New York governor said Black kids in the Bronx do not know the word ‘computer’

07/05/2024 12:53 The Guardian

Kathy Hochul made comment at California conference to showcase upstate AI center before apologizing on Monday nightThe governor of New York, Kathy Hochul, has rapidly backtracked on remarks she made on Monday after she came under a blizzard of criticism for saying that Black children in the Bronx did not know the word “computer”.Hochul had intended her appearance at the Milken Institute Global Conference in California on Monday to showcase Empire AI, the $400m consortium she is leading to create an artificial intelligence computing center in upstate New York. Instead, she dug herself into a hole with an utterance she quickly regretted. Continue reading...

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Helicopter carrying Iran’s president crashes in mountains, official says – Middle East live

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19/05/2024 16:17 The Guardian

‘Scary’: public-school textbooks the latest target as US book bans intensify

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19/05/2024 16:00 The Guardian

Helicopter carrying Iran’s president forced into ‘hard landing’

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19/05/2024 15:30 The Guardian

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19/05/2024 14:46 The Guardian

Labour’s Zarah Sultana takes Cameron to task over UK arms sales to Israel

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Viagogo ‘mistakenly’ listed resale of England football match tickets

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Brazil counts cost of worst-ever floods with little hope of waters receding soon

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Schools in England send police to homes of absent pupils with threats to jail their parents

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19/05/2024 06:00 The Guardian

Heart patients forced to wait over a year for treatment in England

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Rishi Sunak faces cabinet backlash over plans to curb foreign student visas

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Israeli minister vows to quit war cabinet if PM fails to agree new Gaza plan

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Virginia governor allows Confederate groups to keep tax exemptions

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Suspect in court as Putin’s friends capitalise on shooting of Slovakian PM Robert Fico

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Hamas ‘rejects’ any military presence in Gaza as aid begins to arrive along US-made pier – as it happened

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Disappearing ink, fake polls and voter fraud: EU fears as Russian propaganda ads target Euro elections

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Pro-Palestine protesters gatecrash Victorian Labor conference ahead of debate on Israel-Hamas war

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Supplies arrive in Gaza via new pier but land routes essential, says US aid chief

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