‘Come As You Are:’ Nirvana Classics Reimagined With A Trans Twist
The late Kurt Cobain lives on in a new cover album featuring 13 Nirvana classics, but with a “House Techno” beat and the voice of a Black transgender woman among the vocals
Cricket’s ODI World Cup Set To Increase To 14 Teams In A ‘Compromise’
The International Cricket Council is set to increase the men’s 50-over World Cups post 2023 from 10 to 14 teams in a “compromise” amid widespread support amongst powerbrokers for even more countries to be part of the sport’s flagship tournament.
Tucker Carlson Says Vaccine-Related Deaths May Be Abnormally High — But Vaccines Haven't Been Linked To Deaths
The federal government’s database for reporting vaccine reactions allows anybody to file a report, and it could contain a lot of coincidences.
Zynga Buys Chartboost To Drive Online Ads, Reports Record Quarterly Revenue
Mobile game publisher Zynga is buying ad monetization platform Chartboost for $250 million. The company also reported record quarterly revenues and bookings, and raised guidance for the year by $100 million.
AEW Blood And Guts Results: Winners, News And Notes On May 5, 2021
AEW Blood and Guts featuring The Inner Circle vs. The Pinnacle.
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How to stop AI from recognizing your face in selfies
Uploading personal photos to the internet can feel like letting go. Who else will have access to them, what will they do with them—and which machine-learning algorithms will they help train? The company Clearview has already supplied US law enforcement agencies with a facial recognition tool trained on photos of millions of people scraped from…Why upholding Trump’s Facebook ban won’t break the cycle
The night before the Facebook Oversight Board decided to stand by the company’s decision to ban him from its platforms, former president Donald Trump announced—via an exclusive on Fox News—that he’d created a website. Called From the Desk of Donald Trump, it looked like a social media site but was really just a feed of…We reviewed three at-home covid tests. The results were mixed.
Over-the-counter home tests for covid-19 are finally here. MIT Technology Review obtained kits sold by three companies and tried them out. After buying tests from CVS and online, I tested myself several times and ended up learning an important lesson: while some people worry that home tests could miss covid cases, the bigger problem may…The internet is excluding Asian-Americans who don’t speak English
Jennifer Xiong spent her summer helping Hmong people in California register to vote in the US presidential election. The Hmong are an ethnic group that come from the mountains of China, Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand but don’t have a country of their own, and Xiong was a volunteer organizer at Hmong Innovating Politics, or HIP,…Machine-learning project takes aim at disinformation
There’s nothing new about conspiracy theories, disinformation, and untruths in politics. What is new is how quickly malicious actors can spread disinformation when the world is tightly connected across social networks and internet news sites. We can give up on the problem and rely on the platforms themselves to fact-check stories or posts and screen…Source: MIT Technology Review
Means pitches no-no, misses perfection with WP
Fist Period: Caps, Rangers fight right out of gate
La Russa admits not knowing extra-inning rule
Kyrie fined for 'repeated refusal' to talk to media
Rangers fire GM, prez; name Drury to both roles
Sources: Super League clubs facing long UCL ban
A&M's Fisher says he's confident in beating Saban
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