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The New York Times reports that professors Karle Flanagan and Wade Fagen-Ulmschneider, known as the Data Science Duo, recently confronted a group of students in their introductory data science course who had been accused of cheating and falsifying their attendance records. The professors grew suspicious when they received dozens of nearly identical apology emails from…

Trump’s Assistant Secretary of Commerce and administrator of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, Arielle Roth, outlined the Administration’s policies for reforming the wasteful Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program in a speech at the Hudson Institute this week. According to Roth, “For years, BEAD was weighed down by red tape and extralegal conditions that…

SFGate reports that during an onstage discussion with TechCrunch’s transportation editor Kirsten Korosec at the annual Disrupt conference in San Francisco, Tekedra Mawakana, Co-CEO of Waymo, addressed the hypothetical scenario of a fatal crash involving a self-driving car. Despite the company’s unwavering focus on safety, Mawakana acknowledged that achieving perfection in autonomous vehicle technology is…

In a recent memo, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has pushed back against what he calls a “doomsday outlook” on climate change, signaling a shift in his views on the risks posed by a warming planet. Despite the move, he remains an extremist on a variety of issues, including his belief that we need a new…

Wired reports that the real estate industry is no stranger to technological advancements, but the rise of AI is taking the sector by storm. From AI-generated property videos and virtual staging to chatbots and predictive analytics, the industry is undergoing a significant shift in how properties are marketed and transactions are conducted. One of the…

A new report from Reuters based on internal research from Meta, the parent company of Instagram, has shed light on the platform’s troubling tendency to show more eating disorder-linked content to vulnerable teens. The research found that teenagers who expressed dissatisfaction with their bodies were exposed to a significantly higher proportion of potentially harmful posts compared…

The Wall Street Journal reports that in a report released on Friday, ISS expressed concerns about the magnitude and design of Elon Musk’s proposed “astronomical” stock award, despite the fact that Musk would only receive the payouts if he creates enormous value for Tesla shareholders. The proxy firm also recommended that shareholders vote against a…

Thousands of civil liberties advocates gathered in London on Saturday to protest against the left-wing Labour Party government’s plan to impose digital ID cards on the nation. Marching from Marble Arch to Whitehall in central London, demonstrators were seen carrying banners and placards reading “No to Digital ID”, “If You Accept Digital ID Today, You’ve Accepted…

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, announced this week that ChatGPT will soon allow for “erotica” content in the spirit of treating “adult users like adults.” The scheduled plans for ChatGPT will allow “users to customize their AI assistant’s personality, including options for more human-like responses, heavy emoji use, or friend-like behavior,” per The Guardian. The…