With hate crimes on the rise, the UN takes aim at technology's role in normalising and fostering 'a self-reinforcing vortex of violence'.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres (Image: Michael Sohn/Pool via REUTERS and AAP)
The United Nations is urging governments across...
One early January morning, security researcher Zuk Avraham got a nondescript direct message out of the blue on Twitter: “Hi.” It was from someone named Zhang Guo. The short, unsolicited messaged wasn't too unusual; as the founder of both...
In a rare show of unity, a new poll found that Democrats and Republicans both want to rein in Big Tech. | Spencer Platt/Getty Images Breaking up companies like Amazon and Facebook has rare bipartisan...
The current covid-19 pandemic has shined the spotlight on longstanding health inequities for people of color. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, compared to the general United States population, African Americans are 1.4 times more likely...
Much of the value in the public cloud, especially the hyperscale providers like Azure, is economic. You’re taking advantage of their ability to buy power, network, and hardware at a scale that would have been unimaginable a few years...
A pedestrian wearing a protective mask walks past a GameStop store in the Herald Square area of New York City on November 27, 2020. | Gabriela Bhaskar/Bloomberg/Getty Images How a bunch of Redditors made GameStop’s...
“I don’t plan on opening the app again,” Lorenz told Wired. “I don’t want to support any network that doesn’t take user safety seriously.” Her experience wasn’t a one-off, and since then darker, racist elements have appeared. It seems...
Apple Fitness+ is getting a dose of Dolly. The iPhone maker’s relatively new subscription exercise service, which requires the use of an Apple Watch, is expanding to include outdoor walking exercises led by celebrities, one of whom is country...
Companies such as Color Population Health, Helix OpCo LLC, Invitae Corp, and Sema4 are now using next-generation sequencing technology in genomics. This enables them to perform direct-to-consumer genetic testing. These products can involve either targeted analysis where libraries are...
Microsoft has released Visual Studio 2019 16.9 Preview 3, an update to the company’s signature integrated development environment that offers more command line tools for C++ development as well as enhancements tuned to .NET and XAML. The previous update...
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