The Rekognition software struggled to identify gender among females and women with darker skin, according to the study. Amazon's facial tech shows gender, racial bias, MIT study says – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreCommentary: Watching the documentary series Conversations with a Killer brought me back to high school, when I thought Bundy would escape jail to kill me next. Ted Bundy Tapes on Netflix turned me into a terrified teen again – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreAnna Irrera / Reuters: Florida-based Finxact, which helps banks upgrade their legacy backend infrastructure and offer modern digital services via a cloud-based platform, raises $30M — NEW YORK (Reuters) – Accenture Plc, SunTrust Banks Inc and the American Bankers Association, a trade group for U.S. banks … Florida-based Finxact, which helps banks upgrade their legacy
Read MoreThe big game is finally here! Will you be watching? Who do you think will take the title? CNET Asks: Who do you want to win Super Bowl 2019? – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreCNET writers pick a handful of favorite e-books that you can score for less than $3. 8 great Kindle e-books for under – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreNew Facebook documents revealed yesterday shows the company’s attitude towards children spending their parents’ money to be flippant at best… and gross at worst. We first began to hear rumblings about these documents and what they reveal about Facebook and gamer kids last week, when Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting showed snippets. A
Read MoreThe California Sunday Magazine: A collection of stories from US tech workers about how they organize among themselves with tools like Slack, Signal, and Google Docs, for political activism — They Slacked. They messaged on Signal. They circulated pledges on Google Docs. They talked on the phone. A collection of stories from US tech workers
Read MoreIt seems self-defeating for the former head of Oculus Stories Studios and current founder and executive producer of VR startup Fable to declare AI, not virtual reality, the next big art form. Especially considering that, aside from him, nobody knows what that means. TNW talked to Fable founderEdward Saatchi about his company’s pivot away from
Read MoreIn public, executives wring their hands over automation’s negative consequences for workers. In private, they talk about how they are racing to automate. The Shift: The Hidden Automation Agenda of the Davos Elite Source: NY Times Tech
Read More“I know it’s been a hard day,” Ben Smith, the editor in chief of BuzzFeed News, said in a note to the staff. BuzzFeed’s First Round of Layoffs Puts an End to Its National News Desk Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreA newly released study has found that more people were injured riding standing electric scooters than by riding bicycles or traveling on foot, according to statistics from two Los Angeles hospitals. Documenting injury statistics from Sept. 2017 to August 2018, the study — published this week in the medical journal JAMA Network Open — found
Read MoreIsabelle Kirkwood / BetaKit: Canada-based 7shifts, which uses AI to forecast staffing needs and help manage the workforces of 250K+ restaurants worldwide, raises $10M Series A — Saskatoon-based restaurant labour management platform, 7shifts, announced Thursday it has raised $10 million USD in a Series A funding round led by Napier Park Financial Partners. Canada-based 7shifts,
Read MoreGuilherme Rambo / 9to5Mac: Apple’s first beta of iOS 12.2 for developers includes images of a magazine subscription service, rumored since Apple first bought Texture — There have been rumors about an Apple News subscription service since mid-2018, starting with a report by Bloomberg that said Apple was planing … Apple's first beta of iOS
Read MoreThey walk among us, unseen by polite society. They seem ordinary enough on the outside but they hide a dark secret – sitting beside their keyboards are trackballs instead of mice. We know, it’s hard to believe, but that’s the wacky world we live in these days. But we here at Hackaday don’t judge based
Read MoreA joint production by a Boston theater company and Google hopes to bring high-quality Shakespeare to wider audiences, and new audiences into theaters. ‘Hamlet’ in Virtual Reality Casts the Viewer in the Play Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreThat’s within a few bucks of Black Friday pricing, and definitely one of the best deals to date on this cord-cutter’s friend. The Amazon Fire TV Recast DVR is on sale for 0 – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe robot even has an adorable name — Stan. Gatwick Airport will test robot valets for parking cars – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreThe Big Lebowski might return, Skittles is making a musical, and the Backstreet Boys are auditioning Chance the Rapper. Super Bowl 2019 ads: What we've seen so far – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreDami Lee / The Verge: Tinder settles class action about charging users over 30 double the standard Tinder Plus fee, will pay class members $11.5M+ and stop the practice in California — Tinder last week settled a class action lawsuit for $17.3 million over charging users 30 and older double the standard fee for one
Read MoreJessica Guynn / USA Today: How black women founders, long underestimated and overlooked in tech, are now raising millions in venture capital and forcing Silicon Valley to pay attention — SAN FRANCISCO – In the early days of Zume Pizza, visitors to Julia Collins’ robotic food prep company in Silicon Valley … How black women
Read MoreJulia Alexander / The Verge: Responding to reports of a planned streaming video service, T-mobile hints it will just launch a “snackable content app” on its Metro brand next month — What you’d heard was wrong — T-Mobile is gearing up to launch a free mobile TV streaming service … Responding to reports of a
Read MoreThe Hackaday Superconference is all about showcasing the hardware heroics of the Hackaday community. We also have a peer-reviewed journal with the same goal, and for the 2018 Hackaday Superconference we got a taste of the first paper to make it into our fully Open Access Journal. It comes from Ted Yapo, it is indeed a tale
Read MorePeter Kafka / Recode: Sources: BuzzFeed and Group Nine have discussed merger; companies have ties via BuzzFeed’s chairman Ken Lerer and his son Ben Lerer, CEO at Group Nine — BuzzFeed is cutting costs and getting leaner, but it still wants to get bigger — by exploring a deal with Group Nine. Sources: BuzzFeed and
Read MoreThe British company said it would no longer use the Chinese telecommunications giant’s equipment in some parts of its network in Europe because of political factors. Vodafone, One of World’s Largest Cell Carriers, Halts Buying of Huawei Gear Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreScience: Study of registered voters in 2016: ~6% of all news consumed on Twitter was fake news, 1% of users were exposed to 80% of it and 0.1% shared 80% thereof — There was a proliferation of fake news during the 2016 election cycle. Grinberg et al. analyzed Twitter data by matching Twitter accounts …
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