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After two officers came to a Pacific Northwest community, longtime residents began to disappear — a testament to the agency’s quiet embrace of big data.
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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.
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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.
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The ride-sharing giant was the subject of a withering report, but its values and its hard-driven C.E.O. remain in place.
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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.
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Interview with Susan Fowler, the author of a blog post that exposed problematic behaviour during her time at Uber.
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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.
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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.
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Tech companies are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to improve conditions for female employees. Here’s why not much has changed—and what might actually work.