Intel became the latest tech company to report diversity statistics Tuesday, sharing a mixed bag of annual numbers that included small gains in some areas, relatively flat numbers of Black employees and a decline in female representation in the U.S. Axios reports: Women made up a bit more than a quarter of Intel’s employee headcount, seeing a tiny drop in the…
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Mobilewalla Used Cellphone Data To Estimate the Demographics of Protesters
An anonymous reader quotes a report from BuzzFeed News: On the weekend of May 29, thousands of people marched, sang, grieved, and chanted, demanding an end to police brutality and the defunding of police departments in the aftermath of the police killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. They marched en masse in cities like Minneapolis, New York, Los Angeles, and…
NASA names headquarters building for ‘hidden figure’ Mary Jackson
NASA is recognizing one of its “hidden figures” by naming its headquarters in Washington, D.C. after Mary Jackson, the first African American female engineer to work at the space agency. Source: https://www.livescience.com/mary-jackson-hidden-figure-nasa-headquarters.html
Google’s hate speech-detecting AI appears to be racially biased
AIs that spot abusive online content are up to twice as likely to identify tweets as offensive when by people who identify as African American Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2213064-googles-hate-speech-detecting-ai-appears-to-be-racially-biased/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Supreme Court To Consider Racial Discrimination Case Against Comcast
The Supreme Court will consider whether a black television producer can pursue racial discrimination claims against Comcast for declining to carry his programming channels on its cable system (Warning: source paywalled; alternative source). The Wall Street Journal reports: The Comcast case stems from the cable operator’s decision not to carry Pets.TV, Recipes.TV and other channels from Entertainment Studios Networks Inc. The…
Schools keep teaching slavery and civil rights history in ways that traumatize black students
Source: https://www.vox.com/identities/2019/4/19/18507873/arizona-school-segregation-lesson-slavery-civil-rights-history…
Some AI just shouldn’t exist
Source: https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/4/19/18412674/ai-bias-facial-recognition-black-gay-transgender…