What is mitochondrial donation and why is it called 'three-person IVF'?
Researchers in the United Kingdom have announced the successful birth of eight babies after a clinical trial of an IVF technique known as mitochondrial donation.
ScaleFactor Raised $100 Million In A Year Then Blamed Covid-19 For Its Demise. Employees Say It Had Much Bigger Problems.
Kurt Rathmann told his big-name investors he had developed groundbreaking AI to do the books for small businesses. In reality, humans did most of the work.
Las Vegas Cops Used ‘Unsuitable’ Facial Recognition Photos To Make Arrests
Records obtained by Motherboard show the police department used sub-par images in almost half of its facial recognition searches, increasing the chance of misidentifying suspects.
iTWire - How a Google search could end up endangering a life
A Google search summary of measures to be carried out after a seizure left out the words "do not", resulting in instructions that could well kill a person. Soft Linden, the director of informa...
MTA’s Initial Foray Into Facial Recognition at High Speed Is a Bust
First attempts last year to record and identify faces of drivers as they zip along the highway at the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge have failed, according to an internal Metropolitan Transportation Auth…
Facebook cracks down on discussing 'hoes' in gardening group
Facebook's censors are digging deep -- flagging the word "hoe" in a western New York gardening group because they apparently confused the tool for a disparaging term for women.
The student and the algorithm: how the exam results fiasco threatened one pupil’s future
The long read: Josiah Elleston-Burrell had done everything to make his dream of studying architecture a reality. But, suddenly, in the summer of 2020, he found his fate was no longer in his hands
Access Denied: Faulty Automated Background Checks Freeze Out Renters – The Markup
Computer algorithms that scan everything from terror watch lists to eviction records spit out flawed tenant screening reports. And almost nobody is watching
A New Kind of AI Model Lets Data Owners Take Control
A novel approach from the Allen Institute for AI enables data to be removed from an artificial intelligence model even after it has already been used for training.
Fed up with ChatGPT, Latin America is building its own
Dozens of organizations in the region have partnered to develop a large language model that better understands Latin America’s cultural and linguistic nuances.
Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using...
This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and Brain-only (no tools). Each completed...
Microsoft researchers introduce MatterGen, a model that can discover new materials tailored to specific needs—like efficient solar cells or CO2 recycling—advancing progress beyond trial-and-error experiments.