Thomas Moyer is accused of offering bribes in the form of iPads worth $70,000 in order to obtain concealed firearms licenses.
Listen, I’m not saying that they definitely changed their name so as not to be associated with uptick in antiracist activism being painted with the “riot” brush, but I’m saying it sure is an interesting coincidence.
“The technology that powers the nation’s leading automated speech recognition systems makes twice as many errors when interpreting words spoken by African Americans as when interpreting the same words spoken by whites.”
True story: my wedding was shamed on the internet before it was cool.
Complicated, but an interesting overview of how social networks and AI are perpetuating the segregation problems of offline life.
not even sure how this is legal.
also Accenture is one of the companies that some Social Security Ticket To Work contractors recommend to disabled people who are trying to go back to work. Not a good look.
the app "works by comparing a photo to a database of more than 3 billion pictures" it's scraped from all over the internet.
Connection speeds are faster than ever, and website speeds are... not.
"If you add another advertisement to your pages, you generate more revenue. If you track your users better, now you can deliver tailored ads and your conversion rates are higher. If you restrict users from leaving your walled garden ecosystem, now you get all the juice from whatever attention they have.
The question is: At which point do we reach the breaking point?
And I think the answer is: We are very close."
“If anything you post online can be used against you forever, even if you pose no immediate threat to anyone, then the dragnet that people feared would happen under Trump is already happening,” she told The Intercept. “When ICE agents are speculating on your relationship status, what kind of power dynamic does that create?”
Things at Purism are not looking good.
Finally, Stack Overflow is realizing that the unwelcome environments in tech are about more than just dealing with insults and bullying.