Why computer voices are mostly female
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The article looks at the possible reasons why computer voices skew female, inluding biology, history, and casting.
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More women founders equals more women in executive roles
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The study highlights that the strongest driver of gender diversity within rising startups is more women.
Data Show that Gender-Inclusive Founding Teams Have Greater Success in Fundraising and Innovation
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A study finds that teams with at least one female founder tend to raise more capital from investors.
Google using dubious tactics to target people with ‘darker skin’ in facial recognition project: sources
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Google has funded a facial recognition project that’s targeting people of color with dubious tactics, hiring temps go out to collect face scans from a variety of people on the street using $5 gift cards as incentive.
Facing the Great Reckoning Head-On
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The speech given by 2019 Barlow/Pioneer award winner Danah Boyd about reckoning with how she benefited from men whose actions have helped uphold a patriarchal system that has hurt so many people.
Fitbits and other wearables may not accurately track heart rates in people of color
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The potential inaccuracies have broad implications for the growing body of scientific research that relies on these wearables, and it begs asking and whether implicit prejudices are shaping their development.
Women are better at coding than men—if they hide their gender
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A group of computer science students at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and North Carolina State University examined how gender impacts the acceptance of contributions on the open source code repository site GitHub.
With her blog post about toxic bro-culture at Uber, Susan Fowler proved that one person can make a difference
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James Damore has sued Google. His infamous memo on women in tech is still nonsense.
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James Damore, the man fired by Google last year after he wrote a memo arguing that there may be biological reasons why women are underrepresented at Google and other tech companies, has sued his former employer.
The Actual Science of James Damore's Google Memo
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The science in Damore’s memo is still very much in play, and his analysis of its implications is at best politically naive and at worst dangerous.