Technology
After being Pushed out of Google, Timnit Gebru Forms Her Own AI Research Institute, DAIR
Timnit Gebru, one of the heads of Google’s ethics in AI team and a leading expert in the field, dismissed almost precisely one year ago…
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Chemistry
This Is Why Weed Smells So Skunky
To put it bluntly, cannabis smells. In addition, hey, we are not passing judgment; we are simply pointing out that there is a reason it…
Health
When Will Life Return To Normal after the Pandemic
Nobody can predict when life will return to normal following a specific incident, not least since what normal changes over time, even in normal times.…
Technology
This Seven-Question Test Can Determine How Wise You Are, Researchers Say
Groups of academics from the University of California, San Diego, have devised a new scale for calculating a person’s stockpile of metaphorical pearls of knowledge,…
Business
Use Radical Objectivity to Create and Retain an Inclusive Workforce
The era of corporate social justice is arrived. We are starting to see corporations fully embrace social action, with the commercial case for diversity, equality,…
Plants and Animals
Newly Discovered Dinosaur Had a Unique Weaponized Tail
A newly found ankylosaur species defended itself against predators using a tail weapon unlike anything seen before in the fossil record. Indeed, the greatest analog…
Plants and Animals
Gone Fishin’ Snow Monkeys Scoop up Fish When Food Is In Short Supply
The snow monkey (Japanese macaque Macaca fuscata) is no exception when it comes to problem-solving. When food is scarce, these creatures will resort to the…
Technology
New Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal Begins Restructuring as Two Execs step Down
Jack Dorsey, the co-founder, and CEO of Twitter, stood down from his position earlier this week. He named Parag Agrawal, the CTO, as the new…
Computer
New Techniques Extract more Precise Data from Images that have been Deteriorated by Environmental Factors
Automatic surveillance systems, self-driving cars, facial recognition, healthcare, and social distancing tools are all examples of where computer vision technology is being applied. Users need…
Astronomy
Scientists Argue that Water is not as Invincible as Previously Thought Within Dark, Polar Moon Craters
The Moon’s south pole region contains some of the solar system’s most extreme environments: it’s unbelievably cold, extensively cratered, and features sections that are either…
Medical
The Widely Used Race-Based Formula for Defining Lung Disease is being Called into Question in a New Study
According to new findings from a long-term epidemiologic study, one of medicine’s oldest racially-based diagnostic formulas is no better than a race-neutral equation, implying that…
Health
Researchers want to Develop Faster Medicine Combos for COVID-19 and the Next Deadly Virus in the Future
An international group of scientists has devised a strategy for generating medicine mixtures faster to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. The pipeline could hasten the development…
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