“Arizona State University is addressing society’s dramatic changes in science, technology and innovation with a new school that will train students to take an active role in shaping a future they would want to inhabit.”
“The tech industry has a problem with women. Despite the industry’s rapid growth, the percentage of female workers has actually decreased, from 35 percent in 1990 to just 26 percent today.”
Read: Google X Roboticist Speaks Out on Tech’s Gender Crisis (Video)
“Marvel’s effort to encourage diversity on its pages is still going strong. Entertainment Weekly reports that the comics company now plans on launching a new title this fall that doesn’t star an already popular white superhero.”
Read: Marvel’s next female superhero is a little girl with a dinosaur
“Apple has released its second diversity report, showing small improvements in its hiring of women and minorities. Apple’s overall makeup has swayed by 1 percent in the past year, so that women now make up 31 percent of the company.”
Read: Tim Cook says Apple has ‘a lot more work’ to do on diversity
“Friends often ask for copies of photos you took of them at gatherings, and Apple wants to make it less of a hassle to send those images. The company has developed a new photo sharing system that uses face recognition to automatically figure out who’s in your shots and have the photos sent to them.”
Read: Apple Working on Using Face Recognition to Simplify Photo Sharing
“Drunk commuters tumbling into trains is a serious issue in Japan. In 2013 there were 221 cases of passengers getting hit by trains while either on the platform or having fallen onto the tracks, with 60 percent of these caused by drunkenness.”
Read: Japanese railway cameras automatically spot drunk commuters to save their lives
“The Yale Law School Information Society Project is seeking abstracts of papers for a conference on big data and algorithmic accountability to be held on April 1-2, 2016. The best papers will be considered for inclusion in a special issue of the Yale Journal of Law and Technology (YJoLT).”
“Are you a “haha,” “hehe,” or “lol” person? Typically I’m an “lol” girl who mashes her keyboard with “HAHAHAHhahajakakjahaahkajkjjsdhfkajdsfk” to convey real, body-quaking laughter. If you thought your preference for online laughter was meaningless, think again.”
“On Monday, the Internet went wild over a new study about ice-cold office temperatures. After all, what desk jockey can’t relate to the sensation of shivering indoors when it’s a solid 40 degrees hotter outside?”
“A new USC study has found that women had less than one-third of the speaking roles in the top-grossing films between 2007 and 2014 — another indication of the extent of Hollywood’s longstanding gender and diversity problems.”
Read: New facts on film’s ‘epidemic of invisibility’ for women, minorities