“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.”

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“Originally published at blog.adatao.com.Follow me on Twitter to keep informed of interesting developments on these topics. Or so Aram Harrow, an MIT physics professor, counter-intuitively argues in “Why now is the right time to study quantum computing”.”

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“There’s more work to do,” said Facebook’s Global Director of Diversity Maxine Williams, who issued a straight-out-of-How-to-Lie-With-Statistics diversity update on Thursday that essentially consisted of a handful of bar charts labeled with only percentages for select measures of the social networking giant’s current demographics.”

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“In ReForm, a new franchise from The Creators Project, we meet the artists creating and re-appropriating the latest technologies in various areas of creative expression. Big poop and art are converging in electrifying ways. In our new video, The Creators Project talks to data artists— R.”

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