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Planning to turn to a chatbot for advice? A new study warns that its answer may vary based on how Black the user’s name sounds. A recent paper from researchers at Stanford Law School found “significant disparities across names associated with race and gender” from chatbots . . .
This week saw an announcement from the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering. A new type of vaccine “has shown in the lab setting that it can completely reverse autoimmune diseases like multiple sclerosis and type 1 diabetes — all without shutting down the rest of the immune system.” A typical vaccine teaches […]
When you spend three days with 30,000 people who love cracking code, you’re always just one errant click away from sheep-dom. In fact, fending off the maze of Wi-Fi sniffers, hardware hackers and social engineers at DEF CON is a little like going toe-to-toe with elite, state-backed cyber spies, according to one senior . . […]
WASHINGTON, July 20 (Reuters) – The U.S. Army on Thursday expressed deep concern for how North Korea might treat Private Travis King and said Washington was fully mobilized in its efforts to reach out to Pyongyang, including by using United Nations communications channels. Army Secretary Christine Wormuth, in her first public comments on the case, […]
WASHINGTON, Oct 11 (Reuters) – Drivers using advanced driver assistance systems like Tesla (TSLA.O) Autopilot or General Motors (GM.N) Super Cruise often treat their vehicles as fully self-driving despite warnings . . .
The white suspect of a mass shooting near Chicago was taken into custody without police firing a single shot, while just a week earlier police fired about 90 rounds at a Black shooting suspect who was unarmed and running away from them. Jayland Walker fled a traffic stop and reportedly fired at least one shot […]
First Person is where Chalkbeat features personal essays by educators, students, parents, and others thinking and writing about public education. After clinging to the climbing ropes and losing to the stopwatch during a physical fitness test, I was devastated when my teacher told me I would “never amount to anything.” I was in second grade, […]
The United States and China jointly account for more than 40 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, putting these two nations at the center of efforts to address the climate crisis. Yet cooperation on climate policy between Washington and Beijing has stalled in recent years, reflecting a broader deterioration in the U.S.-China relationship. After decades […]
SOUTH BEND — Tucked between train tracks to the north and Western Avenue to the south, the LaSalle Park neighborhood on South Bend’s west side was for much of the 20th century one of a few places where people of color lived. The area known as The Lake became “the heart of African American life” in […]
CNN — A video showing police officers breaking up a fight between a Black teenager and a White teenager at a New Jersey mall has prompted outrage over the police response. New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy said Wednesday that the “appearance of what is . . .