Mar 28 ‘Brotopia’ is April’s pick for the PBS NewsHour-New York Times book club By Elizabeth Flock Emily Chang's "Brotopia" is an exposé of the dark, misogynistic side of Silicon Valley. Continue reading
Mar 20 WATCH: ‘Artists are our only hope,’ T Bone Burnett says in critique of big tech By Joshua Barajas Award-winning producer, songwriter and musician T Bone Burnett made a fire-and-brimstone rebuke against big tech “surveillance capitalists” last week at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas, saying Silicon Valley is destroying humanity. Continue reading
Mar 19 Facebook to overhaul ad targeting to prevent discrimination By Barbara Ortutay, Associated Press The changes to Facebook's advertising methods —which generate most of the company's enormous profits — are unprecedented. Continue reading
Mar 12 Trump tweets ‘airplanes are becoming too complex to fly’ By Kevin Freking, Associated Press President Donald Trump lamented the complexity of modern airplanes Tuesday in the wake of two deadly crashes in the past five months, appearing to speculate on the cause of the disasters before aviation experts from the United States and elsewhere… Continue reading
Feb 27 Why robocalls are unstoppable By Raymond Huahong Tu, The Conversation It doesn’t matter if you’ve signed up with the federal Do Not Call Registry, though companies that call numbers on the list are supposed to be subject to large fines. Continue reading
Jan 30 Watch 9:27 Microchipping humans wields great promise, but does it pose greater risk? By Malcolm Brabant An intense debate is underway over the benefits and drawbacks of using microchips, typically relied upon to identify ranch animals and pets, on humans. Advantages include fast communication of critical patient data to medical teams, seamless payment and automatically opened… Continue watching
Jan 09 Watch 6:44 Virtual reality allows neurosurgery patients to ‘tour’ their own brains By Cat Wise Over the past year, UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital has been pioneering a virtual reality technology that enables pediatric patients, and their parents, to “tour” their brains before surgery. Special correspondent Cat Wise reports on how this 3-D platform may help… Continue watching
Dec 24 Facebook suspends accounts over online tactics used in Alabama Senate race By Associated Press A statement from Facebook says the company "recently removed five accounts run by multiple individuals for engaging in coordinated inauthentic behavior on Facebook around the Alabama special election." Facebook says the investigation is ongoing. Continue reading
Dec 14 Why automation won’t put artists out of work just yet By Courtney Vinopal Creative fields are often held up as careers that are least threatened by the advancement of artificial intelligence. But computers and robots have already proven they can contribute to and change the arts, especially in commercial ways. Continue reading
Dec 11 Watch 4:08 Lawmakers grill Google CEO on concerns of bias, election interference and privacy Google CEO Sundar Pichai testified before the House Judiciary Committee in response to criticism over some of the company’s practices. Pichai faced grilling from the right on allegations of anti-conservative bias in search results, as well as questions from the… Continue watching