two years ago, Twitter has launched what is arguably the tech industry’s most ambitious attempt at algorithm transparency. Its researchers wrote papers showing that Twitter’s artificial intelligence system for cropping images in tweets favored white faces and women, and that messages from the political right in several countries, including the US, UK and France, received...
Scientists have good estimates of where the receding ground line is, thanks to satellites tracking tiny changes in ice height. But they didn’t have a good picture of what a glacier’s stomach looks like on the ground line because it’s under thousands of feet of ice. “These data are really interesting because we are looking...
Musk also restricted the use of his Starlink satellite internet service in Ukraine and made statements that were interpreted as support for Russian claims to Ukrainian territory. Musk’s other company, Tesla, relies on China as a market, as a manufacturing center, and as a source of raw materials. anxiety that he could be pressured to...
In 2017 Hulu made television history by becoming the first streaming network to win an Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series, thanks to a phenomenon that The Handmaid’s Tale. While this morbidly prophetic adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s 1985 dystopian novel remains one of the best TV shows to watch on Hulu, it also set the...
Black curtains hang in the windows of a modest apartment in a suburb of Los Angeles, two blocks from the Pacific Ocean, blocking out the light. Inside, Thomas Pynchon, about thirty, clumsy, with a Zappa mustache, scribbles on reams of graph paper. The scene is spartan: a cot, a few books, a jumbled pile of...
“This is kind of a pivotal event for the spread of conspiracy theories and various anti-government and anti-media sentiment,” says Megan Conroy, an American fellow at the Atlantic Council, a foreign affairs think tank who has monitored social media coverage. crash. “There is a lack of clarity about what is happening on the ground in...
Argentina this week and Uruguay health emergency declared following outbreaks of the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza, a rapidly spreading virus that decimated poultry and wild bird flocks, feared for decades as a possible spark of a human pandemic. This means that the 10 countries in South America that recently experienced the virus for the...
unstoppable march artificial intelligence continues. In just a few weeks, AI has seeped into almost everything we interact with online, from conversations to journalism to how we search for information online. It even left Google struggling to reclaim its place on the search throne after Microsoft implemented its own AI tools to miraculously make Bing...
Using the Eero grid system without Ero Plus Subscription limits you to a basic set of options. You can schedule Wi-Fi downtime, set up a guest network, and use Eero as the center of your smart home. That might be enough for most, but here’s what you get if you subscribe. First, it’s worth noting...
Only In a little over a decade, the crypto world has gone from a single currency to millions of coins and assets, each promising a small stake in the next big deal. The challenge for anyone putting their money into this minefield posing as a goldmine is to distinguish the digital treasure from the many,...
