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Twitter launches competition to find biases in its image-cropping algorithm
By Sheila Dang (Reuters) - Twitter Inc said on Friday it will launch a competition for computer researchers and hackers to identify biases in its image-cropping algorithm, after a group of researchers...
Jul 30, 2021
Amanda Knox criticizes ‘Stillwater’ film for profiting off her story
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Amanda Knox, the American woman who was tried and acquitted of murder in Italy more than a decade ago, has hit out at a Hollywood movie that she said seeks to profit off her na...
Jul 30, 2021
Indian billionaire’s new airline may give Boeing a chance to regain lost ground
By Aditi Shah NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian billionaire Rakesh Jhunjhunwala's plan to launch an ultra-low-cost airline, could give planemaker Boeing a chance to regain lost ground in India after the fa...
Jul 30, 2021
Amazon faces more than slowing sales growth: it needs more warehouses
By Jeffrey Dastin and Danielle Kaye (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc needs to spend billions of dollars to expand its warehouse and delivery system, adding pressure to its shares which dropped 7% on Friday ...
Jul 30, 2021
White House says average number of people getting COVID-19 vaccination shots is up 30%
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - White House principal deputy press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said on Friday the average number of people getting COVID-19 vaccination shots is up 30% at a time when the Delta...
Jul 30, 2021
New Peoria Police Chief sworn in
PEORIA, Ill. — Peoria’s new Chief of Police, Eric Echevarria, has officially been sworn in. Echevarria has been a law enforcement professional for over 20 years for the city of Elgin, Illi...
Jul 30, 2021
Worker sued Lyondell in May over safety at Texas plant that killed two
By Liz Hampton (Reuters) - A contractor sued LyondellBasell Industries in May, alleging lax safety measures led to a workplace accident at the same plant that leaked chemicals this week, killing two c...
Jul 30, 2021
U.S. commuters uneasy as Delta variant threatens return to workplaces
By Maria Caspani, Rich McKay, Brendan O'Brien and Tim Reid NEW YORK/ATLANTA (Reuters) - The fast-spreading Delta variant of the coronavirus is worrying some U.S. commuters who are already back on crow...
Jul 30, 2021
Johnson & Johnson not liable for Illinois woman’s death in talc case
By Tom Hals and Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) - An Illinois jury on Friday refused to hold Johnson & Johnson liable for a woman's death from ovarian cancer, which her family blamed on decades of using it...
Jul 30, 2021
Hollywood agency slams Disney in heated dispute over Johansson’s ‘Black Widow’
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - One of Hollywood's biggest talent agencies on Friday hit out at the Disney movie studio in an escalating public dispute over claims by Scarlett Johansson that she had lost mone...
Jul 30, 2021
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