Donald Trump’s accounts have been banned on Twitter, Facebook, and a host of other platforms. Every last one of @realdonaldtrump’s 47,000 tweets vanished from the site in an instant, from […]
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Back to news homeTimnit Gebru’s Exit From Google Exposes a Crisis in AI
This year has held many things, among them bold claims of artificial intelligence breakthroughs. Industry commentators speculated that the language-generation model GPT-3 may have achieved “artificial general intelligence,” while others […]
Hamlet 2000 Has Never Made More Sense
This year marks the 20th anniversary of Hamlet 2000, a stealthy masterpiece adapted and directed by Michael Almereyda. It drew admirers at the time, but everything was American Beauty in […]
Sorry, Facebook. iOS Changes Aren’t Bad for Small Businesses
It’s true that small businesses generally depend on advertising. In recent years, because of the overwhelming popularity of social media, and Facebook’s monopoly in that space, that’s meant that many […]
Here’s a Plan to Stop the Coronavirus From Mutating
Another group, writing in The New England Journal of Medicine earlier this month, detailed the trajectory of the virus in a 45-year-old man with an autoimmune disorder for which he […]
The Race for a Covid Vaccine Was More About Luck Than Tech
It’s been a constant theme in coverage of the new Covid vaccines: A years-long process of research and development has been condensed, via breakthrough mRNA technologies, into a matter of […]