AI models still racist, even with more balanced training
Plus: US government's NIST publishes 86-page report investigating algorithmic bias AI algorithms can still come loaded with racial bias...
Plus: US government's NIST publishes 86-page report investigating algorithmic bias AI algorithms can still come loaded with racial bias...
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Paramount keeps rebooting S tar Trek , and I keep coming back, hoping whatever they’re trying now will hit like The Next Generation did ba...
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CWU deputy secretary demands better pay for staff amid cost-of-living crisis The Communication and Workers Union (CWU) will this week publi...
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Mulch can serve a variety of purposes in a landscaped yard, from helping plants stay hydrated, to keeping weeds away. But if you live some...
When someone has road rage, everyone loses—including their fellow drivers. It can be distressing seeing (and possibly hearing) someone get ...
Let’s say you walk outside one morning only to find that it appears as though someone—or something—has been digging holes, searching for bu...
Nope, not Delta – it's a regional semi-private jet operator and service 'won't require' logins SpaceX has signed its first ...
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26 years and only two external exploits is not to be (packet) sniffed at The OpenBSD Project has released version 7.1 of its eponymous OS ...
One of my biggest takeaways from taking first aid and CPR classes is that if you’re going to have a medical emergency, do it with a friend....
You guys know I’m a fan of the devilishly hard Wordle variations, like Antiwordle and Squardle . But sometimes I just want to play a Wordl...
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No dark patterns, no Google nonsense ... Wow, what a superpower Alphabet's Google on Thursday said it has rolled out a new cookie conse...
I hate talking about cast iron. It’s just a pan (or a material with which they make pans, Dutch ovens, etc.), but it’s a pan that brings al...
You renovate your bathroom, only to realize too late that you haven’t accounted for sufficient storage in the shower. Or you’ve inherited a...
I mean, there's still so many, many IT depts to suck up into our cloud Amazon is not planning to spin off its Amazon Web Services (AWS)...
I use Apple Pay for everything. It’s fast, secure, and best of all it gives me 2% cash back on my Apple Card. However, some stores don’t st...
Music festivals have come a long way from the muddy fairgrounds of Woodstock in 1969. What started as an expression of counterculture has t...
We wrote last month about Hulu’s obsession with true crime, and the streamer is staying on that train in May. The platform will premiere C...
If you make a big mistake at work, losing your job—and the income and health insurance that comes with it—is the worst-case scenario, but i...
Production talent isn't here, costs are high ... so how that's multi-billion-dollar Arizona plant coming, eh? TSMC founder Morris C...
If you’re an avid Netflix viewer, you likely know the service is less than stellar when it comes to organization. Like many apps and progra...
Drinking wine is fun—the classy kind of fun—and nothing ruins classy fun like grimy little smudges and spots. If I’m serving wine to friend...
A federal judge in Florida struck down the federal mandate that called for passengers to be masked on all forms of public transportation , ...
Spotify’s free tier is a great to have—but it would be even better without all the ads. While we can’t get you all of Spotify’s premium fe...
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With the Windows 11 update, Microsoft’s Windows Store experiment is finally gaining some steam. But not every app is available on the Micro...
If you’re looking for an online version of a yard sale, chances are Facebook Marketplace has been your go-to hub in recent years. But ther...
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Plus: Driverless Cruise car gets pulled over by police, and more In brief AI software is being offered to sales teams to analyze whether ...
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Ask five people with dogs how often they wash their pet’s food bowl, and you’ll probably get five different answers. While there are likely...
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Wasps have a public relations problem. Sure, there are probably plenty of people out there who aren’t big fans of bees—especially if they’v...
Foundation makes 30k hours of speech and 340k keywords in 50 languages available online Unless you're an English speaker, and one with ...
Last weekend we talked about home bathroom sizes —as in, what you get in a half-bath versus a 3/4-bath or a full-bath. And while that infor...
I thought Waffle was unique: six Wordles in a grid, solvable in 10 to 15 guesses. But after I wrote about it, reader Carl Knecht tweeted ...
Terminal on your Mac can do some surprisingly useful things, such as check your internet’s speed, change which kinds of apps you see in the...
Over the approximately 18 years it takes to raise a child from infancy to a person somewhat ready for life outside your protective bubble, ...
The family of Gilbert Gottfried announced on Tuesday that the comedian had died following a long illness, later revealed to have been myoto...
In the market for your first Apple Watch? You might be tempted to go for the company’s cheapest offering. If you don’t know whether you’ll ...