“This is a part of series of discussions around the release of the #ProjectDiane report, a report on digitalundivided’s proprietary research study about the state of Black women in tech entrepreneurship in the United States. The report will be released on Feb 9th, 2016.”
“Say hello to a brand new Twitter. The company is planning to introduce an algorithmic timeline as soon as next week, BuzzFeed News has learned.”
Read: Twitter To Introduce Algorithmic Timeline As Soon As Next Week
“Just over a year after Michael Brown’s death became a focal point for a national debate about policing and race, Ferguson and nearby St. Louis suburbs have returned to what looks, from the outside, like a kind of normalcy.”
Read: In the aftermath of Ferguson, St. Louis cops embrace crime-predicting software
“Nate Parker broke records last week when his Nat Turner slave revolt film Birth of a Nation was picked up by Fox Searchlight for $17.5 billion.”
Read: Slavery Stories Can Be Great But We’re Rarely the Ones Telling Them
“A Muslim woman has filed a lawsuit against the Associated Press and AP photographer Mark Lennihan over a photo of her wearing a headscarf while sitting in a Starbucks. The image was sold as a stock photo and used in an opinion column that asked Muslim women not to wear the hijab.”
Read: Muslim Woman Sues Associated Press Over Photo of Her Wearing a Headscarf
“Google has taken a brilliant and unexpected step toward building an AI with more humanlike intuition, developing a computer capable of beating even expert human players at the fiendishly complicated board game Go.”
Read: A Google DeepMind Algorithm Uses Deep Learning and More to Master the Game of Go
“Microsoft’s brain is now available for anyone to use in their apps. The company has open sourced the artificial intelligence framework it uses to power speech recognition in its Cortana digital assistant and Skype Translate applications.”
Read: Microsoft Open Sources Its Artificial Brain to One-Up Google
“On a recent, chilly Sunday morning, children ranging in age from 4 to 6 waited with their parents in the cafeteria of a Brooklyn school. Each wore a name tag.”
Read: To Be Young, ‘Gifted’ And Black, It Helps To Have A Black Teacher
“Face recognition, once the preserve of the few, the likes of intelligence and security services, is now made available to the masses as well, thanks to OpenFace.”
“Google wants to teach you deep learning — if you’re ready that is. The tech giant has launched a free course explaining the machine learning technique that underpins so many of its services.”
Read: Google just published a free, three-month course on deep learning