Less than two years after Google fired two researchers who criticized the biases built into artificial intelligence systems, the company fired a researcher who questioned… Read More »Another Fire Under Google’s AI Brain Trust and More Disagreements
enlarge † CEO Elon Musk at the SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California, on October 10, 2019. Elon Musk has raised $8.5 billion by selling part… Read More »Elon Musk sold $8.5 billion worth of Tesla stock after agreeing to a $44 billion Twitter deal
Conservative attorney George Conway threw back some of Donald Trump’s recent taunts at him on Sunday after the former president seemed to forget who he… Read More »George Conway mocks Trump by launching his own attack on him
Mr Mehta told every company that he was talking to one of its biggest competitors so it had to act fast. But the discussions didn’t… Read More »Instacart’s pandemic boom is fading
CBS news videos Passage: Memory of Naomi Judd We learned on Saturday of the death, at age 76, of country music legend Naomi Judd, mother… Read More »Memory of the late country star Naomi Judd
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A woman accused of drunk driving blamed her GPS for attempting to drive down stairs at a police station, police said. The 26-year-old drove through… Read More »Accused drunk driver who tried to drive down stairs said she was following GPS, police say
The new arrangement freed Mr Ive from the regular commute to the company’s Cupertino offices. He switched from almost daily product reviews to an irregular… Read More »Why Jony Ive left Apple to the ‘accountants’
COVID has exposed the prevalence of racial inequalities in our healthcare system, which has cost countless lives. Oprah Winfrey, executive producer of the Smithsonian Channel… Read More »Oprah Winfrey on Racial Health Disparities in America
The Large Magellanic Cloud, the largest satellite galaxy in the Milky Way. Accurate estimates of the distance to this galaxy help calibrate measurements of the… Read More »Scientists destroy Earth’s location in hopes of reaching aliens
Mickle builds a dense, pixelated mosaic of the company’s trials and triumphs, showing us how Apple, building on Ive’s successes in the 2000s, became Cook’s… Read More »Review: ‘After Steve: How Apple Became a Trillion Dollar Company and Lost Its Soul’, by Tripp Mickle
Dear Abby, A few months ago I volunteered to help an old friend with some landscaping. The area to be built is small. I was… Read More »Landscape project from hell destroys a friendship
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The remains discovered during a search of the Houston area in December have been identified as those of Taylor Pomaski, the missing girlfriend of former… Read More »Remains found in Texas, identified as missing girlfriend of ex-NFL player Kevin Ware
Still, the interest rates on the loans reflect the risk that they may not be repaid. The banks don’t hold the loans, they sell them… Read More »Can Elon Musk Make Twitter’s Numbers Work?
