Hi all, This was a hard email to write. Google is retaliating against several organizers. We are among them and here is what’s happening to us: Meredith Just after Google announced that it would disband its AI ethics council, I was informed my role would be changed dramatically. I’m told that to remain at the […]
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When the men’s basketball Final Four tips off Saturday in Minneapolis, the NCAA’s biggest and most lucrative event will proceed as it normally does: the athletes on the floor for Virginia and Auburn, Michigan State and Texas Tech, will play games that generate hundreds of millions of dollars in total revenue for their schools, the
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A retired top naval chief has criticised using gender neutral terms for ships as “political correctness gone made”. It comes after the Scottish Maritime Museum stopped calling ships and boats “she” when those words on information signs were scratched out by vandals. Admiral Lord West told the Today programme: “It is an insult to a
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WASHINGTON, March 27 (Reuters) ― U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry has approved six secret authorizations by companies to sell nuclear power technology and assistance to Saudi Arabia, according to a copy of a document seen by Reuters on Wednesday. The Trump administration has quietly pursued a wider deal on sharing U.S. nuclear power technology with
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Image copyright Family handout / PA Image caption Mike Davies said he accepted his hands and legs “needed to go” A man who almost died from meningitis has revealed how he began to look forward to having his limbs amputated. Mike Davies, 60, from Brighton, spent 70 days in intensive care with meningococcal meningitis and
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Image copyright Getty Images Jussie Smollett’s legal team is being sued for defamation by two brothers who say they continue to be accused of carrying out a racist and homophobic attack against the actor. Police say the attack was staged, which Smollett denies. Olabinjo Osundairo and Abimbola Osundairo say their reputations have been damaged as
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It’s been nearly four years since leaked documents revealed Exxon Mobil Corp. understood that fossil fuel emissions caused the planet to warm before it began funding a Big Tobacco-style misinformation campaign to discredit climate science. Now the world’s largest publicly traded oil company will face public questions for the first time over its role in
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All the stages have been passed for President Putin to sign the controversial ‘sovereign internet’ bill into law. This is part of the Kremlin’s wider aim to control internet access for Russians, which critics say is a form of censorship. BBC Monitoring looks at the ways the Russian government is changing its cyber rules, and
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Another visitor to Grand Canyon National Park has died after falling over the edge of the South Rim, authorities said Tuesday. A 70-year-old woman fell about 200 feet (61 meters) over the rim, the second over-the-edge death this month within the confines of the park, according to Grand Canyon officials. The woman had been walking
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Millions of drones buzzing through the air, delivering the groceries you need to make your dinner, the medicine you forgot to pick up from the pharmacy or even a hot cup of coffee. To some, it’s the inevitable, efficient future. To others, it might sound more like the beginnings of a dystopian horror story. Either
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