“WTF?! In San Francisco, Uber has 3x the revenue of the entire prior taxi and limousine industry. WTF?! Without owning a single room, Airbnb has more rooms on offer than some of the largest hotel groups in the world. Airbnb has 800 employees, while Hilton has 152,000.”
“Abortion care services continue to be stonewalled by some of the web’s most visited sites, as these Internet giants charge that abortion is not a family friendly topic.”
“That Google and other companies track our movements around the Web to target us with ads is well known.”
Read: Study Suggests Google’s Ad-Targeting System May Discriminate
“Ad-targeting algorithms created by Google could be guilty of discriminating between internet users, say researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI).”
Read: Google’s algorithms advertise higher paying jobs to more men than women
“The white women known in the 1950s as “Miss Color TV” reinforced longstanding hierarchies of gender and race that were built into generations of technologies.”
“When Brooklyn-native Jacky Alcine logged onto Google Google Photos on Sunday evening, he was shocked to find an album titled “Gorillas,” in which the facial recognition software categorized him and his friend as primates.”
Read: Google Photos Tags Two African-Americans As Gorillas Through Facial Recognition Software
“In May, Google unfurled its new Photos app as the crowning achievement of machine learning capabilities — a service that stores and catalogues your images with computing smarts that can pick out buildings, landscapes, animals, even abstract events like birthdays, on its own.”
Read: ‘Machine Learning Is Hard’: Google Photos Has Egregious Facial Recognition Error
“WASHINGTON: Twitteriffic has added a new feature that will now take better advantage of Twitter’s new quote tweet feature and use facial recognition software to help user frame their shots on iOS. According to thenextweb.”
Read: Twitteriffic adds facial recognition feature in pictures on iOS
“If you haven’t read about it in the Times or heard about it on NPR yet,you are soon going to be replaced by a robot at your job. All the jobs we thought were safe because they required experience and nuance can now be done by computers.”