The Tech Transparency Project’s report saw young boys interested in videogames bering served more gun video in their recommendations.
Facebook whistleblower, Frances Haugen, has revealed herself while unpacking some of illicit practices of the company.
We chat to Ziad Sultan, senior director of Product for Personalisation, about how Spotify’s algorithm powers its recommendations.
InfoShield is a newly developed algorithm from a team of scientists and researchers aimed at helping identify victims of human trafficking.
Twitter has enlisted data scientists and engineers to investigate the “unintentional harms” its algorithm poses and publish the findings.
This is up from the 9 million YouTube removed during the same period last year, as the platform leaned more heavily on its algorithm.
Driven by the BLM movement and recent anti-racism protests, Facebook is finally looking at its algorithm to find out if it is racially biased.
Why is Apple’s credit card giving men higher credit limits than women? The algorithm according to a representative.
An alogrithm trained to detect deepfakes could help or hinder the fight against minsinformation.
It won’t do anything to change the new algorithm, but it’ll help you not miss posts from your favourite accounts.
Bistro is a high-tech feeding station that uses facial recognition
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