“Apple is adding an easy way to quickly disable Touch ID in iOS 11. A new setting, designed to automate emergency services calls, lets iPhone users tap the power button quickly five times to call 911.”
Read: iOS 11 has a ‘cop button’ to temporarily disable Touch ID
“Company tried to dismiss a lawsuit filed by US labor department, claiming that a government attorney may have violated ethics rules in speaking to the Guardian Company tried to dismiss a lawsuit filed by US labor department, claiming that a government attorney may have violated et”
Read: Revealed: Google tried to block media coverage of gender discrimination case
“UK police in the city of Durham, England, are prepared to go live with a predictive artificial intelligence system that will determine whether a suspect should be kept in custody, according to the BBC.”
Read: UK police will start using AI to decide whether suspects should be kept in custody
“UK police in the city of Durham, England, are prepared to go live with a predictive artificial intelligence system that will determine whether a suspect should be kept in custody, according to the BBC.”
Read: UK police will start using AI to decide whether suspects should be kept in custody
“Roughly 85% of corporate executives and board members are white men. This number hasn’t budged for decades, which suggests that white men are continuing to select and promote other white men.”
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“Amanda Reyes was auditioning for her umpteenth acting role in New York City recently when the casting director asked her to “be more ghetto.” It was nothing new.”
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“There’s a rising chorus of concern about how quickly robots are taking away human jobs. Jobs are vanishing much faster than anyone ever imagined.”
Read: A warning from Bill Gates, Elon Musk, and Stephen Hawking
“Google’s Jigsaw unit, as part of a larger effort to battle online trolling, said earlier today that it was releasing a new tool called Perspective, software that uses machine learning to detect harassment and abuse online.”
Read: Google just made its troll-detecting software available to developers
“Amazon has filed a motion to dismiss a search warrant for recordings from an Echo owned by a suspected murderer. Amazon argues that both its users’ requests to Alexa and the response the company produces are protected under the First Amendment.”
Read: Amazon says Alexa’s speech is protected by the First Amendment
“Imagine you’re at a border crossing, and the guard asks you to hand over all of your electronics for screening. The guard then asks that you unlock your device, provide passwords and decryption keys.”