Microsoft has called for the US federal government to create a new agency specifically focused on regulating AI, Bloombergreports. At a speech in Washington, DC attended by some members of Congress and non-governmental organizations, Microsoft vice chair and president Brad Smith remarked that... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2023-05-26 09:55:10 UTC ]
PHILOSOPHER GARY COX’S How to Be Good: or How to Be Moral and Virtuous in a Wicked World was recently released by Bloomsbury Academic. In the book, Cox explores the concept of goodness, how it is achievable, and how to decide what the right thing to do is. Moral philosophy is notoriously complex... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Review of Books | 2020-06-06 12:30:45 UTC ]
Allen’s “Apropos of Nothing,” recently released after being canceled by its original publisher, covers his childhood in Brooklyn, his career and the abuse allegations against him. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-03-26 21:46:30 UTC ]
Children’s book publisher Lee & Low Books, a minority-owned company that focuses on multicultural literature, recently released the results of a survey geared towards finding out one thing: What do the numbers say about the widely perceived lack of diversity in the publishing world? The... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-01-29 21:40:46 UTC ]
Moroccan-American novelist Laila Lalami, sat down for a video chat with The Times to discuss her recently released novel, “The Other Americans,” at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. Lalami’s book follows the hit-and-run death of a Moroccan immigrant and the stories of the people connected... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2019-04-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Prolific author T.C. Boyle paid a visit to the Times studio at the Festival of books to discuss his 28th book, “Outside Looking In.” The recently released novel, which plays off his 2003 book “Drop City,” takes place on Harvard’s campus in the early 1960s and follows the “beginnings of LSD.”... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2019-04-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Charlotte Yates and Emma Robinson are civil union partners living in Wellington. Yates, 54, a singer-songwriter, has recently released her seventh studio album, Then the Stars Start Singing. Robinson, 51, is an actor, producer, director and photographer, and now also a published writer, with a... Continue reading >> [ Source: Stuff | 2017-09-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sourcepoint, a New York-based content compensation platform for publishers, recently released new data on the effects of ad blockers on its clients' sites. "As the threat of ad blocking is becoming more prevalent, publishers are working hard to identify sustainable ways of being compensated for... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2016-01-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Pushkin Press has acquired a “dark and disturbing” debut novel by Inge Schilperoord, originally published in the Netherlands. Commissioning editor Daniel Seton at Pushkin acquired world English rights to Tench from Podium, via Marleen Seegers at 2 Seas Agency. Tench tells the story of a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-08-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
A second preview of Clinton's book 'Hard Choices' was recently released and the excerpt details her 'partnership and friendship' with President Obama and her wish to 'revisit certain choices.' Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-06-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
It has become a truism that “men don’t read women.” The assertion is taken as self-evident by feminist publications like Salon (“while women read books written by men, men do not tend to reciprocate”) and shown anecdotally by blogs. It is also perpetuated by male bastions like Esquire, which... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2013-04-25 00:00:00 UTC ]