Five years ago, the world changed because of the courage of a 17-year-old girl who recorded the murder of George Floyd. I spent several weeks in George Floyd Square in Minneapolis while covering the trial of the former police officer who killed Floyd, and while directing the documentary Bearing Witness: A Portrait of Darnella Frazier....
(Black PR Wire) WASHINGTON — The Congressional Black Caucus Foundation (CBCF) and Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, America’s Black think tank, published Forward Together: Black Policy Playbook for …
The hacker ecosystem in Russia, more than perhaps anywhere else in the world, has long blurred the lines between cybercrime, state-sponsored cyberwarfare, and espionage. Now an indictment of a group of Russian nationals and the takedown of their sprawling botnet offers the clearest example in years of how a single malware operation allegedly enabled hacking...
Marketers promote AI-assisted developer tools as workhorses that are essential for today’s software engineer. Developer platform GitLab, for instance, claims its Duo chatbot can “instantly generate a to-do list” that eliminates the burden of “wading through weeks of commits.” What these companies don’t say is that these tools are, by temperament if not default, easily...
The president threatened both Apple and the European Union with higher tariffs on Friday, saying trade talks with the Europeans had stalled.
Demis Hassabis, the chief executive of Google DeepMind, says that “we’re quite close” to human-level artificial intelligence. After that, all bets are off.
Apple has resisted pressure to make its most important product in the United States since 2016, and instead has moved some production to India.
On Tuesday, Google launched Veo 3, a new AI video synthesis model that can do something no major AI video generator has been able to do before: create a synchronized audio track. While from 2022 to 2024, we saw early steps in AI video generation, each video was silent and usually very short in duration....
Target Corporation has acknowledged a direct connection between its decision to scale back diversity, equity, and inclusion programs and a substantial decline in quarterly sales performance. The retail giant’s first-quarter results revealed a more than 7% drop in sales, which company leadership partially attributed to consumer backlash over changes to longstanding diversity initiatives. The Minneapolis-based...