Mark Rickerby Lecturer, School of Product Design, University of Canterbury The incident of a woman misidentified by facial recognition technology at a Rotorua supermarket should have come as no surprise. When Foodstuffs North Island announced its intention to trial this technology in February, as part of a strategy to combat
Jordi Calvet-Bademunt Research Fellow and Visiting Scholar of Political Science Jacob Mchangama Research Professor of Political Science Vanderbilt University Google recently made headlines globally because its chatbot Gemini generated images of people of colour instead of white people in historical settings that featured white people. Adobe Firefly’s image creation
Paul Driessen Paul Driessen is senior policy analyst for the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (www.CFACT.org) and author of books and articles on energy, environment, climate and human rights issues. cfact.org More than 3,400 years ago, Joshua led the Hebrew people across the Jordan River into
Duggan Flanakin Duggan Flanakin is a senior policy analyst with the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow. A former senior fellow with the Texas Public Policy Foundation, Mr Flanakin authored definitive works on the creation of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and on environmental education in Texas. A brief history
Recently something happened in the tech world that should have made world headlines. But it didn’t. On March 29, Microsoft software developer Andres Freund was trying to optimize the performance of his computer when he noticed that one program was using an unexpected amount of processing power. Freund dove
Robin Chataut Assistant Professor of Cybersecurity and Computer Science, Quinnipiac University Have you ever wondered how an email sent from New York arrives in Sydney in mere seconds, or how you can video chat with someone on the other side of the globe with barely a hint of delay? Behind
Shai Carmi Associate Professor of Population and Statistical Genetics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Harald Ringbauer Group Leader, Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology In 2022, we reported the DNA sequences of 33 medieval people buried in a Jewish cemetery in Germany. Not long after we made the
Francis Menton cfact.org The effort to increase the percentage of electricity generated by intermittent renewable sources like wind and solar inevitably brings about large increases in the actual price of electricity that must be paid by consumers. The price increases grow and accelerate as the percentage of electricity generated
Sally Britnell Senior Lecturer in Nursing, Auckland University of Technology Alongside my career path from a PhD in computer science, work as a nurse and ambulance officer and now a university lecturer in nursing, I have become progressively deafblind. As a result, I have personal experience navigating New Zealand’s
Jeffrey A Tucker Jeffrey Tucker is founder, author, and president at Brownstone Institute. He is also Senior Economics Columnist for Epoch Times, author of 10 books, including Life After Lockdown, and many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press. He speaks widely on topics of economics, technology, social
It was nearly two years ago that I dubbed social media companies the Big Tobacco of the 21st century. I was writing in response to leaked internal research from Facebook and Instagram parent company, Meta, which showed that they were well aware of the harmful effects their products have on
Ronald Stein Ronald Stein is an engineer, senior policy advisor on energy literacy for CFACT, and co-author of the Pulitzer Prize nominated book Clean Energy Exploitations. cfact.org For one of the wealthier countries on this planet, America, with 330 million people representing about four per cent of the world’
Alexandra Gibson Senior Lecturer in Health Psychology, Victoria University of Wellington Alex Beattie Research Fellow, School of Health, Victoria University of Wellington All levels of research are being changed by the rise of artificial intelligence (AI). Don’t have time to read that journal article? AI-powered tools such as TLDRthis
Simon Marvin Director, Urban Institute, University of Sheffield Allan McCay Academic Fellow, University of Sydney Law School, University of Sydney Elon Musk’s company called Neuralink, launched in 2016, aims to implant a piece of technology in people’s brains that would allow them to control a computer or phone
Bret Swanson Bret Swanson is president of the technology research firm Entropy Economics LLC, a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and writes the Infonomena Substack. brownstone.org When the stock markets opened last Monday morning, February 26, Google shares promptly fell 4%, by Wednesday were down nearly
