The Spanish Observatory on Racism and Xenophobia reported a spike in hate posts on social media coinciding with the arrival of thousands of migrants from Morocco to the Autonomous City of Ceuta.Credit: Abu Adem Muhammed/Anadolu/Getty Is society losing the fight against hate speech? Hate speech — discourse that attacks a person or group on the
Ben Affleck plays a Brentwood businessman running for Los Angeles mayor in the new thriller “Animals.” The Oscar winner, who directed and co-wrote the film, is also a longtime political activist who has supported the presidential campaigns of Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Now, his “Animals” cast would like him to
Mathematician Tristan Buckmaster believes OpenAI used his work to rush ahead and beat him to solving a legendary math problem with a $1 million bounty. But that’s not been enough for him to stop using the company’s models—and he’s not the only mathematician that feels that way. “Even if you don’t agree with any of
I have similar feelings about the very large glass trackpad. For things like photo editing, the trackpad’s size is great, but I found my palms occasionally clicked the buttons at the bottom of the trackpad when I took a break from typing. It didn’t happen often, but I learned to be careful about where I
New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft has issued a statement defending his decision to create what amounts to a ban on rapper Macklemore performing in support of Ed Sheeran at a number of stadiums following the rapper’s comments regarding Palestine, which took place at concerts in New Jersey on Sept. 4 and 5. In his
Courtesy of Avid Reader Press, Simon & Schuster Ailsa Chang turned 50 this year. She planned her birthday party “with the intensity of a heat-seeking missile,” determined to prove to the world, and maybe to herself, that she was thrilled about the decade ahead. She still isn’t sure if that was genuine excitement or a
