27
Jul
Author Archives: greg
27
Jul
“Hologram Performance by Chief Keef Is Shut Down by Police”
“A performance by the Chicago rapper Chief Keef — or rather, his likeness, beamed live via hologram from California — was shut down by the police on Saturday night in Hammond, Ind.”
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26
Jul
“Twitter is deleting stolen jokes on copyright grounds”
“Let’s face it: coming up with a grade-A tweet isn’t easy. That’s why some people just copy good tweets from other people and act like they came up with the 140-character witticism on their own. This has been going on since the beginning of Twitter.”
18
Jul
“First computers recognized our faces, now they know what we’re doing”
“We haven’t designed fully sentient artificial intelligence just yet, but we’re steadily teaching computers how to see, read, and understand our world.”
Read: First computers recognized our faces, now they know what we’re doing
10
Jul
“Singapore airport to install facial recognition technology in new terminal”
“Singapore’s Changi Airport will install facial recognition technology at the new Terminal 4 to eliminate the need for security staff to manually identity passengers at various check points, according to a report by Today.”
Read: Singapore airport to install facial recognition technology in new terminal
09
Jul
“The WTF Economy”
“WTF?! In San Francisco, Uber has 3x the revenue of the entire prior taxi and limousine industry. WTF?! Without owning a single room, Airbnb has more rooms on offer than some of the largest hotel groups in the world. Airbnb has 800 employees, while Hilton has 152,000.”
08
Jul
“Google, AdBlade Bar Abortion Clinic From Advertising”
“Abortion care services continue to be stonewalled by some of the web’s most visited sites, as these Internet giants charge that abortion is not a family friendly topic.”
07
Jul
“Study Suggests Google’s Ad-Targeting System May Discriminate”
“That Google and other companies track our movements around the Web to target us with ads is well known.”
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07
Jul
“Google’s algorithms advertise higher paying jobs to more men than women”
“Ad-targeting algorithms created by Google could be guilty of discriminating between internet users, say researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI).”
Read: Google’s algorithms advertise higher paying jobs to more men than women
06
Jul
“‘Color Girls’ : The Human Test Patterns of Color TV”
“The white women known in the 1950s as “Miss Color TV” reinforced longstanding hierarchies of gender and race that were built into generations of technologies.”