A not-so-Golden Age for women — The post-system presence of more female producers, directors helped break the cycle. Jennifer Ouellette - May 30, 2020 10:41 pm UTC Enlarge / Olivia de Havilland—pictured here as Melanie Hamliton in the 1939 Oscar-Winning film Gone with the Wind—successfully sued Warner Bros. in 1943 to free herself from her…
(Reuters) - In addition to disputing misleading claims made by U.S. President Donald Trump about mail-in ballots this week, Twitter has added fact-checking labels to thousands of other tweets since introducing the alerts earlier this month, mostly on posts about the coronavirus. FILE PHOTO: The Twitter logo and binary cyber codes are seen in this…
Image copyright PA Media Microsoft is to replace dozens of contract journalists on its MSN website and use automated systems to select news stories, US and UK media report.The curating of stories from news organisations and selection of headlines and pictures for the MSN site is currently done by journalists.Artificial intelligence will perform these news…
Yeah, sure — Experts say better public health infrastructure, more testing would have helped. Beth Mole - May 29, 2020 9:45 pm UTC Enlarge / Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), attends an event about coronavirus vaccine development in the Rose Garden of the White House on May 15,…
(Reuters) - Shaken and angry, Minneapolis’ telegenic young mayor stood in front of television cameras over and over this week - first to decry the police killing of George Floyd, and on Friday to impose a curfew as parts of his city burned in ongoing protests. State patrol members guard at the area in the…
Image copyright Getty Images Twitter has hidden one of President Donald Trump's tweets from his profile, saying it violates rules about glorifying violence.But instead of being deleted, it has been replaced with a warning and can be viewed by clicking on it.The warning says "Twitter has determined that it may be in the public's interest…
Heart of the ocean — But NOAA is fiercely opposed to the controversial salvage mission. Jennifer Ouellette - May 28, 2020 8:53 pm UTC Enlarge / View of the bow of the RMS Titanic photographed in June 2004 by the ROV Hercules during an expedition returning to the shipwreck.When RMS Titanic struck an iceberg on April…
(Reuters) - Wall Street ended lower on Thursday following a late-session reversal, with Facebook weighing on the market after President Donald Trump said he would sign an executive order related to social media companies and would hold a news conference on China on Friday. Shares of Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) ended down 4.4% and Facebook Inc…
Image copyright AFP Image caption Hong Kong police confronted pro-democracy protesters on Wednesday China's parliament has backed a new security law for Hong Kong which would make it a crime to undermine Beijing's authority in the territory.The bill - which now passes to China's senior leadership - has caused deep concern among those who say…
More transparency please — YouTube would only say its classifiers didn't consider "the proper context." Timothy B. Lee - May 27, 2020 8:51 pm UTC Enlarge / Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks in Wuzhen, China, in 2017.YouTube says it has "rolled out a fix" for an "error in our enforcement systems" that had led to…
