(CNN) Global sea levels could rise more than two meters (6.6 feet) by the end of this century if emissions continue unchecked, swamping major cities such as New York and Shanghai and displacing up to 187 million people, a new study warns. The…
The UK's social safety net has been 'deliberately removed and replaced with a harsh and uncaring ethos', a report commissioned by the UN has said. Special rapporteur on extreme poverty Philip Alston said 'ideological' cuts to public services since…
Abstract: Several recent works have shown how highly realistic human head images can be obtained by training convolutional neural networks to generate them. In order to create a personalized talking head model, these works require training on a…
The New York Times
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Farhad Manjoo
– May 22, 12:00 PM
To live in California at this time is to experience every day the cryptic phrase that George W. Bush once used to describe the invasion of Iraq: “Catastrophic success.” The economy here is booming, but no one feels especially good…
At Amazon's shareholder meeting today, employees and investors voted on a wide-ranging spate of proposals, from banning the practice of selling facial recognition technology to adopting a serious plan to address climate change. Each of the…
