To Break a Hate-Speech Algorithm, Try ‘Love’
Reported by WIRED: For all the advances being made in the field, artificial intelligence still struggles when it…
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The Woman Bringing Civility to Open Source Projects
Reported by WIRED: Coraline Ada Ehmke has been writing software professionally since 1994. For the past decade, she’s…
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What’s Left for Congress to Ask Big Tech Firms? A Lot
Reported by WIRED: Executives from Amazon, Apple, AT&T, Charter Communications, Google, and Twitter are heading to Washington Wednesday…
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Even If Rosenstein Stays, the Mueller Investigation Status Quo Won’t Last
Reported by WIRED: What was already setting up to be one of the biggest, most consequential weeks of…
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Google Is Getting a Lot More Visual to Keep You on Its Site
Reported by WIRED: Cobbling together a DIY dossier about a celebrity is a time-honored internet tradition. Scan a…
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Here’s the Plan to End Malaria With Crispr-Edited Mosquitoes
Reported by WIRED: In 2003, scientists at London’s Imperial College hatched a somewhat out-there idea. They wanted to…
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While You Were Offline: One of the Wettest Weeks From the Standpoint of Water
Reported by WIRED: In the midst of this exhausting week in the news, many questions have been asked…
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The Shopping Malls and Big Box Stores Gutted by E-Commerce
Reported by WIRED: Jesse Rieser’s memories of growing up in Springfield, Missouri in the 1990s unfold against a…
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#WhyIDidntReport and the Tragic Banality of Rape in America
Reported by WIRED: Professor Christine Blasey Ford was a teenager when she says Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh…
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How to Measure Things That Are Astronomically Far Away
Reported by WIRED: If you want to find the size of a basketball, you can use a normal…
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