Timnit Gebru, the technical co-lead of the Ethical AI Team at Google, tweeted on Wednesday that the company fired her after refusing to accede to two demands. (more…)

In the mid-1900s, art historian Maurits Michel van Dantzig developed a system to identify artists by their brush or pen strokes, which he called Pictology. Dantzig found shape, length, direction, and pressure all contributed to a kind of stroke signature,... (more…)

The community’s hyperfocus on novel methods ignores what's really important. (more…)

Numerous research groups have helped in the quest to contain the pandemic. This piece reviews where these efforts have been realized as practical solutions. (more…)

Footage of potentially dangerous situations will be uploaded to the cloud. (more…)