VentureBeat that his service's AI-driven virtual lawyer has successfully contested 160,000 parking tickets in London and New York City in nearly 2 years of service, saving drivers millions in the process.[^]

SD Times[^]:

Boyd said he worked in medical technology for a year. While doing that, he said, “Everyone I worked with realized the implications when we got it wrong, that people’s lives were on the line. So, people are aware that this isn’t just ordering an airline ticket, that if you mistype an algorithm, if you do things sloppy, people can suffer or there can be bad outcomes.”

Of course, no software is without bugs, but the ways defects are prioritized and impacts are assessed are fundamental decisions made on a daily basis. And today, Boyd said, “We’re using judgments; we don’t have norms.”

The Stack[^]:

A recent study by researchers from the Mayo Clinic found that sending text messages on a smartphone creates a brand-new brain rhythm, different from any that have been previously described. This brainwave was found only in subjects who were text messaging, not in those performing other, similar tasks.

Gizmodo[^]:

Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have made a new measurement of Planck’s constant to a highly accurate degree. It’s the latest step toward improving the official definition of the kilogram, the unit of mass that underpins our entire international system of weights and measures.

Information Week[^]:

Behavioral biometrics technology and two-factor authentication are on the rise as safer alternatives, according to a study.

Neowin[^]:

In late March, at its Build 2016 developer conference, Microsoft revealed that Windows 10 had made its way to 270 million devices. Five weeks later, in early May, it said that that figure had climbed to 300 million.