Before joining Google in 2018, Gebru worked with MIT researcher Joy Buolamwini on a project called Gender Shades that revealed face analysis technology from IBM and Microsoft was highly accurate for white men but highly inaccurate for Black women....
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images A vote on Thursday is the latest flashpoint in the debate over the proper role for billionaire philanthropy. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s adopted hometown of San Francisco took the first step on...
On Thursday morning, after an outpouring of support for Gebru on social media, Dean sent an internal email to Google’s AI group with his account of the situation. He said that Gebru’s paper “didn’t meet our bar for publication”...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology A week of workshops, lab visits, and pairings matched Indigenous delegates with relevant labs and researchers across MIT. ...
Gauging the future of open source, GitHub this week said it expects the number of software developers using its platform, currently 56 million, to grow to 100 million developers within five years.In GitHub’s 2020 State of the Octoverse report,...
Salesforce has re-architected its underlying infrastructure to make all of its CRM solutions run in the public cloud as part of a program it calls Hyperforce.Hyperforce may not have been Salesforce’s headline announcement during this year’s Dreamforce—the CRM giant’s...
Specs: Intel Core i7, 8 GB RAM, 512 GB SSD, 4K ScreenThis deal is for the previous XPS 13 (8/10, WIRED Recommends) so it lacks the edge-to-edge 16:10 display of the 2020 model, but it's still a very capable...
Federal agencies routinely buy cellphone location data from private companies. | Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images Private companies collect location data on millions of Americans and provide it to the DHS, IRS, FBI, and DEA —...
Oracle is combining OLTP (online transaction processing) and OLAP (online analytical processing) services in its open source MySQL database in the Oracle Cloud, via Oracle MySQL Database Service with the MySQL Analytics Engine.With this Oracle Cloud service being introduced...
As businesses of all sizes welcome a fearful and anxious workforce back to the office, they are simultaneously challenged with ensuring a safe work environment. The stark reality facing business owners still navigating the covid-19 pandemic is the diligence...
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