Jennifer Daniel chairs the Unicode Consortium’s emoji subcommittee, which decides which new emojis to add every year. Read More
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Why corporate use of A.I. flatlined in 2020
Companies did not spend more time and money on their A.I. projects in 2020, likely due to COVID-19. Read More
Taiwanese baseball sets a new high bar for pregame antics tightrope walker
At this time last year, Taiwanese baseball was just about the only live sports happening on the planet, and as enjoyable as it was to see something that felt close to normal during the chaos of the early stages of the pandemic, the Chinese Professional Baseball League has receded to lesser global prominence now that… […]
The largest independent self-driving startup is under a lot of pressure
Enlarge / Chris Urmson speaks onstage during the 2019 SXSW Conference on March 9, 2019 in Austin. (credit: Samantha Burkardt/Getty Images for SXSW) Few people have been working on self-driving cars longer than Chris Urmson. Urmson played a key role on Carnegie Mellon’s team in all three of DARPA’s famous Grand Challenges between 2004 and […]
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Track coach allegedly stole ‘compromising photos’ from athletes, used pix to scam them out of more
Steve Waithe, a former assistant track and field coach at Tennessee and Northeastern, was arrested Wednesday in Chicago on federal charges of cyberstalking and wire fraud, stemming from an alleged scheme that’s equal parts stupid and gross. Read more…
Track coach allegedly stole ‘compromising photos’ from athletes, ransomed them back anonymously
Steve Waithe, a former assistant track and field coach at Tennessee and Northeastern, was arrested Wednesday in Chicago on federal charges of cyberstalking and wire fraud, stemming from an alleged scheme that’s equal parts stupid and gross. Read more…