Fashion magazine W sparked a great deal of ridicule recently over the celebrity portraits in its latest Best Performances issue — photos criticized as being uninspired, of poor taste, technically flawed, and amateurish. That may all be true, but it was also intentional — that’s just photographer Juergen Teller’s trademark style…
W Magazine‘s latest annual Best Performances issue…
Leica Unveils Women Foto Project Award Winners
March 9, 2021
In honor of International Women’s Day, Leica has announced the recipients of the second-annual Leica Women Foto Project Award which is a part of the Leica Women Foto Project, an ongoing commitment to diversity in visual storytelling to help empower the female point of view…
WASHINGTON — The Army National Guard has seen three UH-60 L-model Black Hawk utility helicopter crashes on U.S. soil in just over a year. Two of those happened within the first five weeks of 2021. But despite the pattern of incidents involving Guard Black Hawks, the…
Google has rolled out a new wallpaper collection to Chromebooks called “Imaginary” that adds 12 colorful new images to Chrome OS. Each background contains a fun, digitally-sculpted scene.
The wallpapers, which were designed by digital artist Leo Natsume, are made up of clay people or personified things in a variety of scenes and situations. They are titled as follows:
The Savanna’s…
Boston-based Nexamp, Inc., a renewable energy generator and community solar provider, has closed a $440 million senior secured credit facility for a 380-megawatt portfolio of solar and energy storage assets. It’s one of the largest debt financing agreements of its…
Over the past month, Google has announced a slew of upcoming video calling features for education and enterprise customers. Some of them are now rolling out, including the ability to set up Google Meet breakout rooms in advance using Calendar.
Support for up to 100…
Quick Charge Podcast: March 8, 2021
March 9, 2021
Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players.
New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded Monday through Thursday and again on Saturday. Subscribe to our podcast in Apple Podcast or your favorite podcast player to guarantee new episodes are delivered as…
Regulators in the United States and Europe approved Microsoft’s acquisition of Zenimax Media, and that means Bethesda is now an Xbox studio. But what does that mean for the companies involved and for fans of games like Fallout and The Elder Scrolls? Well, Microsoft is…
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Researchers affiliated with Nvidia and Harvard today detailed AtacWorks, a machine learning toolkit designed to bring down the cost and time needed for rare and single-cell…
Google employee group urges Congress to strengthen whistleblower protections for AI researchers
March 9, 2021
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Google’s decision to fire its AI ethics leaders is a matter of “urgent public concern” that merits strengthening laws to protect AI researchers and tech workers who want to act as whistleblowers. That’s according to a letter published by Google employees today in support of the Ethical AI team at…
