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Elon Musk is seeking to have a coming securities-fraud trial involving his conduct running Tesla Inc. TSLA 2.47% moved out of San Francisco, arguing that negative publicity surrounding his use and recent management of Twitter has biased local jurors against him. San Francisco’s jury pool has been “exposed to excessive and adverse pretrial publicity concerning Defendant Elon Musk that will deprive him of…

Elon Musk has said if required he will make an alternative phone to Apple and Google. Know why. Elon Musk, the new CEO of the social media platform Twitter has said that he can make an alternative smartphone to the Apple iPhone and Google Pixel. Replying to a Twitter user Liz Wheeler (@Liz_Wheeler), host of The Liz Wheeler Show, Musk has said the same when asked if Apple and Google boot Twitter from their app stores will he produce his own smartphone. Wheeler took to her Twitter account saying. "If Apple &…

The success of cloud tech in India offers a huge opportunity for Indian women in tech. By Navanwita Bora Sachdev, a freelance contributor and the Editor of The Tech Panda.The success of cloud tech in India offers a huge opportunity for Indian women in tech. The cloud computing skills shortage is ensuring a gender diverse cloud workforce in India, but when it comes to investing in women led cloud organisations, challenges remain. Cloud technology is one of the greatest enablers today in the Indian business sector, with…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A new report published in the journal Scientific Reports sheds light on the current state of democracy in the United States. The research by a…

AdaSampling comes to the rescueLeaving the world of Kaggle and entering the Real World, a data scientist is frequently (read: always) faced with the problem of dirty data. Besides missing values, different units, duplicates, and whatsoever, a rather common challenge for classification tasks is the noise in data labels. And while some noise problems can be cleaned up by the analyst, others are inherently noisy or imprecise by nature.Consider the following task: predict whether a particular protein binds to a certain DNA…

Crime prediction techniques have often been under scrutiny because they lack objectivity by virtue of ingrained biases Artificial intelligence is gradually catching up with advanced policing, pricking the interests of Governments. Who wouldn’t want to have policing tools in their armor for the rate of crime is only seeing an uptick with every passing day? Crime prediction techniques have often been under scrutiny because they lack objectivity by virtue of ingrained biases. Given the facets and subjectivity…

The federal government said May 12 that artificial intelligence technology to screen new job candidates or monitor worker productivity can unfairly discriminate against people with disabilities, sending a warning to employers that the commonly used hiring tools could violate civil rights laws. The U.S. Justice Department and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission jointly issued guidance to employers to take care before using popular algorithmic tools meant to streamline the work of evaluating employees and job…

A version of this story appeared in Science, Vol 376, Issue 6594.Download PDF In February 2021, cognitive psychologist Itiel Dror set off a firestorm in the forensics community. In a paper, he suggested forensic pathologists were more likely to pronounce a child’s death a murder versus an accident if the victim was Black and brought to the hospital by the mother’s boyfriend than if they were white and brought in by the grandmother. It was the latest of…

The foreman of the jury that found Kim Kardashian, her mom Kris Jenner and sisters Kylie and Khloé owed no damages to Blac Chyna for alleged defamation and contract interference says he believes the judge who handled the highly scrutinized case may have been a little “aggressive” with Chyna’s lawyer at times, but overall “it was a fair trial.” Rajiv Ghosh, 35, tells Rolling Stone that the jury panel was successfully insulated from the behind-the-scenes drama and complaints that form the basis of a failed effort by Chyna’s…