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New president of the Royal Society for Blind Children calls for better design of AI-driven technologyBlind and partially sighted people are being excluded from the benefits of artificial intelligence tools and facing “a new level of discrimination”, the new president of the Royal Society for Blind Children has claimed as he called for better design of everything from video games to AI agents.Tom Pey said existing difficulties for blind children were “now compounded because they’re excluded distanced from their non-disabled peers, because those people can experience games, alternative realities and the AI-driven visual types of technology”. Continue reading... Source link

Evaluation could lead to limits or bans on substances commonly used in the production of plastic and rubberThe Environmental Protection Agency is launching a formal review of five highly toxic plastic chemicals, including vinyl chloride, the notorious compound at the center of the East Palestine, Ohio, train wreck fire.The move could lead to strong limits or bans on the substances. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/dec/25/epa-vinyl-chloride-toxic-plastic Author : Tom Perkins Publish date : 2024-12-25 13:00:12 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Democrat Kris Mayes is ‘not afraid’ of Trump administration and vows to push back against key immigration policiesKris Mayes, the attorney general of Arizona, has vowed to fight the incoming Trump administration over key aspects of its immigration policy, including any attempt to set up deportation camps on Arizonan soil or remove thousands of migrant “dreamers” who came to the US as children.In an interview with the Guardian, Mayes said that any move by Donald Trump in his second presidential term to unpick the rights of dreamers to remain and work in the US would be a “bright red line

Zelenskyy describes cruise and ballistic missile strikes, which caused blackouts in several regions, as ‘inhuman’Russia-Ukraine war live – follow the latest updatesChristmas morning in Ukraine was overshadowed by a massive Russian aerial attack using cruise missiles to target energy infrastructure across the country, which Volodymyr Zelenskyy condemned as “inhuman”.“Today, Putin deliberately chose Christmas to attack. What could be more inhuman? More than 70 missiles, including ballistic missiles, and more than a hundred attack drones,” the Ukrainian president said on Telegram. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/25/russia-christmas-day-attack-ukraine-energy-system Author : Pjotr Sauer and agencies Publish date : 2024-12-25 12:39:55 Copyright for syndicated