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Reader Favorites: Black-Owned Beauty Brands

Last week, we shared 40 Black-owned beauty brands raved about in Top Shelves past, and then challenged you to share your favorites, too. And now we’re back, with 70 more Black founders to support while you upgrade your beauty routine. If your search for your Holy Grail has been unfruitful, …

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New benchmark measures gender bias in speech translation systems

A preprint paper published by University of Trento researchers proposes a benchmark — MuST-SHE — to evaluate whether speech translation systems fed textual data are constrained by the fact that sentences sometimes omit gender identity clues. It’s the assertion of the coauthors that these systems can and do exhibit gender …

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14 Ways to Keep Your Garden and Potted Plants Thriving

A couple of months ago, I shared an article on how to start a garden without a back yard, which included a general guide to gardening that works whether you happen to have backyard garden space or just a bit of room on a balcony or a windowsill. If you …

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