Interviews with Michael Abrash and Andrew Bosworth on the tech behind Facebook's AR glasses, how Facebook will use the personal data from the glasses, more
Imagine your smartphone morphing to wrap around your eyes. But instead of a dark black screen, now it's see-through. Tweets: @mattk , @harrymccracken , and @hypervisible Tweets: Matt / @mattk : Why d...
Amazon says Echo and Tile devices will become Bluetooth bridges for Sidewalk, its low-bandwidth, long-range wireless protocol, later this year
If You'll Let It David Challis / Android Headlines : Echo & Tile Devices Are Compatible With Amazon Sidewalk Cohen Coberly / TechSpot : Your Echo smart speakers may help Amazon build its Bluetooth-bas...
Many AI ethics advisory boards consist mostly of people based in Europe or the US, which may lead to standards that are biased and insensitive to local cultures
Too many councils and advisory boards still consist mostly of people based in Europe or the United States. Tweets: @dorotheabaur , @swisscognitive , @hypervisible , and @hkanji Tweets: Dorothea Baur /...
Facebook says it will take down a video of Trump suggesting people vote twice in North Carolina “unless it is shared to correct the record”
with significant consequences—for one of the most important elections in recent history. That should not be lost in the dust of who these changes will hurt or benefit. https://www.nytimes.com/... Doom...
Interview with cryptographer Seny Kamara, who argues that to aid marginalized groups, cryptography research must be motivated by specific, on-the-ground needs
Lily Hay Newman / Wired : Tweets: @wired , @senykam , @lokmantsui , and @hypervisible Tweets: @wired : Even when encryption technologies are brought to underserved communities, they arrive retrofitte...
The technocratic language Facebook uses in its takedown reports hides the human trauma caused by material that exists only because Facebook made it possible
These reports obscure a torrent of hate speech and other toxic content — If — you've never read a Facebook … Tweets: @neilturkewitz , @sagelazzaro , @jackiehluo , @funnymonkey , @tressiemcphd , @o...
US law enforcement agencies are getting more savvy about using information collected by smart speakers and other devices as part of criminal investigations
Requests are rising from law enforcement for information on the devices, which can include internet queries, food orders, and overheard conversations. Tweets: @wired , @hypervisible , @zenalbatross , ...
As companies start using AI-software to detect race or ethnicity, often as part of market research, researchers worry it will fuel bias and discrimination
When Revlon Inc. wanted to know what lipstick women of different races and in different countries were wearing, the cosmetics giant didn't need to send out a survey. Tweets: @georgejoseph94 , @evan_gr...
How online sellers, including Amazon and GOAT, are using AI to spot counterfeit goods, with the help of authentication startups like Entrupy
Jackie Snow / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @hypervisible and @stefaniei Tweets: Doomscrolling Eternal / @hypervisible : “Increasingly, the role of spotting counterfeits is being filled by artificial...
Sources: Mark Zuckerberg plans to tell Congress that Facebook's rise is an American success story and regulation only serves to help Chinese companies
or even favoring the latter — is not going to age well. And this isn't a defense of Facebook. April Glaser / @aprilaser : remembering Facebook's previous posture towards China and that if FB was actua...