Six ex-Amazon Care employees criticize the company's fast and frugal ways, including prioritizing pleasing patients over providing the best standard of care
‘Amazon Care’ was treating patients long before the company bought One Medical, but its fast and frugal approach has proven a tough fit for some health professionals Tweets: @hypervisible , @histoftec...
Analysis of Google search results for 50+ trans celebrities shows transphobic suggestions, such as “before surgery” or “as a guy”; Google says it fixed an issue
When the world has a question, we Google it. Processing more than three billion searches a day … Tweets: @mpjinstitute , @histoftech , @histoftech , @jenniolsonsf , @histoftech , @histoftech , @histo...
Profile of Chris Gilliard, aka @hypervisible, who has helped coin concepts like “digital redlining” to highlight the impact of tech on marginalized groups
Chris Gilliard grew up with racist policing in Detroit. He sees a new form of oppression in the tech we use every day. Tweets: @willoremus , @ruchowdh , @ethicsoftech , @bostonjoan , @clancynewyork ,...
Elon Musk says Tesla is working on a humanoid robot that will handle “tasks that are unsafe, repetitive or boring”, with a prototype “sometime next year”
Join us to build the future of AI → https://www.tesla.com/ai0:00 … Stephen Shankland / CNET : No one knows when Tesla Bot will arrive. Here are robots you can experience now Jackson Ryan / CNET : Elon...
Twitter introduces Tip Jar, allowing everyone using Twitter in English to send tips, and a limited group, including journalists and experts, to accept tips
here's how to use it Ax Sharma / BleepingComputer : Twitter Tip Jar may expose PayPal address, sparks privacy concerns Prasham Parikh / Android Police : Twitter's new Tip Jar makes it super easy to su...
Facebook's AI model SEER was designed to exclude Instagram images from the EU in its dataset, likely to avoid GDPR violations
Dave Gershgorn / OneZero : Tweets: @histoftech , @samgregory , @kimcrayton1 , and @profcarroll Tweets: Mar Hicks / @histoftech : Facebook's earliest iteration, Facemash, also scraped (stole) pics Zuc...
A person involved in Twitter hack may have gained access to Twitter's internal dashboard using credentials pinned in one of the company's Slack channels
one of whom says he lives at home with his mother ... 19 and lived in the south of England with his mother.” https://www.nytimes.com/... Eric Geller / @ericgeller : Wow. Just seeing this. Twitter says...
Tech platforms, which had mostly resisted calls for strict moderation, are now taking a “harder line” when it comes to moderating content related to COVID-19
and just in time. On coronavirus, they're working proactively to push good information while trying to contain the bad stuff. Thank gd. https://www.nbcnews.com/... April Glaser / @aprilaser : We talke...
Tech platforms, which had mostly resisted calls for strict moderation, are now taking a “harder line” when it comes to moderating content related to COVID-19
and just in time. On coronavirus, they're working proactively to push good information while trying to contain the bad stuff. Thank gd. https://www.nbcnews.com/... Mar Hicks / @histoftech : “Choosing ...
Sources: Google agrees to a worker council in Europe that could have more power to challenge company decisions after a request from 153 employees in 11 offices
Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg : Tweets: @teamcoworker , @brishenrogers , @tedonprivacy , @tri_becca90 , @stan_ds , @rj_gallagher , and @histoftech Tweets: @teamcoworker : “Google employees in Europe cou...