Nonprofit Digital Promise and the Edtech Equity Project have introduced Prioritizing Racial Equity in AI Design, a new ed tech product certification that takes aim at racial bias in AI-powered learning software.Read More
Signs of RSV and the flu include congestion, cough, and runny noses. Andrea Piacquadio/Pexels The US is seeing a spike in respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infections, and it’s taking a toll on pediatric hospitals. Beds at these medical centers are filling up, and the limited capacity has prompted drastic measures. Last week, Connecticut Children’s hospital…
3D shape across an almost complete skeleton in a group of land vertebrates. Guillermo Navalón The world’s 10,000 plus bird species are as ecologically and structurally complex as they are beautiful. The roots of all this diversity run deep, and likely began during a period of mass extinction 66 million years ago, after an asteroid…
Seems like there’s little room for surprises left in the industry, these days — and not just because of all the leaks. Like Google with its Pixel line, Nothing has moved away from the standard model of revealing products in one fell swoop. Instead, it’s taken to shaping its own news cycle through slow, official…
Did you know that Google isn’t the top search engine in South Korea? It’s not even a close second. Most Koreans actually prefer Naver for various reasons, and they like it so much that the search engine holds about 56% of the market, per Statista. Google is catching up, but it currently only has about…
Software supply chain quickly became a hot topic in the last few years, especially as the number of high-profile attacks increased and the White House got involved. Sigstore, an open source project supported by the likes of Google, GitHub, Chainguard and RedHat, has become somewhat of a standard for signing, verifying and protecting software projects…
Meta won’t be quaking at the size of the penalty it’s just been handed by Turkey’s competition authority, which announced a 346.72 million lira sanction today. The circa $18.6M fine pales in comparison to a number of recent stings hitting it from European regulators. Such as the $267M fine for WhatsApp in the European Union…
From home to tech products, here are the best deals of the day for Oct. 26: BEST HOME DEAL: Bissell CrossWave X7 Cordless Pet Pro Multi Floor Surface Wet Dry Vac — $344.99 $499.99 (save $155) BEST COMPUTER DEAL: Samsung Galaxy Book Flex2 Alpha 13.3-inch QLED Touch-Screen Laptop (16GB RAM, 512GB SSD) — $699.99 $1,049.99…
When it comes to where people get their news, TikTok continues to increase, while other social media sites like Reddit and Facebook are on the decline. A new survey from Pew Research Center surveyed American adults from a range of age groups about which social media sites they get their news from. TikTok and Instagram…
UPDATE: Oct. 26, 2022, 11:30 a.m. EDT This post has been updated to include the latest stock and pricing info for Walmart’s early Black Friday deals. Here are the best early Black Friday deals at Walmart that are currently live as of Oct. 26: BEST TV DEAL: Samsung 65-inch Class 4K Crystal UHD (2160P) LED…