Can We Make Non-Racist Face Recognition?
We talked to experts on face recognition, race and surveillance, and asked them to consider if we could ever remedy the technical, cultural and carceral biases of face recognition.

July 26, 2018 at 07:05AM
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Meet The Wikipedia Editors Who Combat Conspiracy Theories
A group of volunteers are debunking the same harmful conspiracy theories tech platforms struggle to combat.

July 25, 2018 at 06:31PM
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How Silicon Valley Has Disrupted Philanthropy
Local nonprofits are having trouble attracting money from tech donors. The solution? Talk like a start-up.

July 25, 2018 at 04:27PM
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Security Risk Or No, The Soccer Ball Putin Gave To Trump Is Ridiculous As Hell
Putin’s ball could very well be a vector for a cyberattack, but so could just about any object. Here’s a question: why are we putting chips in soccer balls anyway?

July 25, 2018 at 03:17PM
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Reprogrammable Braille Could Be The Future Of E-Readers For The Blind
Scientists at Harvard have developed reprogrammable braille, a method that could allow books printed for the blind to be much smaller.

July 25, 2018 at 02:05PM
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Inside Google’s Shadow Workforce
About half of Google’s workers are contractors who don’t receive the same benefits as direct employees.

July 25, 2018 at 11:44AM
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The World Economy Runs on GPS. If It Fails, We’re Screwed
The world economy runs on GPS, but the small satellite network’s signals are shockingly vulnerable to bugs and interference.

July 25, 2018 at 08:26AM
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Your Next Computer Screen Could Be Holographic
If you’ve ever wished you could recreate the iconic scene in Star Wars, where Luke Skywalker discovers a holographic message of Princess Leia, pretty much kicking off the entire franchise, you can now get a lot closer to that dream.

July 24, 2018 at 05:47PM
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I Built A Head-mounted LiDAR Array That Lets You See The World Like A Dolphin Via Vibrations Sent Through Your Jaw
I’m Andrew Thaler and I build weird things.

July 24, 2018 at 04:45PM
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This Is One Of The Coolest Applications Of Projection Technology We’ve Ever Seen
This is going to be the coolest house on the block for trick-or-treating this year — after the house that gives out full-sized candy bars, of course.

July 24, 2018 at 03:53PM
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