“DeepMind’s stunning victories over Go legend Lee Se-dol have stoked excitement over artificial intelligence’s potential more than any event in recent memory. But the Google subsidiary’s AlphaGo program is far from its only project — it’s not even the main one.”
Read: DeepMind founder Demis Hassabis on how AI will shape the future
“New York City’s specialized public high schools—Stuyvesant, Brooklyn Technical, the Bronx High School of Science and the rest—are the most coveted and competitive schools in the country’s most segregated school system.”
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“Facebook depends on increasingly sophisticated ad targeting to make money, so it’s unsurprising to learn that Facebook’s new “reactions” feature will benefit advertisers in a variety of ways.”
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“Brace yourself. I’m going to talk about a topic that makes many people uncomfortable — Whiteness. Not the more acceptable euphemism “diversity.” Not even its close cousin, the difficult subject of “racism.” No.”
“Scarlet Witch may be appearing in Captain America: Civil War on May 6th, but for some reason the new Avengers superhero is absent from the latest toy lineup.”
Read: Disney leaves Scarlet Witch out of the new Avengers toy set
“The American media, over the past year, has been trying to work out something of a mystery: Why is the Republican electorate supporting a far-right, orange-toned populist with no real political experience, who espouses extreme and often bizarre views? How has Donald Trump, seemingly out of no”
“Blind by Design is a series focused on addressing systemic biases within design. Join us. Men dominate the design industry. I took a look at 27 design and engineering consulting firms with public information about their teams. Here’s what I found:”
“On Friday afternoon, media reports emerged about my friend Melissa Harris-Perry’s refusal to host her eponymous weekend program on MSNBC on Saturday. I was one of the original producers on the show when it launched in 2012, leaving for another job in 2015. Dr.”
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“Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg had to scold his staff after discovering that unidentified employees recently crossed out Black Lives Matter and replaced it with “all lives matter” on the walls at Facebook headquarters — multiple times.”
Read: Mark Zuckerberg memo tells employees to stop crossing out Black Lives Matter on company walls
“Have you committed any acts of terrorism? Do you have ties to ISIS or al Qaeda or any other terrorist organizations?”
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