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DENVER (AP) — Artificial intelligence is helping decide which Americans get the job interview, the apartment, even medical care, but the first major proposals to reign in bias in AI decision making are facing headwinds from every direction.Lawmakers working on these bills, in states including Colorado, Connecticut and Texas, came together Thursday to argue the case for their proposals as civil rights-oriented groups and the industry play tug-of-war with core components of the legislation.“Every bill we run is going to end the world as we know it. That’s a common thread you hear when you run policies,” Colorado’s Democratic Senate…
Aston Villa are the only English team in this season’s European semi-finals [BBC]For only the third time in the 21st century, England has no teams in the semi-finals of the Champions League or Europa League – so what has gone wrong?Manchester City and Arsenal both exited the Champions League quarter-finals on Wednesday, going out to Real Madrid and Bayern Munich respectively.And on Thursday, as expected, Liverpool and West Ham crashed out of the Europa League – after failing to overturn first-leg deficits against Atalanta and Bayer Leverkusen.The only English team left in Europe are Aston Villa, who beat Lille on…
The vast variety of online platforms, combined with cutting edge technology such as AI, remove … [+] virtually all barriers to making a solid incomegetty Your bills are soaring. You can’t keep up with rent payment or mortgage rates. The prices for gas and everyday living items are so ridiculously high, it’s virtually impossible to keep your head above water on your limited salary. In 2024, one thing is clear: when it comes to making money, time is of the essence. This is why many people turn to “quick-fix” solutions, such as side hustles and passive income ideas that can…
At the end of February a reader who we will call Joan was on Facebook and came across an article that looked like it had come from a reputable Irish news source highlighting how a reputable Irish television personality had made a serious amount of money following a judiciously placed investment in cryptocurrency.The article was peppered with quotes from other well-known Irish celebrities who had also made a lot of cash in crypto.You probably know where this is going, right?But Joan didn’t.“There was a link in the content and I clicked on the link and signed up to receive a…
Image Credits: VendeluxIn-person events are back, baby, and Vendelux’s AI-powered event intelligence platform tells event marketers which important people will be at which event. The company was started by two former Shutterstock executives, Alex Reynolds and Stefan Deeran. They wanted to provide event marketers and chief marketing officers with a way to see which events customers and competitors would be at so they could make better decisions about what to attend or sponsor. Using artificial intelligence and predictive modeling, Vendelux offers 65 million data points on over 160,000 global events, tradeshows and conferences, Reynolds told TechCrunch. We reported on Vendelux’s…
Liam Ronan-Chlond (L) and Daniel May (R) from Socius Employees from land developer Socius have donned their running shoes to raise money for The Institute of Cancer Research – as members of our 2024 London Marathon team. Socius’ Head of Engagement Liam Ronan-Chlond and Development Director Daniel May are taking on the iconic course as one of a series of challenges by teams from Socius and colleagues from insurer Aviva. Socius and Aviva staff are fundraising for the ICR after the companies joined the partnership at The London Cancer Hub in Sutton, south London, which is aiming to make Sutton…
Google has announced the completion of its spam update rollout, which began on March 5, alongside a core update. The spam update, which took approximately two weeks to deploy fully, targeted scaled content production, expired domain misuse, and authority abuse. The core update, which incorporates the “Helpful Content” evaluation into the core algorithm, is still ongoing and is expected to take around four total weeks to complete. Spam Update Rollout Completed On March 20 at 6:09 PDT, Google confirmed that the spam update rollout had concluded. The announcement came via an update to Google’s Search Status Dashboard. With this update,…
Over the past two decades in the news industry, we’ve witnessed shrinking newsrooms, mass redundancies and the steady decline of regional news on a global scale. With fewer opportunities for steady employment in this undeniably bleak landscape, freelancing is becoming the new normal for prospective journalists.Squarely in the remit of the digital gig economy, freelancers can expect to “rise and grind” in this new reality. Some may publish their own content using new monetisation platforms like Patreon and Substack, while also hustling for more traditional commissions from the established national and trade press.This is a massive social, cultural and economic…
During its new earbuds announcement event, Nothing shared that it plans to add Chat-GPT support to its earbuds. The feature will be tied to Nothing Phones, so users with iPhones or other Android handsets will be stuck using Siri or Google Assistant instead. If you want to take advantage of Open AI’s assistant, you’ll need to wait. A Nothing spokesperson told The Verge that the feature will roll out slowly to the Nothing Phone (2) starting on April 18th, followed by the Phone (1) and Phone (2a) a few weeks later. The company’s blog post also states that this is…
