President Trump said he will name his Supreme Court nominee on Friday or Saturday, with five women currently under consideration. Senate Democrats say whoever wins the upcoming presidential election should get to nominate a justice to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

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• On a call with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, according to sources, Trump named two of the five women who he is considering to fill the seat: Amy Coney Barrett, who currently serves as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago, and Barbara Lagoa, who also serves on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit.
• Ginsburg will lie in repose at the Supreme Court on Wednesday and Thursday and will lie in state at the U.S. Capitol on Friday. She will be the first woman to lie in state at the Capitol Building.
• Trump and Senate Republicans are ignoring a request from Ruth Bader Ginsburg, apparently made in the days before her death, to allow the candidate who wins the upcoming presidential election to fill her seat.
• The GOP is also ignoring a precedent set by Mitch McConnell four years ago, when he blocked President Obama’s Supreme Court nomination, Merrick Garland, saying an election-year vacancy should be filled by the next president.
• Two current Supreme Court Justices – Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh – were nominated by President Trump.

A federal judge in Nevada has dismissed a lawsuit brought by the Trump campaign concerning the state's mail-in-voting law. The Trump campaign has 30 days to appeal the ruling.

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• Under the new law, all active voters will receive a mail-in ballot for the November election. 
• The new bill, AB4, was passed in a special session and requires all active voters to receive a mail-in ballot during the current state of emergency 
• Polls currently show Joe Biden with a slim lead over President Trump in Nevada.
• Other states, such as Texas, have blocked some attempts to expand mail-in voting.

Twitter says it will look into its auto-cropping algorithm after it showed racial bias against Black faces. Twitter uses a neural network to automatically crop photos so they don't take up as much space on user feeds, but it appears to focus more on white people than Black people.

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• The issue was highlighted in cryptographic engineer Tony Arcieri's recent experiment, where he demonstrated how the algorithm removed Barack Obama's face in a photo preview that users see as they scroll through feeds.
• The original photo featured both Obama and Mitch McConnell. In this case, the AI honed in on McConnell's face and removed Obama's in the preview.
• Obama's photo apparently did show when Arcieri inverted the colors. Intertheory’s Kim Sherrell also found that a higher-contrast smile was effective.
• A similar scenario happened with "The Simpsons" characters Lenny and Carl. In the preview, Twitter's algorithm removed Carl, who is Black, and only showed Lenny, who is white.
• Twitter’s chief design officer Dantley Davis said it's now "on the team's mind" to stop cropping photos. The model was initially analyzed but requires "continuous improvement," Twitter CTO Parag Agrawal noted.
• Twitter spokeswoman Liz Kelley said the company tested the model for bias before using it, but it's become clear that more analysis is needed.

A version of this story first appeared in Inside AI. You can read the full issue here. 

A federal judge has thrown out a defamation case against Tesla and Elon Musk by former Nevada Gigafactory employee Martin Tripp. After Tesla sued Tripp for $167m in damages for illegally exporting data and leaking it out to reporters in June 2018, Tripp filed a defamation lawsuit against the automaker. However, Judge Miranda Du found that Tripp failed to prove that Tesla acted out of malice.

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• Du dismissed a claim from Tesla that Tripp’s leak caused a $167m decline in the company’s market value.
• But he said that Tesla's claim that Tripp violated Nevada's computer crimes law can proceed.
• Tripp maintains that in his case against Tesla, he acted as a "whistleblower." 
• Tesla claims that Tripp wrote software that hacked into the automaker’s manufacturing OS and shared stolen data with news reporters, specifically Linette Lopez of Business Insider.
• Tripp is representing himself. He fired his lawyers after it was revealed that his legal team was being paid by a short seller.

A version of this story first appeared in Inside EV. You can read the full issue here. 

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• Microsoft's rebuilt digital Xbox store has launched and is now available to all Xbox One users. 
• Streaming service company Quibi is looking at potentially selling the company. 
• U.S. stocks continued to fall today – the Dow Jones dropped 1.9%, while the S&P 500 fell 1.2%.
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