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Facebook is taking a hard look at racial bias in its algorithms

Vox

Instagram will create an “equity team” charged with tasks like analyzing the enforcement of its harassment policies and studying its algorithms for racial bias, the Wall Street Journal reports. Facebook would not share statistics on the racial diversity of the teams that work on its algorithms and artificial intelligence.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Biology

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Did you know that you could program DNA to behave in certain ways. Green: So originally, like, first fuzzing paper was basically these researchers, throwing just random data at Unix programs, and getting a lot of crashes that way. During numerous Capture the Flag competitions in his day to day work now with computational biology.

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Paranoia about cheating is making online education terrible for everyone

Vox

The system, provided by a service called Proctorio, would rely on artificial intelligence and a webcam to monitor her while she worked. Proctorio uses artificial intelligence to conduct gaze detection, which tracks whether a student is looking away from their screens. Open Sourced is made possible by Omidyar Network.

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List of the world’s top female futurists (Update #5)

Trends in the Living Networks

With a PhD in Planning and Innovation Studies, and a Master’s degree in Architecture, Urban Design and Urban Planning, Karuri-Sebina has a sound knowledge base for her work as Executive Manager of programs at the South African Cities Network. She is also a Consulting Editor of the Journal of Futures Studies from Tamkang University, Taiwan.

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Three takeaways from a visit to TikTok’s new transparency center

The Verge

million to nonprofits and universities using artificial intelligence and data analytics to better understand the coronavirus crisis, and its impact on vulnerable communities. Those systems included PRISM , a broad data collection program that compromised systems at Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, and Facebook — but not Amazon.

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