“Orcs are human beings who can be slaughtered without conscience or apology.” This damning assessment of one of fantasy’s most ubiquitous villains comes from N. K. Jemisin, titan of modern fantasy and slayer of outdated genre tropes. As “kinda-sorta-people,”...
COVID-19 has accelerated the deployment of Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies. The past year also increased the risk of cyberattacks and exposed gaps in digital access. The Davos Agenda will highlight how we can continue to drive innovation...
They have also been indirect beneficiaries of the insurrection at the Capitol, with spikes in users as a result of the mainstream services’ deplatforming President Trump, his surrogates, and accounts promoting the QAnon conspiracy.In a few cases, public pressure...
Technology and digital innovation are increasingly becoming the hottest trends in healthcare. The hype is largely well justified, considering the significant strides the field has made in recent years.One of the most significant areas where technology has really made...
Picking a gaming mouse is a very personal endeavor. Everyone's hands are different, everyone's preferences and needs are different, and we all play different games. That's why we're lucky to live in the golden age of gaming mice, with...
When it was first detected, the South African variant looked worrisome because of the large number of mutations it had gained, 23 in all, and how many of these were in the critical spike protein, which the virus uses...
Then came war. On Tuesday, Citron Research founder Andrew Left, an activist investor and short seller, tweeted that he’d share five reasons why GameStop’s stock would plummet to $20 fast in an upcoming livestream. (The stock had by then...
The new technology-enabled “normal” has rapidly expanded the market for innovative business models. ... Here is a look at how five industries changed in the past year. Use the trend to evaluate startup opportunities. ...
Here are some of the best tips, tricks, and takeaways for R users from this year's rstudio::global(2021) virtual conference:Speed up your R codeThe new xrprof package builds on code profiling (performance measuring) offered by base R's Rprof() with these added...
I suspect we will see OSTP emphasize tech accountability under her leadership, which will be especially pertinent to hot button AI issues like facial recognition, algorithmic bias, data privacy, corporate influence on research, and the myriad of other issues...
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