In July, St. Louis was still scrambling to raise $500,000 to buy machinery that would allow him to test the fabric used in masks. Meanwhile, he refers inquiries about mask testing to a company in Nevada—the lone private laboratory...
In the comments, some people were angrily insisting that they were not bots, and that their indignation was both human and sincere. Fair enough! But some of those people, and many others, were also in the comments accusing Ellen...
Companies are adapting their artificial intelligence products with the hope they can help schools reopen amid the pandemic. | George Frey/Getty Images This fall, AI could be watching students social distance and checking their masks. ...
OpenAI co-founder and chair Greg Brockman, OpenAI co-founder and CEO Sam Altman, and TechCrunch news editor Frederic Lardinois during TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco 2019. | Steve Jennings/Getty Images for TechCrunch Computers are getting closer to passing the...
Back in 2016, before Apple made it trendy, Motorola yanked the headphone jack from its phones. The following year was the last time it made a high-end Android phone. In 2020, it's hoping for a comeback. The Moto Edge...
The Chinese company Sinovac Biotech developed an experimental vaccine for SARS back in 2004. That disease went away after killing just 800 people, and the project was shelved. But it meant that when the new coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, exploded in...
As hard as it is for data scientists to tag data and develop accurate machine learning models, managing models in production can be even more daunting. Recognizing model drift, retraining models with updating data sets, improving performance, and maintaining...
Facebook is rolling out a voting information hub to try to register 4 million Americans to vote. | Salwan Georges/The Washington Post via Getty Images But the company still won’t fact-check President Trump’s misleading posts about voting...
<!-- --> Personal autonomy is each individual’s right to self-determination. This right recently went viral when a shopper at a Melbourne hardware store refused to wear a mask and was subsequently denied entry.
Personal autonomy reaches...
Aang, the hero of Avatar: The Last Airbender | Nickelodeon The beloved fantasy franchise has enjoyed a banner year on Netflix — until now. In a rare public fallout for Netflix, the creators of the platform’s...
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