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Timnit Gebru Is Building a Slow AI Movement

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Timnit Gebru was a well-known scholar in the AI ethics community long before she got fired by Google in December 2020—but that messy and dramatic incident brought a new level of attention to her work. One of our research fellows, Raesetje Sefala , is based in South Africa and grew up in a township. Timnit Gebru and Alex Hanna on.

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How Remote Sensing Technologies Increase Food Production

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The award is sponsored by Google. Her team’s research program included projects in Australia and Africa. The team also developed new algorithms for analysis of hyperspectral imagery, which provides detailed information across the electromagnetic spectrum to detect chemistry-based changes in vegetation.

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Europe/US team: transitioning to a low-carbon world will create new rivalries, winners and losers

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This scenario assumes a full global consensus for action on climate change. G20 countries build a generous Green Climate Fund, well above the $100-billion-a-year goal in the Paris climate agreement. Some don’t manage, and political tensions rise in sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia.

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Europe Expands Virtual Borders To Thwart Migrants

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In other words, European agencies are treating their direct contact with migrants as the problem, instead of treating the migrants’ precarious situations at sea or in North Africa as the problem. funded research project published the results of using Google search data to predict international migration. What the tech is up against.

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Nissan plans to start selling electric car in Seattle next year

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Gregg Small, executive director of environmental nonprofit Climate Solutions , said electric cars could be a big part of achieving energy independence and addressing climate change, if done in conjunction with energy conservation. "If Washington, D.C. Nissan plans to roll out the car in 12 to 15 markets next year, Perry said.

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