In the 1970s, a crop of books purporting to provide a scientific basis for gender inequality met sharp criticism from figures like Stephen Jay Gould. Decades later, these debates have fallen out of public memory, but right-wing pseudoscience persists
The outage is emblematic of the way organizational networks, cloud computing services and the internet are interdependent, and the vulnerabilities this creates.
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CyberTracker, software developed in collaboration with Indigenous trackers, is enabling almost anyone to collect complex biodiversity data
A rarely used technique to upgrade old power lines could play a big role in fixing one of the largest obstacles facing clean energy, two reports found.
An eye-opening read traces today’s collective rage against big tech back to the Luddite uprising the industrial revolution.
Michael Klare on AI
“A lot of AI is coming into this world," said Roman Alejo, 34, a barista at the Sahara hotel-casino on the Las Vegas Strip. "It is very scary and very eye-opening to see how humans can think of replacing other humans."
Labor unions are having a comeback moment in the United States, and they are poised to become more influential as emerging technologies such as AI grip the U.S. job market and impact workers.
It’s been a big week for AI regulation—or at least, the idea of it. When it comes down to it, though, the US, the UK, and the EU are taking different approaches to the problem.
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