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Two computer scientists have cast more doubt on the accuracy of risk assessment tools.
After comparing predictions made by a group of untrained adults to those of the risk assessment software COMPAS, authors found that the software “is no more accurate or fair than predictions made...
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Legal teams can play a major role in helping clients reduce vulnerabilities, minimize consequences, and hasten responses to cyber attacks, but doing so requires a focus around the changing nature of the underlying risk. Let’s take three areas where lawyers play crucial counseling roles: liability...
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In 2015, federal judge Leo Sorokin of Boston started a pilot program he had been envisioning for years. He called it RISE—Repair, Invest, Succeed, Emerge. RISE offered a rare second chance for adult defendants convicted of serious federal crimes to avoid prison, reports the American...
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On January 12, the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas closed its doors for another year. Each CES raises a new set of technology themes, ranging from robots to smart fridges — and this year, the winner was voice technologies. Such technologies, while...
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A team of officers swarmed a home in Harrisburg, Pa., Thursday with the goal of arresting Shayla Lynette Towles Pierce on an outstanding warrant. The early morning raid kicked off a horrific firefight that killed U.S. deputy marshal Christopher Hill, wounded two officers and left...
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Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh replaced police commissioner Kevin Davis on Friday, citing the need to get a handle on Baltimore’s record levels of violence, the Baltimore Sun reports. Deputy Commissioner Darryl DeSousa, the top commander in the police department’s patrol bureau, is taking Davis’ place,...