Researchers say Amazon face-detection technology shows bias
NEW YORK — Facial-detection technology that Amazon is marketing to law enforcement often misidentifies women, particularly those with darker skin, according to researchers from MIT and the University...
View ArticlePuerto Rico lures tech developers as hurricane season looms
ISABELA, Puerto Rico — In the dark and isolating days after Hurricane Maria, people across Puerto Rico invented new ways to communicate: Elderly couples in need of food or water would raise a flag at...
View ArticleThree Coloradans join age discrimination lawsuit against IBM
A group of four former IBM employees, three of whom worked at the company’s facility in Boulder, filed a lawsuit Wednesday accusing the tech giant of violating federal laws prohibiting age...
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IBM purged “gray hairs” and “old heads” as it launched “Millennial Corps”:...
Technology giant IBM targeted “grey hairs” and “old heads” for negative performance reviews so it could oust them from the company as it formed a “Millennial Corps” and focused on hiring “early...
View ArticleFace recognition researcher fights Amazon over biased AI
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Facial recognition technology was already seeping into everyday life — from your photos on Facebook to police scans of mugshots — when Joy Buolamwini noticed a serious glitch: Some...
View ArticleYour iPhone is staying busy while you’re sleeping
It’s 3 a.m. Do you know what your iPhone is doing? Mine has been alarmingly busy. Even though the screen is off and I’m snoring, apps are beaming out lots of information about me to companies I’ve...
View Article1 in 6 ER visits or hospital stays triggers a “surprise” medical bill
WASHINGTON — Roughly one in every six times someone is taken to an emergency room or checks in to the hospital, the treatment is followed by a “surprise” medical bill, according to a study released...
View ArticleAmazon, Microsoft wage war over the Pentagon’s “war cloud”
Amazon and Microsoft are battling it out over a $10 billion opportunity to build the U.S. military its first “war cloud” computing system. But Amazon’s early hopes of a shock-and-awe victory may be...
View ArticleCapital One target of massive data breach
SEATTLE — A security breach at Capital One Financial, one of the nation’s largest issuers of credit cards, compromised the personal information of about 106 million people, and in some cases the hacker...
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Chinese snooping tech spreads to nations vulnerable to abuse
Darko Vojinovic, The Associated PressMembers of a rights group paint a face with makeup to confuse the Huawei surveillance video cameras with face-recognition software in Belgrade, Serbia, in...
View ArticleIn a first, IBM’s computer debater faces off against itself
CAMBRIDGE, England — The chamber hushed as the debate got underway at the Cambridge Union and the teams launched into their carefully crafted opening statements. The topic — whether artificial...
View ArticleKatherine Johnson, pioneering black NASA mathematician, has died at age 101
HAMPTON, Va. — NASA says Katherine Johnson, a mathematician who worked on NASA’s early space missions and was portrayed in the film “Hidden Figures,” about pioneering black female aerospace workers,...
View ArticleCubicle comeback? Pandemic will reshape office life for good
LONDON — Office jobs are never going to be the same. When workers around the world eventually return to their desks, they’ll find many changes due to the pandemic. For a start, fewer people will go...
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“Master,”“slave” and the fight over offensive terms in computing
By Kate Conger, The New York Times Company Anyone who joined a video call during the pandemic probably has a global volunteer organization called the Internet Engineering Task Force to thank for making...
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Colorado’s biggest corporations are investing in saving bees
IBM, Google and other corporations are dedicating budget lines to saving Colorado’s bee population, with hives at their in-state locations, in a business move that supports a critical part of the...
View ArticleLetters: The Nazis were fascists. Period.
The Nazis were fascists. Period. Re: “How one Colorado Republican shaped what students will learn about the Holocaust,” Oct. 12 news story Thinly-veiled political propagandizing has no place in the...
View ArticleBringing AI tools to the workplace requires a delicate balance
By Kevin J. Delaney, The New York Times Company By midyear, all of Morgan Stanley’s thousands of wealth advisers are expected to have access to a new artificial-intelligence-powered chat tool. The...
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