“France is launching the world’s largest startup campus in a converted railway depot in Paris, and it’s keeping the door open for those from underprivileged backgrounds.”
Read: France’s new startup campus is focused on fostering entrepreneurs with diverse backgrounds
“We’re very excited to announce the launch of our case study series on computational propaganda in 9 different countries. The Computational Propaganda Research Project at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, has researched the use of social media for public opinion manipulation.”
“A new report from USA Today found that drones have been used more than a dozen times to fly contraband into federal prisons over the last five years, as scattered reports suggest the smuggling operations have proven popular.”
““Google is a digital truth serum,” Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, author of Everybody Lies, told me in a recent interview. “People tell Google things that they don’t tell to possibly anybody else, things they might not tell to family members, friends, anonymous surveys, or doctors.””
Read: Persuasive proof that America is full of racist and selfish people
“Facial recognition systems have made huge technological leaps in recent years — offering definitive identification in seconds, from as far as 350 meters away — but there’s one scenario where they still fall short: the car.”
Read: Feds look to experimental light-field cameras to ID drivers at the border
“Airbnb hosts have already been found to discriminate against guests with “black-sounding” names, and now it sounds like host discrimination extends to guests with disabilities as well. Guests who didn’t disclose a disability received “pre-approval” from an Airbnb host 74.”
Read: Airbnb hosts reject guests with disabilities more often, researchers say
“Lyft published its first diversity report today, revealing numbers that were slightly better than its rival Uber and the tech industry as a whole.”
Read: Lyft’s diversity numbers are better than Uber’s, but only slightly