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Trump is the kid caught in the cookie jar – impeachment is imperative | Robert Reich

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Don’t assume the Senate won’t convict and remove a president who sees the danger and grows more desperate by the day

Donald Trump will almost certainly be impeached in the House, possibly as soon as Thanksgiving. The odds are rising that he’ll be convicted in the Senate.

Related: Did Trump commit a crime? The impeachment inquiry, explained

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Meet a guy who converts gas-guzzling cars into electric vehicles  | CBC News

In this week’s issue of our environment newsletter, we speak to a Toronto entrepreneur who converts gas-guzzling cars into electric vehicles and learn about climate communication from Canadian scientist and ‘Champion of the Earth’ Katharine Hayhoe.
— Read on www.cbc.ca/news/technology/what-on-earth-newsletter-converting-electric-cars-1.5307221

Google reportedly targeted homeless people with ‘dark skin’ to improve AI

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Subcontracted workers were instructed to persuade subjects to agree to face scans, mischaracterizing them as a ‘selfie game’ or ‘survey’

Facial recognition technology’s failures when it comes to accurately identifying people of color have been well documented and much criticized. But an attempt by Google to improve its facial recognition algorithms by collecting data from people with dark skin is raising further concerns about the ethics of the data harvesting.

Google has been using subcontracted workers to collect face scans from members of the public in exchange for $5 gift cards, according to a report from the New York Daily News. The face scan collection project had been previously reported, but anonymous sources described unethical and deceptive practices to the Daily News.

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