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Science & Innovation
Discovery, invention and the people behind progress. These editorials examine innovators whose contributions were overlooked, minimized or separated from the recognition and economic benefit their work helped create.
When AI Accuses You, Who Checks the Machine?
A possible algorithmic match became a human consequence. Who had the duty to verify the accusation?
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An enslaved boy on Réunion discovered the hand-pollination technique that transformed vanilla cultivation. His discovery spread around the world, while recognition of the person behind it came much later.
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