by Fix Society Technical Solutions | Aug 29, 2020 | [Tech News], Wired
AB979 is a robust approach to a long-standing problem but raises a complicated question: Who counts as an underrepresented minority? The bill defines the category as someone who “self-identifies as Black, African American, Hispanic, Latino, Asian, Pacific Islander,...
by Fix Society Technical Solutions | Aug 28, 2020 | [Tech News], Wired
Companies pay cloud computing providers like Amazon, Microsoft, and Google big money to avoid operating their own digital infrastructure. Google’s cloud division will soon invite customers to outsource something less tangible than CPUs and disk drives—the rights and...
by Fix Society Technical Solutions | Aug 25, 2020 | [Tech News], Wired
“One wonders if the vision of a rapid, overwhelming, swarm-like robotics technology is really consistent with a human being in the loop,” says Ryan Calo, a professor at the University of Washington. “There’s tension between meaningful human control and some of...
by Fix Society Technical Solutions | Aug 25, 2020 | [Tech News], Wired
In February, a lobbyist friend urged Erik Sartorius, the executive director of the Kansas League of Municipalities, to look at a newly introduced bill that would affect cities. The legislation involved “personal delivery devices”—robots that, as if in a sci-fi movie,...
by Fix Society Technical Solutions | Aug 24, 2020 | [Tech News], Wired
On August 2, an anonymous TikTok account that posts jokes and memes from a conservative perspective called @the.republican.hub uploaded an unusually somber video for its 57,000 followers. In the clip, an animated elephant moves its trunk up and down to the beat of...
by Fix Society Technical Solutions | Aug 23, 2020 | [Tech News], Wired
Amazon doesn’t provide granular data on what police are seeking, but Douglas Orr, head of the criminal justice department at the University of North Georgia, says police now look for smart home data as routinely as data from smartphones. Data on a smartphone often...
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