The Winter session of Parliament will be held from November 29 till December 23. The Cabinet Committee on Parliamentary Affairs (CCPA), which met on Monday, has approved these dates and sent a recommendation to the President to call the session. The 25 day-long session will have 19 sittings and will be held with all…
Twitter has released a study that analyses if its recommendation algorithms amplify political content on users’ timeline and the reasons why it does that. Twitter’s ML Ethics, Transparency, and Accountability (META) research team analysed the tweets posted by elected officials between April 1 and August 15, 2020.…
The subject expert committee on Covid-19 vaccines has recommended the national drug regulator to grant an emergency use authorisation to Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin for the age group of 2 to 18 years, health ministry sources said. The development is significant as India is just one step away from a Covid-19 vaccine…
Facebook on Friday said it disabled its topic recommendation feature after it mistook Black men for “primates” in video at the social network. A Facebook spokesperson called it a “clearly unacceptable error” and said the recommendation software involve was taken offline. “We apologize to…