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2020 was the year of the ‘net zero by 2050’ commitment. Will 2021 be the year we get the details?

The coronavirus pandemic overshadowed nearly everything in 2020, but alongside the pyrotechnics of an extraordinary U.S. election and the resurgence of social justice activism, at least one more big-picture issue came to the fore: this was the year the “net zero by 2050” climate commitment went mainstream. The promise to cut greenhouse gas emissions as […]

Here comes the GameStop rally, round 2

The rise of the retail investor blasts apart conventional wisdom when it comes to stock market valuation, as Tesla, GameStop, and other meme-friendlies show. Read More

The miseducation of A.I.: Systems trained using the internet can develop gender, race, and age bias, new study finds

A new report from Stanford University’s Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) unit found that A.I. systems being trained using the internet are inheriting and adapting the worst of it, including articles shared on Reddit. Read More