Business, Business / Artificial Intelligence, Formulaic An Algorithm Is Helping a Community Detect Lead Pipes More than six years after residents of Flint, Michigan, suffered widespread lead poisoning from their drinking water, hundreds of millions…
Business, Business / Artificial Intelligence, Settled A Startup Will Nix Algorithms Built on Ill-Gotten Facial Data Late last year, San Francisco face-recognition startup Everalbum won a $2 million contract with the Air Force to provide “AI-driven…
Business, Business / Artificial Intelligence, Job Sites New York City Proposes Regulating Algorithms Used in Hiring In 1964, the Civil Rights Act barred the humans who made hiring decisions from discriminating on the basis of sex…
Business, Business / National Affairs, Journalism One Free Press Coalition Spotlights Journalists Under Attack – January 2021 CPJ’s Impunity Index has shown that, in eight out of 10 cases, the killers of journalists go free. On August…
Business, Business / Tech Culture, Year In Review Yet Another Year of Venture Capital Being Really White To solve that problem, these critics say, investors need to look beyond their own networks, as well as make their…
Business, Business / Transportation, Year In Review The Year of Driving Less—but More Dangerously In theory, bringing society to a screeching halt should curtail traffic deaths. No one’s going to bars and then driving…
Business, Business / Artificial Intelligence, Setting Priorities The Newest Weapon Against Covid-19: AI That Speed-Reads Faxes Alison Stribling has learned a lot about infectious disease since she transferred onto Covid-19 response at the health department in…
Business, Business / Tech Culture Why Did the NSA Go (Virtually) MIA? Plus: A visit to the agency’s headquarters, a license for engineers, and a holiday reprieve. Source link
Business, Business / Transportation, The Upturn Airlines’ Pandemic-Driven Cargo Business Will Keep Flying Airlines have also consolidated routes and eliminated thousands of flights that duplicated the more popular ones several times a day….
Business, Business / Transportation, Privacy Uber Faces a Fine for Refusing to Give Details on Assaults The California Public Utility Commission has slapped Uber with a $59 million fine for refusing to hand over detailed records…