The Los Angeles City Council is considering changing the way it sets annual allowable increases for rent-controlled properties for the first time in nearly 40 years. The city ordinance sets an allowable annual increase in rents between a guaranteed minimum of 3% and a maximum of 8% based on the consumer price index, which measures inflation. If allowable rent increases …
Last week Microsoft Corp said it would stop selling software that guesses a person’s mood by looking at their face. Now many AI makers are using fake or “synthetic” images to train computers on a broader array of people, skin tones, ages or other features, essentially flipping the notion that fake data is bad. Lindgren used the method to create …
Surgical instruments lie on a table during a kidney transplant surgery at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital. The U.S. transplant system needs an overhaul to stop wasting organs and give more patients a fair chance at the life-saving surgery, says an influential scientific advisory panel that set a five-year deadline to turn things around. “While the transplant system does a lot …
