Less biased facial recognition? Microsoft touts improvement, IBM offering help
If a picture paints a thousand words, facial recognition paints two: It's biased.
Computer Sciences
Jun 29, 2018
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How evolution builds the most efficient airfoils
Swimming and flying animals are optimally adapted for cruising through their environments, producing thrust via propulsors—wings for birds and caudal fins for fish. Over millions of years, the morphology of these animals ...
Comcast deals with widespread outage
Comcast is dealing with a widespread outage of some of its services.
Telecom
Jun 29, 2018
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Polish stork vanishes from GPS but delivers huge phone bill
A Polish environmental group that was using a mobile-phone transmitter to track migratory movements of a stork has received a phone bill of 10,000 zlotys ($2,650) after the bird went missing in Sudan and someone started using ...
Ecology
Jun 29, 2018
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NASA infrared data reveals Tropical Storm Emilia is strengthening
Infrared NASA satellite imagery provided cloud top temperatures of thunderstorms that make up Tropical Storm Emilia. Comparing those NASA temperature readings with another satellite's data obtained the following day, forecasters ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 29, 2018
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NASA's GPM finds heavy rainfall on Tropical Storm Prapiroon's southwestern side
When the Global Precipitation Measurement mission or GPM core satellite passed over the Northwestern Pacific Ocean, it saw very heavy rainfall occurring in one part of Tropical Storm Prapiroon.
Earth Sciences
Jun 29, 2018
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Foxconn reaches agreement to open Green Bay office
Foxconn Technology Group announced Friday that it plans to open an office in Green Bay that will bring at least 200 high-tech jobs, a chance for the company to spread benefits and goodwill more widely amid doubts that the ...
Business
Jun 29, 2018
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NYC drivers for Uber, other apps to get vision care coverage
Drivers for car services and ride-hailing apps like Uber and Lyft are usually on their own when it comes to buying health insurance, but starting Sunday in New York they will now be able to get coverage for vision care as ...
Business
Jun 29, 2018
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Climate predictions should include impacts of CO2 on life
Climate change predictions are not taking account of the full range of possible effects of rising carbon dioxide levels, researchers say.
Environment
Jun 29, 2018
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Southern California's cliffs are on losing end of rising sea
It's not just beaches and sand that are disappearing as the ocean pushes inland. Sea level rise is also eating away at California's coastal cliffs.
Environment
Jun 29, 2018
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