Tag: software studies

• Gender Shades

  June 20, 2020

  How well do IBM, Microsoft, and Face++ AI services guess the gender of a face? Explore Results MIT Media Lab Press Kit https://gendershades.org/ more ›

• Here’s how Alexa, Google Assistant, and Siri answer the question, ‘Do black lives matter?’

  June 9, 2020

  Digital assistants from Amazon, Apple, and Google state their support for the Black Lives Matter movement when prompted (via Business Insider). https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/8/21284546/apple-siri-amazon-alexa-google-assisant-black-lives-matter-ai-response more ›

• The World’s Livestream Queen Can Sell Anything

  June 8, 2020

  Huang Wei can sell anything. For instance: In April, Huang—known professionally as Viya—sold a rocket launch for around 40 million yuan ($5.6 million). https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2020-viya-china-livestream-shopping/ more ›

• City Brain

  May 31, 2020

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• Introducing the AI Powered State

  May 31, 2020

  Our collection of essays aim to give policymakers a deeper understanding of how China is innovating with artificial intelligence (AI) in public services, challenging current misconceptions and illuminating nuances in… more ›

• Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield on competing with Microsoft, the future of work, and managing all those notifications

  May 30, 2020

  We and our partners use cookies to personalize your experience, to show you ads based on your interests, and for measurement and analytics purposes. By using our website and our… more ›

• Federated Analytics: Collaborative Data Science without Data Collection

  May 30, 2020

  Federated learning, introduced in 2017, enables developers to train machine learning (ML) models across many devices without centralized data collection, ensuring that only the user has a copy of their… more ›

• Epic Games : The most important, least understood company of the future

  May 27, 2020

  Whether you’re in media, technology, architecture, armed services, or healthcare, you need to understand Epic Games and game engines. Yes, Fortnite is an enormously popular and innovative hit ‘game’, and… more ›

• Neofeudalism: The End of Capitalism?

  May 24, 2020

  IN CAPITAL IS DEAD, McKenzie Wark asks: What if we’re not in capitalism anymore but something worse? The question is provocative, sacrilegious, unsettling as it forces anti-capitalists to confront an… more ›

• How the biggest consumer apps got their first 1,000 users – Issue 25

  May 18, 2020

  Hello, and welcome to a free monthly edition of my newsletter. I’m Lenny, and each week I tackle reader questions about product, growth, working with humans, and anything else that’s… more ›