The once oil-rich country lacks vaccines and performs few tests as Covid-19 rages, with some people choosing to die at home to avoid hospitals short of electricity and oxygen.

A team of undergraduates lead by a professor at Cold Spring Harbor demonstrated that many targeted drugs do not work as expected. Target discovery is the pharmaceutical industry's grand challenge.

Artificial intelligence ethics teams are playing a greater role at tech companies and helping them deal with bias and fairness issues that have cropped up at companies such as Twitter.

Computer algorithms that scan everything from terror watch lists to eviction records spit out flawed tenant screening reports. And almost nobody is watching

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Amid a hiring spree that boosted Amazon's headcount by 71%, the company in 2017 loosened its definition of "executive" to include hundreds of employees it had previously reported as mid-level managers, expanding its executive ranks by 1,600% in one year.

A video showing a mobile device snapping infrared images of an iPhone user is circulating around the internet and is catching many by surprise.

Several large corporations that have recently issued public statements supporting voting rights — including Google, Deloitte, and Citigroup — are also funding and collaborating with a top Republican group advocating for new voter suppression laws. Internal documents obtained by Popular Information and Documented reveal the corporations participated in a "policy working group" on "election integrity" with the Republican State Leadership Committee (RSLC), a party organization that is actively supporting new voter suppression bills. Participation in the roundtable required a minimum annual contribution of $15,000 to the RSLC.

"[T]his was a clear instance of corporate overreach," the employees wrote to management.

A California-based developer of a photo app has settled Federal Trade Commission allegations that it deceived consumers about its use of facial recognition technology and its retention of the photos and videos of users who deactivated their accounts.

Many real estate agents aren’t putting their sellers’ houses in the MLS system immediately.

Ana Brandusescu  (McGill University) Michael Canares (StepUp Consulting) Silvana Fumega (ILDA)   In June 2020, we had the opportunity to join a discussion on open contracting and inclusion organised by ...

The regulations would have far-reaching implications for tech firms like Amazon, Google, Facebook and Microsoft, which have poured resources into developing the technology.

Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) technology promise to revolutionize our approach to medicine, finance, business operations, media, and more.

It reportedly isn’t sure who to send the notifications to.

The allegations of misconduct and sexism within the Colorado Judicial Branch that prompted the state Supreme Court to authorize an independent investigation are emblematic of a larger cultural prob…

Colorado’s chief court administrator, the second-highest ranking administrative official in the state’s Judicial Department, resigned Thursday amid a Denver Post investigation into a $2.5 million c…