He had no history of heart problems. He walked his dog regularly and worked a physically demanding job as a construction worker, according to his doctors. Then, in January 2019, he collapsed at a McDonald’s and died. The likely culprit? Black licorice, according to the doctors who treated him and …
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Automation and Jobs Read our latest special issue. Open Now Amazon applied science manager Dr. Nashlie Sephus has lived in New York City, Atlanta, Silicon Valley, and Seoul while pursuing her education and work in machine learning. She knows the look of a community that’s thriving from technology and innovation, …
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GamesBeat Summit Watch every session from the annual event On Demand Watch Now Dan Bunting of Treyarch and Dan Vondrak of Raven Software revealed the long-awaited Call of Duty: Black Ops — Cold War, a sequel to 2010’s Call of Duty: Black Ops. In a recent press briefing, the game …
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Calls for cost-effective agritech solutions are growing in Southeast Asia. In a report released by PwC, Rabobank and Temasek, it stated that the agriculture industry may be unable to keep up with Asia’s rapid urbanisation. At the same time, global warming and a worldwide pandemic has increased food insecurity. Singapore, …
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VB Transform Watch every session from the AI event of the year On-Demand Watch Now The racial wealth gap in the US is immense, and despite recent increased patronage of Black-owned businesses, that gap has actually expanded in recent years. There are many factors that have gone into creating this …
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Black children are more than three times as likely to die within a month of surgery as white children, according to a study published in the journal Pediatrics on Monday. Disparities in surgical outcomes between Black and white patients have been well established, with researchers attributing some of the difference …
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ITG loves a good unnecessary pairing—rom coms and treatments, masks and pasta dishes, cleansers and cookbooks—but today we’re flipping that concept on its head with some necessary reading, all by Black authors. No doubt you’ve seen the anti-racist reading lists circulating the internet, and while those mostly nonfiction works are …
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This week, as thousands of protestors marched in cities around the U.S. to bring attention to the death of George Floyd, police brutality, and abuses at the highest levels of government, members of the AI research community made their own small gestures of support. NeurIPS, one of the world’s largest …
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