Category: MEDIA AND TECHNOLOGY
Sandra Oh makes history (twice!) at the Golden Globes
Actress Sandra Oh celebrated a milestone night on Sunday: she was not only the first Asian American to co-hosted the Golden Globes, but she also took [...]
Congrats on the new baby. Would you like a DNA screening test?
CNN reports that "every baby born in the United States is given a routine blood test to screen for dozens of inherited medical conditions. Now, the U [...]
Amazon Is Selling Cops Its Facial Recognition Tool. That’s A Bad, Potentially Racist Move.
Facial recognition software often does not properly identify darker-skinned people. As the people “leveraging” the Rekognition technology may or may n [...]
Algorithms are Coming for Their Jobs, so Workers are Teaching Themselves Algorithms
When cybersecurity firm Malwarebytes started automating its quality assurance testing last year, it knew that the move could put more than four do [...]
Can VR Teach Racial Empathy?
1,000 Cut Journey’ is an immersive virtual reality experience in which the viewer becomes Michael Sterling, a black man, encountering racism as a youn [...]
Joy Reid Will Stay on air at MSNBC Amid Outcry Over Alleged anti-gay Posts
Popular MSNBC host Joy Reid will remain on the air amid a controversy over what appear to be old posts expressing anti-gay views on her now-defunct pe [...]
Black Panther Will Be the First Film Shown in Saudi Arabian Cinemas in 35 Years
Black Panther will break Saudi Arabia’s 35-year long cinema ban, becoming the first film publicly shown in theaters in the conservative gulf kingdom s [...]
AI Startup Seeks to Create Unbiased News by Combining Human Intuition With Algorithm-based Research
It’s hard to trust the news in 2018. People rely on non-biased reporting from journalists. If it’s not tainted local news coloring people’s opinions, [...]
Macron on how AI will shape the future, and threaten democracy
Technology has a powerful influence on our identity and society. In a fascinating interview with Wired's Nicholas Thompson, French president Emmanuel [...]
Why It’s So Important for Kids to see Diverse TV and Movie Characters
Television continues to be the main source of media consumption for kids.
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Julie Dobrow, Tufts University; Calvin Gidney, [...]