“We can all agree that Snapchat filters have four primary objectives: to make you look hotter, uglier, fun, or weird as shit. But you know what they shouldn’t do? Paint you as a racist caricature ripped straight out of World War II propaganda. Apparently, Snapchat hasn’t gotten that memo.”
Read: Snapchat Doesn’t Think Its ‘Yellowface’ Filter Is Racist
“We can all agree that Snapchat filters have four primary objectives: to make you look hotter, uglier, fun, or weird as shit. But you know what they shouldn’t do? Paint you as a racist caricature ripped straight out of World War II propaganda. Apparently, Snapchat hasn’t gotten that memo.”
Read: Snapchat Doesn’t Think Its ‘Yellowface’ Filter Is Racist
“Not long ago I watched a video in my Facebook timeline—I don’t remember what it was, only that it was something very sad. Whatever it was, I felt overwhelmed, and I put my head down on the bed beside my computer and did about sixty seconds of crying.”
Read: Why the Rumor That Facebook Is Listening to Your Conversations Won’t Die
“There’s a scene in the dystopian scifi novel “Ready Player One” in which the protagonist glimpses the dossier of personal information a major tech company has gathered on him. It includes his height and weight, his browser history, his address — even several years of his school transcripts.”
“Computers are people, too. It’s something we’ve been thinking about over at Technical.ly Brooklyn HQ for a bit and it’s come up in the news recently a few times, most notably last month with the Facebook Trending Topic Imbroglio of 2016.”
Read: ‘Mathwashing,’ Facebook and the zeitgeist of data worship
“On a spring afternoon in 2014, Brisha Borden was running late to pick up her god-sister from school when she spotted an unlocked kid’s blue Huffy bicycle and a silver Razor scooter.”
“Roborace will be the world’s first driverless racing series when it debuts either later this year or early next year, but the organizers have finally unveiled what its custom-made electric cars will look like — and boy do they look wild.”
Read: These are the crazy futuristic cars of Roborace, the world’s first driverless racing series
“It took less than 24 hours for Twitter to corrupt an innocent AI chatbot. Yesterday, Microsoft unveiled Tay — a Twitter bot that the company described as an experiment in “conversational understanding.”
Read: Twitter taught Microsoft’s AI chatbot to be a racist asshole in less than a day
“DeepMind’s stunning victories over Go legend Lee Se-dol have stoked excitement over artificial intelligence’s potential more than any event in recent memory. But the Google subsidiary’s AlphaGo program is far from its only project — it’s not even the main one.”
Read: DeepMind founder Demis Hassabis on how AI will shape the future
“New York City’s specialized public high schools—Stuyvesant, Brooklyn Technical, the Bronx High School of Science and the rest—are the most coveted and competitive schools in the country’s most segregated school system.”
Read: NYC’s Elite Public Schools Have A Diversity Problem. Is Test Prep The Answer?