“Digital Discrimination: The Case of Airbnb.com”
“Executive Summary — To build trust and facilitate transactions, online marketplaces present information not only about products, but also about the people offering the products.”
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Jul
Monthly Archives: July 2015
31
Jul
“Ubering While Black”
“The comedian Hannibal Buress has a bit in his act about trying to hail a cab in New York as a black man. He walks up to the taxi and tries to open the door, but rather than pick him up, the driver hits the gas and speeds away, with Buress running alongside the cab.”
28
Jul
“Uber can’t be stopped. So what happens next?”
“Last week New York City backed down from a plan to cap the explosive growth of Uber’s vehicle fleet. The mayor’s office declared the deal it reached to be a win-win for both sides, and warned Uber that an eventual cap is still a possibility if it doesn’t comply.”
27
Jul
“The automation myth”
“President Obama has warned that ATMs and airport check-in kiosks are contributing to high unemployment. Sen. Marco Rubio said that the central challenge of our times is “to ensure that the rise of the machines is not the fall of the worker.”
27
Jul
“Presenting the News Explorer”
“The News Explorer has arrived. News Explorer uses the Alchemy API to automatically construct a news information network and present large volumes of news results in an understandable fashion.”
27
Jul
27
Jul
“Hologram Performance by Chief Keef Is Shut Down by Police”
“A performance by the Chicago rapper Chief Keef — or rather, his likeness, beamed live via hologram from California — was shut down by the police on Saturday night in Hammond, Ind.”
Read: Hologram Performance by Chief Keef Is Shut Down by Police
26
Jul
“Twitter is deleting stolen jokes on copyright grounds”
“Let’s face it: coming up with a grade-A tweet isn’t easy. That’s why some people just copy good tweets from other people and act like they came up with the 140-character witticism on their own. This has been going on since the beginning of Twitter.”
18
Jul
“First computers recognized our faces, now they know what we’re doing”
“We haven’t designed fully sentient artificial intelligence just yet, but we’re steadily teaching computers how to see, read, and understand our world.”
Read: First computers recognized our faces, now they know what we’re doing
10
Jul
“Singapore airport to install facial recognition technology in new terminal”
“Singapore’s Changi Airport will install facial recognition technology at the new Terminal 4 to eliminate the need for security staff to manually identity passengers at various check points, according to a report by Today.”
Read: Singapore airport to install facial recognition technology in new terminal