The Portland Fire announced on Tuesday that they have named Ashley Battle as Vice President of Basketball Operations, Strategy, and Innovation. Photo Credit: Portland Fire She will oversee basketball operations, including building the Fire’s roster and finding talent, while applying innovative strategies across player performance and analytics. “It’s exciting to be part of a franchise...
“ChatGPT shouldn’t have political bias in any direction.” That’s OpenAI’s stated goal in a new research paper released Thursday about measuring and reducing political bias in its AI models. The company says that “people use ChatGPT as a tool to learn and explore ideas” and argues “that only works if they trust ChatGPT to be...
Federal prosecutors have seized $15 billion from the alleged kingpin of an operation that used imprisoned laborers to trick unsuspecting people into making investments in phony funds, often after spending months faking romantic relationships with the victims. Such “pig butchering” scams have operated for years. They typically work when members of the operation initiate conversations...
On Tuesday, Nvidia announced it will begin taking orders for the DGX Spark, a $4,000 desktop AI computer that wraps one petaflop of computing performance and 128GB of unified memory into a form factor small enough to sit on a desk. Its biggest selling point is likely its large integrated memory that can run larger...
Growing up Afro-Latina and limb-different, sitting volleyball player Nicole “Nicky” Nieves was keenly aware of the qualities that set her apart. Nieves, the daughter of Puerto Rican parents, was born without a left hand, yet it didn’t deter her love for sports at a young age. She navigated childhood with the support of her friends...
Five of the WNBA’s 15 teams are seeking new head coaches as a turbulent offseason prepares to get underway. As the Las Vegas Aces celebrate the jackpot of another championship in Sin City, several of their WNBA sisters are seeking new pit bosses. (Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty Images) The coaching carousel set to spin this...
Drawn by local talent, cheap labor and state cash incentives, start-ups building the weapons of the future are revitalizing manufacturing in once-vibrant industrial towns.
Android devices are vulnerable to a new attack that can covertly steal 2FA codes, location timelines, and other private data in less than 30 seconds. The new attack, named Pixnapping by the team of academic researchers who devised it, requires a victim to first install a malicious app on an Android phone or tablet. The...
The encryption protecting communications against criminal and nation-state snooping is under threat. As private industry and governments get closer to building useful quantum computers, the algorithms protecting Bitcoin wallets, encrypted web visits, and other sensitive secrets will be useless. No one doubts the day will come, but as the now-common joke in cryptography circles observes,...