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On 21 September OpenAI dropped Whisper, a speech recognition model trained on 680,000 hours of audio taken from the web. The highlight: it enables transcription in multiple languages, as well […]
By Keoni Mahelona, Gianna Leoni, Suzanne Duncan, Miles ThompsonSchmidt became CEO of Google in 2001, when the search engine had a few hundred employees and was barely making money. He stepped away from Alphabet in 2017 after building a sprawling, […]
By Will KnightLast week, the Chinese government under President Xi Jinping took steps to finally move away from its zero-COVID policy, following two weeks of protests in multiple cities. The unrest and […]
By Justin HendrixNSO Group’s business is founded on secrecy; it has refused to publicly identify its clients. In the statement, the company said it sells its software only to “legitimate government agencies” […]
By Ronan FarrowOpen the website of WorkIt Health, and the path to treatment starts with a simple intake form: Are you in danger of harming yourself or others? If not, what’s your […]
By Todd Feathers, Katie Palmer, Simon Fondrie-TeitlerThroughout my two decades in Silicon Valley, I have seen effective altruism (EA) – a movement consisting of an overwhelmingly white male group based largely out of Oxford University and […]
By Timnit GebruOverview: From the news stories we read to accessing information about our personal health, our everyday lives are shaped by technology. Indeed, technology creates new forms of positive connection and […]
Journalist Lam Thuy Vo examines how the demise of local news and the rise of neighborhood platforms may be contributing to the next moral panic over crime.
The evening the Derek Chauvin verdict was announced on April 19, 2021, a young, multiracial group of anti-gentrification protestors marched down Vanderbilt Avenue in brownstone Brooklyn. The surrounding neighborhood, like […]
Jordan Kraemer is a media anthropologist and ethnographer with expertise studying digital platforms, social inequalities, gender, and urban life. She currently leads tech policy research at ADL’s Center for Technology […]
Suppose you are a professor of pedagogy, and you assign an essay on learning styles. A student hands in an essay with the following opening paragraph: The construct of “learning […]
By Stephen Marche