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If history had gone differently, “Titanic” would’ve starred Lenny Williams. In a recent appearance on the “New Heights” podcast, Leonardo DiCaprio said an agent told him in his early teens that his name was “too ethnic,” and suggested he go by the stage name Lenny Williams instead. “I finally got an agent. They said, ‘Your name is too ethnic,’” DiCaprio …

Leonardo DiCaprio has longtime fans pondering if a former teen heartthrob by any other name is still just as famous. The Oscar winner recently revealed that he was originally told his name was “too ethnic” and advised by one of his early agents to perform under a stage name, which brought a strong reaction out of his father. “I finally …

Google said it took model bias “extremely seriously” and was developing privacy techniques that can sanitise sensitive datasets and develop safeguards against bias and discrimination. Researchers have suggested that one way to reduce medical bias in AI is to identify what data sets should not be used for training in the first place and then train on diverse and more …

A plan circulating in the White House to develop the “Gaza Riviera” as a string of high-tech megacities has been dismissed as an “insane” attempt to provide cover for the large-scale ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian territory’s population. The Washington Post published on Sunday a leaked prospectus for the plan, which would see the forced displacement of Gaza’s entire population …