“Earlier this week, Google Maps suffered the latest in series of embarrassing occurrences. It was discovered that when searching for “n***a house” and “n***a king,” Maps returned a surprising location: the White House. A search for “slut’s house” led to an Indiana women’s dorm.”
“It seems that student privacy is trendy right now. At least among elected officials. Congressional aides are scrambling to write bills that one-up each other in showcasing how tough they are on protecting youth.”
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“Flickr is drawing heat for the auto-tagging feature it launched earlier this month. The “advanced image recognition” system has been making some pretty embarrassing and offensive mistakes, including tagging a portrait of a black man with the word “ape.”
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“Genetically modified organisms hold a lot of promise for creating hardier crops and faster growing fish, but even supporters are concerned about invasive organisms running wild.”
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“A woman in California claims to have been fired from her job after uninstalling an app on her smartphone that her employer used to track her movements 24 hours a day.”
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“In 2011, progressive activist and author Eli Pariser told an unsettling story about the way that social networks could be skewing our view of the world. “I’ve always gone out of my way to meet conservatives,” he said at a TED Talk.”
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“Dr. Martin Breidt is a research technician at the Max Plank Institute for Biological Cybernetics.”