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More workers out after pro-Palestinian protests

2024-04-23 03:03 PM by Wanda Parisien

Some Google employees were fired after protesting the company’s contract with Israel. After the protests, CEO Sundar Pichai said workers should not ‘attempt to use the company as a personal platform.’ Google fires staff who protested contract with Israeli government Google fires dozens after protests over $1.2 billion Project Nimbus contract with Amazon, which provides …

AI Discovers That Not Every Fingerprint Is Unique

2024-01-27 04:40 AM by Eugen Boglaru

By Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science January 27, 2024 An undergraduate-led team at Columbia Engineering used AI to challenge the forensic assumption that fingerprints from different fingers of the same person are unmatchable, discovering a new kind of forensic marker. Despite initial skepticism, their findings, which could revolutionize forensic science, were published …