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Many Facial-Recognition Systems Are Biased, Says U.S. Study

The majority of commercial facial-recognition systems exhibit bias, according to a study from a federal agency released Thursday, underscoring questions about a technology increasingly used by police departments and federal agencies to identify suspected criminals.The systems falsely identified African American and Asian faces 10 times to 100 times more than Caucasian faces, the National Institute...

How the real-life search for planets goes farther out than the Star Wars universe

Over the past 42 years, filmgoers have seen exotic worlds come to life in a succession of Star Wars movies — a series that is now coming to a climax with "Star Wars: Episode IX, The Rise of Skywalker." But are those exoplanets really all that exotic anymore? Sure, we've seen two suns in the sky over the sands of Tatooine, Luke Skywalker's home planet. We've been to an ice...