microsoft engineer complains that company is biased against white men 1%, bias, dystopia, hopelessness, microsoft https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/04/now-its-microsofts-turn-for-an-anti-diversity-internal-revolt/
runaway saudi sisters call on google and apple to pull ‘inhuman’ woman-monitoring app 1984, app, dystopia, ethic, google https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/25/runaway-saudi-sisters-call-for-inhuman-woman-monitoring-app-absher-to-be-pulled-google-apple?CMP=fb_gu&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1556188024
amazon’s system for tracking its warehouse workers can automatically fire them 1984, amazon, dystopia, ethic, hopelessness, surveillance, technology https://www.technologyreview.com/f/613434/amazons-system-for-tracking-its-warehouse-workers-can-automatically-fire-them/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=tr_social&utm_campaign=site_visitor.unpaid.engagement
how retailers like guess are personalizing the shopping experience in real time with contextual targeting 1984, advertising, dystopia, ethic, hopelessness, human guinea pig, privacy https://www.psfk.com/2019/04/data-debrief-contextual-targeting.html
cornell scientists create ‘living’ machines that eat, grow, and evolve dystopia, robot https://thenextweb.com/robots/2019/04/19/cornell-scientists-create-living-machines-that-eat-grow-and-evolve/?utm_campaign=site_visitor.unpaid.engagement&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=tr_social&utm_content=71987670&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8pawv9tISyNX-C6GegvG3kP5Ar2PO1rLqweXPlYP5QuROXq6S7ExnZW4W1hMUB3aKMmKNvTFrxPx82f8Z-30ySYQEmkFoPGZyRBt4t6aKJOFjz_uA&_hsmi=71987670
tsa agents says they’re not discriminating against black women but their body scanners might be 1984, bias, dystopia, hopelessness https://www.propublica.org/article/tsa-not-discriminating-against-black-women-but-their-body-scanners-might-be?utm_content=buffer9d49d&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=buffer
we visited Deliveroo Editions’ latest Singapore kitchen which offers an exclusive way to order your food – here’s what it’s like apocalypse, deliveroo, dystopia, hopelessness https://www.businessinsider.sg/deliveroo-editions-singapore-kitchen-app/
an ai startup has found a new source of cheap labor for training algorithms: prisoners 1984, ai, dystopia, ethic, hopelessness, human guinea pig https://www.technologyreview.com/f/613246/an-ai-startup-has-found-a-new-source-of-cheap-labor-for-training-algorithms/
i trained an ai to copy my voice and it scared me silly ai, dystopia, sound, technology https://thenextweb.com/insights/2018/01/22/i-trained-an-ai-to-copy-my-voice-and-scared-myself-silly/