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Jessica Berman, commissioner of the National Women’s Soccer League, speaks during a panel on women's professional soccer at the Hilton Anatole in Dallas on Feb. 10, 2024.Omar Vega | Getty Images Sport | Getty ImagesAt 16 years old, Jessica Berman was one of those rare teenagers who knew exactly what she wanted to do in life: lead a professional sports league.Nearly 30 years later, the New York City native has not only achieved her dream — becoming the commissioner of the National Women's Soccer League in 2022 — but she's…

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Photo: Samuel Corum (AP)U.S.government efforts to ban TikTok over national security grounds, once considered a pie-in-the-sky pipe dream, are looking more and more likely by the week, especially after Congress browbeat TikTok’s CEO for five hours last week. That said, we’ve been here before. Various players in the federal government have attempted to ban TikTok before, all unsuccessfully. In just three short months, at least four new bills have reached the House and Senate demanding, in various forms, a national ban of…

Photo: Cindy Ord (Getty Images)A fast-tracked, vague Republican bill granting the Biden administration the ability to impose a nationwide TikTok ban moved a step closer toward legality on Tuesday after passing a vote in the House Foreign Affairs Committee. The sweeping new legislation, if passed into law, would grant the Biden administration the ability to totally ban TikTok or other foreign software companies believed to be involved in the transfer of “sensitive data.” Critics, including the American Civil Liberties…

WASHINGTON—As lawmakers push to ban or restrict Chinese-owned TikTok, one of the many hurdles they face is a pair of measures passed by Congress decades ago to let films, books and music flow freely between the U.S. and hostile foreign countries.The measures, known as the Berman amendments, date to the last years of the Cold War. They took away the president’s authority to regulate or ban imports of “informational materials” from adversarial nations such as Cuba, and shielded those who produced such works—and their U.S.…

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy.Photo: Francis Chung/POLITICO (AP)Axios reported Friday that House Republicans will launch a probe into environmental NGOs based on a right-wing rumor that foreign powers, including China and Russia, are using nonprofit green groups to influence U.S. policy. That unsubstantiated rumor has been pushed for years by a PR firm employed by the fossil fuel industry to run astroturf campaigns that attack members of the environmental movement. In a blog post posted earlier this month, House…

Prioritize labeling of cell imaging samples based on the prospective impact of their label on the model’s performance.Adi Nissim, Noam Siegel, Nimrod BermanOne of the main obstacles standing in front of many machine learning tasks is the lack of labeled data. Labeling data might be exhausting and expensive. Thus, many times it is not reasonable to even try to solve a problem using machine learning methods due to lack of labels.To alleviate this problem, a field in machine learning has emerged, called Active Learning.…