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Using bigger AI training data sets may produce more racist results

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Using bigger AI training data sets may produce more racist results

Contrary to Silicon Valley wisdom, training AIs on larger data sets could worsen their tendency to replicate societal biases and racist stereotypes

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Space

Stars found hidden in huge cloud wrapped around the Milky Way

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Distributing AI projects across multiple data centres could make them more environment-friendly

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Shifting where data is processed for AI can reduce environmental harm

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Life

Bone disease in sabre-toothed tigers may be a sign of inbreeding

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Three distant quasars have bubbles of ionised gas around them

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'Superbubbles' of gas around quasars may form thanks to powerful winds

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An Anopheles mosquito, which can transmit malaria parasites, including Plasmodium vivax

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Malaria vaccine shows promise against relapsing form of the disease

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Mandatory Credit: Photo by EPA-EFE/Shutterstock (13842171a) Packages of prescribtion drugs Ozempic and Wegovy by Novo Nordisk sit on a table in Copenhagen, Denmark, 23 March 2023. US celebrities have credited their weight loss to the FDA-approved medications that are prescribed to treat Type 2 diabetes. Diabetes drugs used as slimming agent, Copenhagen, Denmark - 23 Mar 2023

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People think drugs like Wegovy are a quick fix. So what if they are?

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Mandatory Credit: Photo by Blondet Eliot/ABACA/Shutterstock (13625754c) ? The LINE ? exposition by NEOM in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on November 15, 2022. The Line Expo - Riyadh, Saudi Arabia - 15 Nov 2022

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Does oil-rich Saudi Arabia really want to mend its ways and go green?

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Social media brings benefits as well as risks to young people

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Social media brings benefits as well as risks to young people

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Record-breaking number of qubits entangled in a quantum computer

A group of 51 superconducting qubits have been entangled inside a quantum computer, not just in pairs but in a complex system that entangles each qubit to every other one

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Environment

Coral reefs are contaminated with plastic from fishing

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Environment

The oceans are getting greener because of climate change

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Quantum twist on common computer algorithm promises useful speed boost

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Environment

Microplastics found in the soil on farms used to grow crops

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