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Credit Chad Davis/Flickr More Americans getting the COVID-19 vaccinations means more Americans getting out of the house for the first time in more than a year. Those planning air travel need to know that scammers are lurking as you book your flight. Reports of con artists creating fake airline ticket booking sites, or customer service numbers are said to be coming into Better Business Bureau offices. “The airlines are starting to put out different air fares and that kind of thing, the scammers are right there with their fake websites,” said Tammy Ward at the BBB in Pensacola. She adds tha...

It takes a lot of energy for machines to learn – here’s why AI is so power-hungry December 24, 2020 Data centers like this Google facility in Iowa use copious amounts of electricity. Credit: Chad Davis/Flickr. This month, Google forced out a prominent AI ethics researcher after she voiced frustration with the company for making her withdraw a research paper. The paper pointed out the risks of language-processing artificial intelligence, the type used in Google Search and other text analysis products. Among the risks is the large carbon footprint of developing this kind of AI technol...