Sam Roberts

BSI's Sam Roberts and Andrea Tirelli examine how AI developers can achieve greater AI ethics, prioritising fairness and lack of bias in their systems

The Queens home of the Black inventor who contributed to the invention of the lightbulb gets an overdue makeover.

He turned “an insignificant trade house” into a powerhouse, publishing best sellers like “The Silence of the Lambs” and “All Creatures Great and Small.”

William E. Burrows in 1959, when he was an undergraduate at Columbia University. Burrows, who as a journalist and author explored the promise and perils posed by outer space — including the proliferation of weapons and spy satellites and the threat of potentially earth-shattering asteroids — died on June 29, 2024, in Bridgeport, Conn. He was 87. (The New York Times)

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He brought to his writing a sharp sense of humor, honed in stand-up comedy clubs, and never pulled punches even though he was an unabashed Democrat.

Walter Shapiro, a canny, penetrating and often contrarian political columnist whose career included stints as a presidential speechwriter, stand-up comic, professor, author and, as a college student, congressional candidate, died on Sunday in Manhattan. He was 77.

He was general counsel of Mr. Sharpton’s civil rights group, the National Action Network, and defended him in a defamation suit arising from the Tawana Brawley case.

Walter Shapiro, a canny, penetrating, and often contrarian political columnist whose career included stints as a presidential speechwriter, stand-up

He directed a team of engineers that built Spirit, Opportunity and Curiosity, mobile robots that offered astonishing glimpses into the planet's ancient past.