Business
The Finnish tech firm Metroc recently began using prison labor to train a large language model to improve artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For 1.54 euros an hour prisoners answer simple questions about snippets of ...
Nov 16, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
To meet the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit), nine major Asian economies must increase the share of electricity they get from renewable energy from the current 6% to at least ...
Nov 15, 2023
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Computer Sciences
Several years ago, MIT anthropologist Héctor Beltrán '07 attended an event in Mexico billed as the first all-women's hackathon in Latin America. But the programmers were not the only women there. When the time came for ...
Nov 14, 2023
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Consumer & Gadgets
To examine the global state of AI ethics, a team of researchers from Brazil performed a systematic review and meta-analysis of global guidelines for AI use. Publishing October 13 in in the journal Patterns, the researchers ...
Oct 13, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
Europe must invest more quickly and massively in its energy transition if it wants to remain a global industrial power, top policymakers warned on Friday.
Sep 29, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
A new Loughborough University study on clean energy accessibility in Africa forecasts that 1.1 billion people will be without eco-friendly cooking fuels or technologies by 2050.
Sep 25, 2023
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Business
A new report published today (20 September) from the JournalismAI initiative at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) surveyed more than 100 news organizations from 46 countries about their engagement ...
Sep 20, 2023
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Machine learning & AI
Developing countries risk missing out on important global climate action due to unreliable weather predictions resulting from biased data fed into artificial intelligence (AI) tools, researchers warn.
Aug 24, 2023
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Business
The climate crisis involves capital flows: according to the Paris Climate Agreement they must be made "consistent with a pathway toward low greenhouse gas emissions." But a new study shows that cross-border loans from public ...
Aug 2, 2023
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Consumer & Gadgets
Samsung Electronics on Wednesday unveiled two foldable smartphones as it continues to bet on devices with bending screens, a budding market that has yet to fully take off because of high prices.
Jul 26, 2023
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