Algorithms that govern face recognition are biasedCHANDAN KHANNA/AFP/Getty Images By Timothy Revell Face-recognition software can guess your gender with amazing accuracy – if you are a white man. Joy Buolamwini at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology tested three commercially available face-recognition systems, created by Microsoft, IBM and the Chinese company Megvii. […]
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Electrodes two millimetres apart trap a single atomDavid Nadlinger – University of Oxford By New Scientist staff and Press Association An image of a single atom of the metal strontium suspended in electric fields has won the 2018 Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council science photography competition. David Nadlinger‘s photo, […]
Call of Duty WW2 players will today be able to download patch 1.10 for the hit PS4, Xbox One and PC game – and the rollout for the big update has already began. Sledgehammer Games had previously said that Call of Duty WW2 would be getting its next big update […]
The Trump administration is thinking inside the box. President Donald Trump wants to drastically scale back food stamps and replace them with a “food box” delivery program — like Blue Apron. Mick Mulvaney, director of the Office of Management and Budget, told reporters on Monday about the plan by the […]
Anti-ageing skincare testingMartin Leissl/Bloomberg via Getty By Lara Williams Is the science behind skincare vacuous and deserving of criticism? Are women who take an interest in it falling for unfounded claims? Last week, online magazine The Outline generated a flurry of responses and disgruntled social media posts with its article […]
Princess Margaret, who died at the age of 71, was the sister of Queen Elizabeth II, and was once engaged to Peter Townsend. The romance began in 1947 during the royal tour of South Africa, when Peter was appointed Comptroller of the Household for the Queen Mother. However, the romance […]
Scientists have reprogrammed ordinary cells called fibroblasts into new and healthy heart muscle cells, and recorded changes that appear to be necessary for this reprogramming.
Scientists have for the first time captured the sounds of snapping shrimp off the Oregon coast and think the loud crackling from the snapping of their claws may serve as a dinner bell for eastern Pacific gray whales.