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Take better photos of the smokey orange fire sky

Much of the West Coast woke up to dark orange skies this morning, as wildfire smoke from hundreds of fires burning across California, Oregon and Washington blocked the sun.  If, like many of us, you grabbed your phone to capture the creepy scene in a weird year that somehow continues to get weirder, you may have noticed that your phone’s …

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Facial recognition tech designed to identify African faces wins engineering award

Facial recognition has a reputation problem. What could be an exciting new technology with the potential to make our lives easier, safer and more secure has been blighted by reports that it repeatedly fails when asked to correctly identify the faces of Black people. But pioneering software engineer Charlette N’Guessan from Ghana has presented a different vision of what facial …

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