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Puppy love, facial recognition bias and other stories you missed | 5 STORIES | July 23, 2021

The PBS NewsHour’s “5 STORIES” serves up five interesting stories from around the world that you may have missed. On this week’s episode: Researchers reveals puppies’ love of people is in their genes, portions of the Amazon start to release more carbon than they take in, drowning statistics reveal deadly racial differences, bias in facial recognition software leads to the arrests of the wrong people and a 97-year-old becomes the world’s oldest tennis player.

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0:08 Puppy love
0:56 Amazon rainforest’s carbon flip
2:00 Drowning statistics
2:55 Facial recognition software bias
3:51 The world’s oldest tennis player

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