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Study Finds Crime-Predicting Algorithm Is No Smarter Than Online Poll Takers
In a study published Wednesday, a pair of Dartmouth researchers found that a popular risk assessment algorithm was no better at predicting a criminal offender’s likelihood of reoffending than an internet survey of humans with little or no relevant experience.
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Prominent YouTuber Charged With Felony Involving Explosives
Jonathan Grant Thompson, a 37-year-old YouTuber, has been charged with two counts of possession of an explosive device, KSL reports. The only people who could have seen this coming were any of his nearly nine million subscribers.
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Ancestry Made Its Privacy Policy More Transparent, But It Still Claims To Own Your DNA
When you spit in a test tube in in hopes of finding out about your ancestry, you’re giving companies like AncestryDNA access to a whole lot of very intimate details about what makes you, you. But how consumer genetic testing companies actually use your DNA is often obscured behind many pages of vague, jargon-filled legalese…
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What Twitter’s New Statement About Not Banning Trump Really Means
Yesterday, Twitter published a five paragraph answer to the loudly, repeatedly-shouted question: “Why won’t you ban Donald Trump, a man who has actively used your platform to threaten nuclear annihilation against an entire country?” Here it is in its entirety.