Investigation finds that Amazon's Rekognition frequently misgenders trans, queer, and nonbinary individuals by design, further alienating a marginalized group
In 2017, the Washington County Sheriff's Office, just outside Portland, Oregon, wanted to find a man covered in dollar bills. Tweets: @jezebel , @annamerlan , @esjayxx , @fittsofalexis , @jezebel , @j...
How Securus' JPay makes millions via monopoly granted by prisons to charge inmates and their family and friends exorbitant per-message fees for email services
For companies like JPay, the business model is simple: Whatever it costs to send a message, prisoners and their families will find a way to pay it. Tweets: @issielapowsky , @wired , and @fittsofalexis...
Interview with Baidu CEO Robin Li and others on how the company plans to dominate AI, especially in Asia, helped along by China's desire to be AI world leader
Jessi Hempel / Wired : Tweets: @wired , @baidu_inc , @jessiwrites , and @fittsofalexis Tweets: @wired : “In human history, humans invented tools, and then had to learn how to use them. In the future,...
Facebook Live is increasingly being used by conservative media personalities instead of talk radio, where some video broadcasts get millions of viewers
How the rough-around-the-edges live-streaming tool became the perfect incubator for conservative news in the Trump age. Tweets: @backchnnl , @mediatwit , @paconner , @fittsofalexis , @stevenlevy , and...
Profile of Debra Cleaver, founder of Vote.org, the Y Combinator-backed nonprofit using text messages to increase voter turnout
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