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It was now a few weeks from Christmas, and I dug my hands into my pockets as I approached the Reb’s front door. A pacemaker had been put into his chest a few weeks earlier, and while he’d come through the procedure all right, looking back, I think that was the man’s last chip. His …
When Mark Zuckerberg told Congress that Facebook would use artificial intelligence to detect fake news posted on the social media site, he wasn’t particularly specific about what that meant. Given my own work using image and video analytics, I suggest the company should be careful. Despite some basic potential flaws, AI can be a useful …
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When you’re young, people project their crushes on you as if you’re a blank screen. Folks gush as infants in each others vicinity gurgle and giggle at nothing in particular: “Oh, look, these two kids love each other!” In middle school, friends will cackle if you stare a little too long at someone: “You must be in looooove.” …
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“Richard, Richard,” they said to me often in my childhood, “when will you begin to see things as they are?” But I always learned from one thing what another was, and it was that way when we all went from Dorchester to New York to see my grandfather off for Europe, the year before the First World …
Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Costa speaks during a bi-monthly debate at the Portuguese parliament,Lisbon in March, 2018. NurPhoto/ Press Association. All rights reserved. Across the European continent, support for the populist radical right has increased over the last three decades. Even in countries that had seemed immune to such tendencies for decades, including Finland, Sweden and, above all, Germany, right-wing populist …
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Click:office desk chair Alice Duer Miller (July 28, 1874 – August 22, 1942) was an author, poet, and screenwriter. She is notable for, among other things, having published a collection of satirical poems, Are Women People? The title became a catchphrase for the women’s suffrage movement (she subsequently published a collection called Women are People!). …
Bumper stickers are some form of self expression, I guess. Whether you want the people who drive behind you to know who you voted for, that your kid made the honor roll, or that you are a huge Phish fan, people love adorning the back of their cars with stickers. But sometimes the design of …
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Larry Hogarth stood in his office at the back of the gallery, arms crossed, eyeing his latest acquisition with silent glee. The big canvas, unsigned, unframed, and a little tattered at the edges, dealt with religious themes. Hogarth saw at least three different biblical stories crammed in together, each situated in a different portion of …
Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro. March 6, 2017. Xinhua/SIPA USA/PA Images. All rights reserved The financial blockade imposed on the Latin American nation is achieving its principle objective: to isolate Venezuela. However, the sanctions are also gradually creating open wounds within Venezuelan society. Wounds that are increasingly deeper that can’t be repaired so easily. Although the …
Though largely forgotten, Jeff Brown’s 1960s fiction in the Post employs dark humor and psychology in puzzling stories of human interaction. “Incident on the Tenth Floor” is his 1966 story about a former actor facing the alienating business world amidst pressures from his wife’s wealthy parents. Jeff Brown’s short character study is representative of postmodern fiction of the ’60s in …
