For years the Taliban told women to cover up in public. Now they're cracking down

At hospitals, at seminaries and on buses, the Taliban is stepping up enforcement of rules on women's dress in the city of ...
IEEE

Improving Human Action Recognition in Australian Rules Football through Video Data Augmentation

Abstract: For video-based computer vision tasks and deep learning more generally, it is essential to have large amounts of correctly annotated data for model training and evaluation. This is ...
Northcountrypublicradio.org

A supercomputer beat a human chess champ 30 years ago, paving a path for AI dominance

In 1996, IBM's Deep Blue faced off against Garry Kasparov, the greatest chess mind on Earth — and changed history. A supercomputer beat a human chess champ 30 years ago, paving a path for AI dominance ...
Human Rights Watch

European Parliament Tries to Bury the Right to Seek Asylum

The European Parliament voted today to usher in changes to European Union asylum rules that jeopardize the right to seek asylum. The “safe country of origin” concept is also problematic because it ...
NPR

A supercomputer beat a human chess champ 30 years ago, paving a path for AI dominance

Could a machine outthink the best human mind in the world? Thirty years ago that was still an open question, but a historic matchup between a chess grandmaster and an IBM supercomputer answered it. On ...