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Mourning My Mom, One Red Carpet at a Time

For most of my adult life, every winter when awards season rolled around I would get primed and ready to have an epic night. Not because I was an Oscar-nominated ingénue about to walk the red carpet in Valentino couture and Bulgari earrings, but because my mom’s red carpet commentary …

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Google releases TyDi QA, a data set that aims to capture the uniqueness of languages

Google hopes to spur the development of AI capable of understanding the ways in which languages express different meanings. To this end, company researchers today detailed a data set — TyDi QA, a question-answering data set covering 11 languages — inspired by typological diversity, or the notion that different languages …

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Why Charging Your Phone While Traveling Is Risky

Photo by fizkes / Shutterstock.com Cellphones are a part of life, and it’s hard to imagine being without them — even when traveling. But every time you charge your phone or other device using a public USB power-charging station — such as those at an airport, hotel or other public …

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