Default feminine voices used in AI assistants like Amazon’s Alexa or Apple’s Siri promote gender stereotypes of female subservience, a new UN report has claimed, “‘How can you harass code?’ UN report calling ‘feminine’ Alexa & Siri SEXIST prompts ridicule online”
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Bittersweet no more: Rolling Stones pass Verve royalties to Richard Ashcroft
Mick Jagger and Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones have ended one of the most acrimonious copyright disputes in British pop history, by granting Richard “Bittersweet no more: Rolling Stones pass Verve royalties to Richard Ashcroft”
Could you give up flying? Meet the no-plane pioneers
It has taken Roger Tyers four days to reach Moscow by train from Kiev. His destination is Beijing: a trip that will take 14 days, “Could you give up flying? Meet the no-plane pioneers”
‘Put that down, cancel that’: the Guardian tracks Philip Green to Monaco
While Sir Philip Green’s 19,000 employees fear for their future as his Arcadia retail empire attempts to engineer a rescue deal, the Guardian tracked down “‘Put that down, cancel that’: the Guardian tracks Philip Green to Monaco”
US mafia explosives expert ‘helped Sicilian mob kill judge’
New York’s powerful Gambino mafia family sent a bomb expert to Sicily to train Cosa Nostra mobsters to assassinate an anti-mafia investigator, a former hitman “US mafia explosives expert ‘helped Sicilian mob kill judge’”
Italian surgeons discover ‘world’s oldest heart valve’ in woman
Italian doctors have discovered one of the first heart prostheses, implanted almost 50 years ago by Christiaan Barnard, who performed the world’s first human-to-human heart “Italian surgeons discover ‘world’s oldest heart valve’ in woman”
‘The stories are a bit sinister’: the secrets of London’s hidden rivers revealed
Whenever a gap appears in the traffic roaring past the new Bloomberg building in the City of London, it is just possible to make out “‘The stories are a bit sinister’: the secrets of London’s hidden rivers revealed”
Seth Meyers on Trump: ‘Treat him like he’s a grandpa in a nursing home’
Late-night hosts focused on Donald Trump’s snap press conference on Wednesday as well as the controversy over Democratic candidates appearing on Fox News. Seth Meyers “Seth Meyers on Trump: ‘Treat him like he’s a grandpa in a nursing home’”
Argentina and Algeria stamp out malaria in ‘historic achievement’
Algeria and Argentina have been declared malaria-free by the World Health Organization, in what has been described as a “historic achievement” for both countries. The “Argentina and Algeria stamp out malaria in ‘historic achievement’”
2020 candidate John Delaney pitches vastly unusual climate change plan
The first three Democratic presidential candidates to declare their plans to tackle the climate crisis are focussing on setting deadlines to neutralize US pollution. But “2020 candidate John Delaney pitches vastly unusual climate change plan”