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Amazon’s Ring blamed hacks on consumers reusing their passwords. A lawsuit says that’s not true. – Plaintiffs suing the company say they created unique passwords but were hacked anyway.
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New research shows what AI can teach us about the human brain – Papers from Google’s DeepMind show what we can learn from AI.
The new MIT report on Jeffrey Epstein raises questions about how much to blame billionaires like Bill Gates
Installing air filters in classrooms has large educational benefits?
Facebook is like sugar — too much is bad for you, says a top Facebook exec. Lots of people have compared Facebook to harmful substances. But they don’t usually work at Facebook.
Bill Gates’s big takeaway from 2019: raise his taxes – The world’s richest person reflects on taxing the rich.
A “new” Amazon waffle maker came with an old crusty-looking waffle already in it – Buying from Amazon is still a crap shoot.
Reddit · 2 weeks ago
Google and Amazon are now in the oil business
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Illinois says you should know if AI is grading your online job interviews – A first-of-its-kind law might give employment candidates more insight into the algorithms that analyze their interviews, but they shouldn’t expect much to change.
Thousands of Google’s cafeteria workers have unionized
Ibraham Samirah’s Virginia zoning reform ends single-family zoning – Vox
With print books often cheaper than ebooks, whose sales stabilized at ~20% of total book sales, a look at the aftermath of Apple's ebook price fixing lawsuit
Techmeme · 3 weeks ago
Amazon wants to patent technology that could identify shoppers by their hands – The system could someday be used in Amazon Go or Whole Foods stores.
Reddit · 3 weeks ago
Tenants sounded the alarm on facial recognition in their buildings. Lawmakers are listening. Imagine being locked out of your home because software selected by your landlord can’t identify your face.
Amazon warehouse workers doing “back-breaking” work walked off the job in protest – Workers lifting hundreds of boxes a day say they fear being fired for missing work, and are demanding time off like other part-time workers.
Reddit · 4 weeks ago
One of Amazon’s first employees says the company should be broken up
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Can monoculture survive the algorithm?
Mike Bloomberg and how the Bloomberg terminal made him a billionaire – Vox
A look at New York City's slow attempts to increase transparency around its use of algorithms, which govern many policy areas, including policing
What’s going on with TikTok, China, and the US government? The wildly popular video app’s ties to China are prompting some US users and politicians to panic.
McKinsey infiltrated the world of global public health
An overview of how US law enforcement is using facial recognition tech, and where critics say there's a need for more transparency and government regulation
90 percent of growth in high-tech jobs happened in just 5 metro areas – As a result, wealth is also being concentrated in those areas.
It’s not just passengers being assaulted in Ubers. Drivers are at risk, too. Ride-share drivers lack employment protections that could keep them safer.
Leadership change at Alphabet is unlikely to mean much to Google employees or users, since Larry Page has not been focused on Alphabet's core business for years
A group of four former Google employees who say they were fired for organizing are filing unfair labor practice charges against the company
Most people are bad at arguing. These 2 techniques will make you better. – Vox
William Barr, Donald Trump, and the post-Christian culture wars – Vox
“Knowledge workers” could be the most impacted by future automation – A new study of artificial intelligence suggests better-paid, better-educated workers might be more impacted by automation than previously thought.
Facebook still isn’t clear about why it won’t take down false political ads. At Code Media on Monday, a vice president at Facebook said the company can’t legally take down political ads. Soon after, Facebook walked those comments back.
America’s sex education system is broken. This chatbot wants to be the solution.
Twitter acknowledges that its new guidance on political and cause-based ads is essentially a rough policy outline with lots of details still to be worked out
How Trump is using Facebook to amplify his fight against impeachment. Facebook is making millions off of impeachment ads from Trump, his allies, and his adversaries.
These uses of CO2 could cut emissions — and make trillions of dollars: From concrete to fuels, CO2 from the air can replace CO2 from the ground.
The government keeps its use of facial recognition tech secret. The ACLU is suing. The ACLU is suing the FBI to find out what the government is doing with facial recognition technology.
What WeWork is giving laid-off employees who aren’t named Adam Neumann
One of Peter Thiel’s venture capital firms has devolved into legal chaos
Amazon tried to buy a new Seattle City Council. It doesn’t look like it worked. Amazon’s money may help defeat its biggest political foe, but its chosen candidates are not expected to have a majority on the city council.
Reddit · 2 months ago