The 2021 digital toolkit – How small businesses are taking charge Learn how small businesses are improving customer experience, accelerating quote-to-cash, and increasing security. Register Now Technologies like artificial intelligence and human genome editing “reveal and reflect even more about the complex and sometimes dangerous social architecture that lies beneath …
Read More »Columbia researchers find white men are the worst at reducing AI bias
When it comes to customer expectations, the pandemic has changed everything Learn how to accelerate customer service, optimize costs, and improve self-service in a digital-first world. Register here Bias in AI is pervasive. From dermatological models that discriminate against patients with dark skin to exam-scoring algorithms that disadvantage public school …
Read More »What to Know About Sean Conley, the White House Physician
As President Trump remains hospitalized at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center after testing positive for the coronavirus, one doctor is at the center of his treatment: Sean P. Conley, the White House physician. Stepping out of the hospital with a team of doctors behind him on Saturday, Dr. Conley …
Read More »Covid-19 Live Updates: Top White House Official Denies Pressuring F.D.A. on Vaccine Guidelines
A volunteer taking a vaccine as part of a study in Hollywood, Fla., on Thursday.Credit…Marco Bello/Reuters A top Trump official dismisses a report that he pushed the F.D.A. to soften new vaccine guidelines. The White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows, dismissed reports that he had pressured the Food and …
Read More »Trump Holds Indoor Rally as White House Officials Try to Defend His Virus Response
This briefing has ended. Read live coronavirus updates here. Here’s what you need to know: Thousands attend a Trump rally indoors as others ask why he played down the virus threat. Scientists are alarmed by companies’ secrecy around vaccine clinical trials. A refugee camp in Greece on virus lockdown was …
Read More »Covid-19 Live Updates: The White House, Under Fire for Discouraging Testing, Says It Will Buy Millions of Test Kits
Here’s what you need to know: The White House announces a major virus test-kit deal, just days after the C.D.C. moved to discourage testing. Trump promises a coronavirus vaccine by the end of the year, and boasts of his pandemic response. Hurricane Laura and the virus collide in Louisiana and …
Read More »ByteDance and Microsoft offer White House a deal to keep TikTok in the U.S.
VB Transform Watch every session from the AI event of the year On-Demand Watch Now (Reuters) — China’s ByteDance has agreed to divest the U.S. operations of TikTok completely in a bid to save a deal with the White House, after President Donald Trump said on Friday he had decided …
Read More »Black Children Are More Likely to Die After Surgery Than White Peers, Study Shows
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 …
Read More »Trump Hosts July 4 Event at White House as U.S. Coronavirus Cases Soar
This briefing has ended. Click here for the latest updates. Here’s what you need to know: At his D.C. holiday celebration, Trump declares ‘a lot of progress’ against the virus. The numbers say otherwise. As Houston’s hospitals near capacity, they feel the echoes of New York City. Local governments in …
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