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Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Federal immigration minister Marc Miller recently announced the government is implementing a two-year cap on the number of international students admitted into Canada. This comes amid the government's broader changes to the immigration system to streamline the types of people who can settle in Canada. Last year,…

Drivers for Uber Technologies, Lyft and delivery workers for DoorDash were staging a strike on Wednesday, seeking fair pay and better treatment.Workers say the rideshare and food delivery platforms are taking disproportionate sums from their fares as fees, hurting their earnings. The protest comes just as Uber, the largest ride-share company, saw its shares hit a record high after announcing a $7 billion share buyback.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering CollegeCourseWebsiteMITMIT Technology…

Ed Newton-Rex had reached a breaking point. As the vice president of audio at Stability AI, the 36-year-old was at the vanguard of a revolution in computational creativity. But there was growing unease about the movement’s strategy. Stability was becoming an emerging powerhouse in generative AI. The London-based startup owns Stability Diffusion, one of the world’s most popular image generators. It also recently expanded into music generators with the September launch of Stable Audio — a tool…

Rationing is a system of controlled distribution of limited resources, goods, or services during a time of shortage or emergency. It is usually implemented by governments during war or economic crises to ensure that essential goods and services are fairly distributed among the population.According to new research from the University of Leeds, adopting a World War II-style rationing system could be a viable solution in reducing carbon emissions.Academics have presented their argument in a paper published in the journal…

Tesla is launching today its Safety Score 2.0, a new version of its driver scoring system to attempt to make it fairer as it influences insurance costs. When launching its own car insurance product, Tesla utilized its capacity to collect real-time driving data from its vehicles to create what it calls a “Safety Score,” which basically gives drivers a score based on how and when they drive in order to affect their monthly premium negatively or positively. The score would be affected by…

Good morning. I’m Paul Thornton, and it is Saturday, Jan. 14, 2023. Happy new year to readers who use the Julian calendar. Let’s look back at the week in Opinion.Way back in the spring of 2020, The Times’ opinion journalists asked readers to tell us what permanent changes they wanted to see in California brought on by the nascent COVID-19 pandemic. That was about two months after the initial round of restrictions went into force, and at the time there was already plenty of agitation to declare our mitigation measures a…

Study 1 by gender. Pay chosen by manager’s gender (in euro) in Baseline vs. Self (male vs. female manager, diff-in-diff, p = 0.027**, one-sided t-test, n = 114). Credit: PLOS ONE (2022). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0271762 There are two levels of reference for the elementary question of an appropriate remuneration of work: the markets and the needs of the employees. A study recently published in PLOS ONE by researchers at the…

Amazon is making some significant commitments in an attempt to escape EU fines for allegedly misusing seller data. The European Commission is asking for public feedback on Amazon proposals that theoretically give third-party sellers a better chance of competing with Amazon's direct sales. The company has pledged to avoid using private seller data in situations where there's competition with Marketplace shops, whether it's obtained through automated tools or employee access. The firm has also promised…

The small fishing settlement of Puerto Edén is nestled on Wellington Island in southern Chile, among a labyrinth of islets and fjords at least a day’s journey from the nearest city. But the distance and Patagonian cold have not discouraged generations of scientists from making the trip. Puerto Edén is home to some of the Kawésqar, descendants of nomadic seafarers. Their culture, territory, the remains of their ancestors, and their dying language have all drawn academic interest.…

by Carly Steele, Graeme Gower, Rhonda Oliver and Sender Dovchin, The Conversation Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain In the title we quote Michelle Martin (with her permission), who is a proud Kija woman and passionate educator. She…