Viral selfie app ImageNet Roulette demos biases in AI by surfacing labels applied by anonymous workers to a database of 14M photos, used to train AI for 9 years
ImageNet Roulette, a digital art project and viral selfie app, exposes how biases have crept into the artificial-intelligence technologies changing our lives.
Google says it doesn't retain Assistant audio recordings by default and it is increasing privacy protections for the transcription process used with a small set
Senior Product Manager, Google Assistant — We believe you should be able to easily understand how your data is used and why …
Sources: several WeWork directors, including SoftBank members, plan to push for Adam Neumann to step down as CEO
SoftBank officials are among those expected to push for Neumann ouster — A bloc of WeWork directors is planning to push Adam Neumann to step down as chief executive …
Google Play Pass launches as a $4.99/month subscription that gives access to over 350 unlocked Android apps and games that are free of ads and in-app purchases
No ads, no in-app purchases. $1.99 introductory price — Today, Google is launching a new service called “Google Play Pass …
Samsung says Galaxy Fold will go on sale in the US on September 27 for $1,980 and will be available at AT&T, Best Buy, and Samsung stores
Months after it failed to launch, the Galaxy Fold is finally arriving in the United States later this week. Unfortunately, the Galaxy Fold US launch …
Sources: Facebook's competitors are talking to FTC about the company's hardball tactics, some of which Snap compiled in a dossier called Project Voldemort
Antitrust investigation gives competitors chance to air complaints about Facebook's hardball tactics
Report: global sales of robots reached 422K units worth $16.5B in 2018; 74% of global robotics installations were in China, Japan, South Korea, US, and Germany
The International Federation of Robotics (IFR) today released its annual World Robotics Report, which showed an annual global sales value of $16.5 billion in 2018.
A look at Peloton, which may raise $1.2B in this week's IPO and sells $2.3K iPad-equipped stationary bikes and $40/mo. cycling video subscriptions to 510K+ subs
13 reasons this bike has a cult — It makes lazy people like me work out. That's the genius of the Peloton bicycle. Tweets: @joshconstine , @austen , @joshconstine , @joshconstine , @joshconstine , ...
Binance launches fiat-to-crypto and crypto-to-crypto trading in the US, with support for bitcoin, Binance coin, ether, XRP, bitcoin cash, litecoin, and tether
This morning, Binance.US launched a digital assets marketplace. As you've probably guessed, it's the U.S. arm of Binance, the world's top crypto exchange by trading volume.
Cloudflare enables a new “bot fight mode” as a opt-in feature for all accounts, which will frustrate bots via deliberately computationally intensive challenges
Cloudflare is ratcheting up its fight against bots with a new “fight mode,” which it says will frustrate … Tweets: @zackwhittaker Tweets: Zack Whittaker / @zackwhittaker : Exclusive: Cloudflare has a ...
Amazon debuts a feature called Show and Tell, which helps blind and low vision customers with an Echo Show smart display identify common household pantry goods
As part of a continued mission to make its Alexa intelligent assistant more accessible for everyone, Amazon today introduced …
Korean exchange Upbit says it is delisting six “privacy coins” including Monero, Dash, and Zcash following June's FATF guidance and a similar delisting by OKEx
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Facebook will sunset its group stories feature, available globally since December of last year, on September 26
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Vouch Insurance, an online platform offering insurance policies tailored for early-stage tech start-ups, raises $24.5M Series A
Vouch Insurance, a new insurance company focused on early stage tech start-ups, has announced its launch, with capacity for its policies to be provided by Munich Re.
Profile of Rideshare Drivers United, a group of Uber and Lyft drivers in California who played a key role in getting recent gig economy labor legislation passed
New York Times : Tweets: @kateconger and @nytimesbusiness Tweets: Kate Conger / @kateconger : Uber & Lyft use tech to connect riders and drivers, but drivers are often isolated, which keeps them from...
Der Spiegel: US dollar could make up 50% of the basket of currencies backing Libra, followed by 18% of euro, 14% yen, 11% British pound, and 7% Singapore dollar
Rental property platform AvantStay, which owns and runs 150 high-end properties and focuses on group travel, raises $20M Series A led by 3L Capital
Samson Amore / Los Angeles Business Journal :
Canada's state pension fund invests CAD$53M in jobs website Neuvoo; Neuvoo operates in 77 countries and has annual revenues of CAD$75M+
Cagan Koc / Bloomberg :
Apple Arcade may break the iOS game industry's risk-averse focus on in-app purchases, promoting games with higher quality than free-to-play games
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JD.com launches Jingxi, its online group-buying service focused on China's lower-tier cities and rural areas, to compete with Pinduoduo
Wency Chen / KrASIA :
Streaming services are gambling big on old shows, like AT&T's $1B for Big Bang Theory and Netflix's $500M for Seinfeld, with no way to know their actual worth
without any ads to defray the cost.” $DIS $NFLX https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
AllinMD Orthopaedics Hospital, a China-based online platform to match patients with orthopaedics hospitals and doctors, raises $100M Series B
Tracy Qu / South China Morning Post :
The number of $5M+ seed rounds in the US has risen steadily, from 45 in 2014 to 180 in 2018, but the trend may be cooling off, with 110 such rounds in 2019 YTD
Joanna Glasner / Crunchbase News :
Legalist, which funds lawsuits for a cut of settlements based on algorithmically calculated chances of winning, raises a $100M legal fund, ~10x its first one
Connie Loizos / TechCrunch :
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Zoho CRM Plus in 2025: A year of thoughtful CX improvements
2025 marked 11 years of building a customer experience platform designed to support organizations as customer expectations, channels …
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