This year although we’re not reporting from Hawaii, Qualcomm’s Tech Summit is still happening in digital form, representing the company’s most important launch event of the year as it showcases the new flagship products that will power next year’s smartphones.…

Timnit Gebru, a critic of some of the firm's policies, says she was dismissed over an internal email.

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Scientists are finally starting to understand the centuries-old mystery of “ballooning.”

An open-source guide to help you write better command-line programs, taking traditional UNIX principles and updating them for the modern day.

A study from Korea showing why indoor dining is unsafe and why airborne transmission matters. Case B infected case A from 6.5m (~21 feet!) away in *just five minutes*, and case C from 4.8m (15 feet!). Footage shows no interaction—and only those in line of…

It is the first bill of its kind taken up by either chamber of Congress but faces an uncertain future.

The U.S. House of Representatives voted on Friday to decriminalize marijuana at the federal level, but the legislation is not expected to advance further as long as the Senate remains in Republican hands.

About Google's approach to research publication I understand the concern over Timnit Gebru’s resignation from Google. She’s done a great deal to move the field forward with her research. I wanted to share the email I sent to Google Research and some thoughts…

Why does Canada allow this company to profit off videos of exploitation and assault?

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When the business icon died in a fire last week, questions abounded. The answers seem rooted in a Covid-period spiral, where he turned to drugs and shunned old friends.