Tech
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Does Facebook still sell discriminatory ads?
In May, a Wisconsin health care agency, Tenderness Health Care, posted a job ad on Facebook looking for personal care workers. According to...
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Google says it’s going to sell ethics advice to AI companies
Google‘s working on a service that would provide ethics consulting for companies building AI solutions. According to a report from Wired, the...
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What air travel might look like in 2050
If the aviation industry was a country, it would rank among the world’s top ten emitters of carbon dioxide (CO₂). Aviation emissions have risen...
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Pardon the Intrusion #24: The clock is TikToking
Subscribe to this bi-weekly newsletter here! Welcome to the latest edition of Pardon The Intrusion, TNW’s bi-weekly newsletter in which we...
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What herd immunity looks like in a maximum security prison
Coronavirus in Context is a weekly newsletter where we bring you facts that matter about the COVID-19 pandemic and the technology trying to stop...
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Why ‘human-like’ is a low bar for most AI projects
Show me a human-like machine and I’ll show you a faulty piece of tech. The AI market is expected to eclipse $300 billion by 2025. And the vast...
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Facebook has been barely impacted by big advertisers’ boycott — here’s why
Facebook has faced a lot of criticism over the years for failing to moderate hate speech. Its policies have come under increasing scrutiny in...
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Here’s why IT departments need predictive analytics
Increasing automation and digitization is inevitable. More companies are transferring their operations to IT systems, and more of these...
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How to build interactive data visualizations using Plotly and Python
Python is great for data exploration and data analysis and it’s all thanks to the support of amazing libraries like numpy, pandas, matplotlib,...
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Is this Amazon review bullshit?
Rebecca Jones, of London, recently pulled up Amazon.co.uk to search for a phone adapter. She was reading through the reviews for one she was...
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GitHub buried a data archive at the North Pole in case post-apocalyptic society needs help
Dear people of the future: we’re sorry for whatever horrible thing we did that caused the apocalypse (was it nukes? climate change? killer...
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What’s different about the 2020 Census?
The U.S. Constitution mandates that every 10 years the Census Bureau count every person living in the United States. The results have huge...
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US surveillance company Palantir nabs £1M UK COVID-19 contract
In for a penny, in for a pound. The UK yesterday revealed US surveillance company Palantir had secured a £1 million contract renewal to continue...
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Here’s how to manage your remote worker’s device security
One of the biggest consequences of COVID-19 for enterprises beyond 2020 will be the acceleration of the trend to working the majority of the...
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How Ford is making sure its F150 remains the most popular truck ever
This article was originally published by Michael Coates on Clean Fleet Report, a publication that gives its readers the information they need to...
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BMW’s feature subscription service is anti-consumer rubbish
Yesterday, Bavarian automaker BMW announced that it’s going to start offering some vehicle features as paid for options as part of its in-car...