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The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is examining the nature of Microsoft's investment in ChatGPT maker OpenAI, and whether it may violate antitrust laws, Bloomberg News reported on Friday, citing a person familiar with the matter. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is examining the nature of Microsoft's investment in ChatGPT maker OpenAI, and whether it may violate antitrust laws, Bloomberg News reported on Friday, citing a person familiar with the matter. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here…

A 1938 Romer Map of Colonial Africa highlights Germany’s desire to regain its African colonies. Credit: New York Sunday News, May 1, 1938 While Germany's 1939 invasion of Poland marks the official start of World War II, one of the major on-ramps to war was the Italian invasion of Ethiopia four years earlier. "This introduced fascism's threat to…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Vocal fry has a bad reputation in American English. A subtype of creaky voice, a feature of speech that sounds gravelly and pulse-like, this manner of speech is sometimes used to form judgment about the speaker. In many languages, the creaky tone changes the meaning of words, as exhibited in Lango spoken in South Sudan or Jalapa Mazatec spoken in Mexico. …

There are many sources of bias in machine learning. Those rooted in the truths that the data represents, such as systemic and structural ones, lead to prejudice bias in the data. There are also biases rooted in the data, such as sample, exclusion, association, and measurement biases. Lastly, there are biases in the insights we derive from data or models we have to be careful with, such as conservatism bias, salience bias, and fundamental attribution error. This section is an excerpt from my recent book, Interpretable…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Gender stereotypes harm people of both genders—and society more broadly—by steering and sometimes limiting people to behaviors, roles, and activities linked with their gender. Widely shared stereotypes include the assumption that men are more central to professional life while women are more central to domestic life. Other stereotypes link men with math and science and women with arts and liberal…

The keep from the southeast. Questenberg, Lkr. Mansfeld-Südharz. Credit: Felix Biermann, State Office for Heritage Management and Archaeology Saxony-Anhalt. Jahresschrift für mitteldeutsche Vorgeschichte (2023). DOI: 10.11588/jsmv.2023.1.100718 Castles served to enforce law and order during the Middle Ages and the early modern era. Often, they had facilities to hold people captive. The Questenburg near Sangerhausen…

Antarctica Scientific Expedition in 2019. Credit: Shuanglin LI The precipitation in West Antarctica, especially around the Antarctic Peninsula, exhibits large variability on the interannual time scale. In recent years, scientific research activities, tourism and fisheries have been experiencing remarkable growth there. Thus, understanding the variability of precipitation in West Antarctica, including the Antarctic Peninsula,…

Illustration of Assumption 2 (Single Crossing). Credit: International Economic Review (2022). DOI: 10.1111/iere.12592 Recently, Cai Xiaoming, associate professor at Peking University HSBC Business School (PHBS), published a collaborative paper titled "Meetings and Mechanisms" in the International Economic Review. The paper delves into the potential impact of companies' improved ability to select job candidates on the overall…

Ancient burial mounds (kurgans) provide the last refugia for steppic plant and animal species in the intensively used agricultural landscapes of the western parts of the Eurasian steppe biome. Credit: Balázs Deák / Centre for Ecological Research During our history, ancient civilizations have considerably shaped the global ecosystems through a coevolution of landscape and local populations. In some cases, the legacy of the…

Too Long; Didn't ReadAn experienced Unity developer explains the architecture of Unity game development projects. The best architecture is the one that does not exist and combines different approaches in a convenient and efficient style for the team. Unity's implementation of MonoBehaviour-based COP doesn't look ideal. Singleton is an object contained in the scene or the entire project in a single instance. Too Long; Didn't ReadAn experienced Unity developer explains the architecture of Unity game development projects.…