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How to address artificial intelligence fairness
Jan 28, 2021 07:16Now that artificial intelligence (AI) is providing an increasing number of recommendations to human decision-makers, it is important to make sure that, as a technology, it is not biased and thus respects the value of fairness.
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As economic suffering grips regular Americans, Wall Street behemoths ready feast of stock buybacks
Jan 28, 2021 06:57For millions of regular Americans, the end of 2020 was marked by economic distress, with millions suffering pandemic-triggered job losses—and thus the loss of their employer-tied health insurance—still waiting on robust economic relief from federal lawmakers, and facing a weak social safety net.
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Why your face could be set to replace your bank card
Jan 28, 2021 02:29Welcome to the futuristic world of facial recognition payment. It might sound like something from a science fiction movie, but this kind of transaction is already happening millions of times a day across China's major cities.
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Fauci says he was the 'skunk at the picnic' in Trump's COVID team
Jan 27, 2021 16:53Dr Anthony Fauci was the “skunk at the picnic” in Donald Trump’s White House coronavirus taskforce, the top US public health expert told the New York Times in a candid interview on Sunday (24 Jan 2021).
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US House delivers article of impeachment against Donald Trump to Senate
Jan 27, 2021 16:43The US House of Representatives delivered its article of impeachment against Donald Trump to the Senate on Monday evening (25 Jan 2021), setting the stage for the first ever Senate trial of a former US president.
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How coronavirus has totally transformed society in America
Jan 27, 2021 16:34The true, lasting effects of the coronavirus will stay with Americans for generations, even beyond the grisly death toll or economic effects.
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About suffering: A massacre of the innocents in Yemen
Jan 26, 2021 20:56Equipped with US-manufactured Littoral Combat Ships, the Saudis have been able to blockade air and seaports that are vital to feeding the most populated part of Yemen – the northern area where 80 percent of the population lives.
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What new COVID variants mean for schools is not yet clear
Jan 26, 2021 20:54The emergence of fast-spreading coronavirus variants has once again put a spotlight on the role of children in the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Experts warn US civil rights fallout from COVID could be far worse than the pandemic itself
Jan 26, 2021 20:51As US President Biden signs a national mask mandate into law, measures being imposed in the name of protecting public health could create a humanitarian crisis that sees Americans sued by the state and forced into detention camps for breaking pandemic protocols
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Biden administration only has appearance of diversity
Jan 26, 2021 05:53The orientalist games that are played by America's ruling class, must be overcome. It is ultimately an insult that a man who had supported the Iraq war, helped write the infamous Crime Bill and was vice-president to a man who massacred black and brown people in seven different countries, is praised as some sort of triumph of progressivism.