by Fix Society Technical Solutions | Mar 25, 2021 | [Tech News], Security, Wired
The Locus Charter asks companies to commit to 10 principles, including minimizing data collection and actively seeking consent from users.
by Fix Society Technical Solutions | Dec 14, 2020 | [Tech News], Wired
A virtual pet parade, a “social shouting” Slack channel, and Zoom karaoke—these are some of the activities that event planners pulled together after the Covid-19 pandemic canceled in-person gatherings and they searched for virtual options that wouldn’t, well, suck....
by Fix Society Technical Solutions | Dec 13, 2020 | [Tech News], Wired
Artificial intelligence has made stunning strides, but it often needs absurd amounts of data and computer power to get there. Now some AI researchers are focused on making the technology as efficient as possible.Last week researchers showed it is possible to squeeze a...
by Fix Society Technical Solutions | Dec 11, 2020 | [Tech News], Wired
After that experience, Facebook spent endless blood and treasure on identifying upstarts who came up with something that Facebook didn’t do, and then trying to buy them. Ironically, Zuckerberg found himself approaching founders with an eerily similar proposition that...
by Fix Society Technical Solutions | Dec 10, 2020 | [Tech News], Wired
Last week, prominent Google artificial intelligence researcher Timnit Gebru said she was fired by the company after managers asked her to retract or withdraw her name from a research paper, and she objected. Google maintains that she resigned, and Alphabet CEO Sundar...
by Fix Society Technical Solutions | Dec 9, 2020 | [Tech News], Wired
Last year saw a conceptual breakthrough on that front. In a paper titled “The Antitrust Case Against Facebook,” the legal scholar Dina Srinivasan argued that Facebook’s takeover of the social networking market has inflicted a very specific harm on consumers: It has...
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