This article summarizes the worries from the findings of multiple studies around the impact of tech on future of work, and discusses how these changes might impact politics as the number of jobs being taken over increases.

How tech and appliance makers are targeting the kitchen with smart home devices in order to deepen ties with customers.

Much of the world uses Google Maps as their primary geographic reference tool. But what happens when multiple nations claim ownership of a disputed territory?

This paper seeks to study how computerized decision-making techniques compare to one another, and what accounts for the differences. Although different algorithms tend to prefer specific formulations of fairness preservations, many of these measures strongly correlate with one another. In addition, fairness interventions might be more brittle than previously thought.

Commercial software is nearly flawless at telling the gender of white men, a study says, but not so for darker-skinned women.

A chart of study predictions about job creation/loss as a result of automation, including when the study was performed, by who, the scale of the study, and predictions.

SamSam Ransomware group targets hospitals, a city council group, and an industrial control system firm in the beginning of 2018. The article provides brief details on the scam.

James Damore, the man fired by Google last year after he wrote a memo arguing that there may be biological reasons why women are underrepresented at Google and other tech companies, has sued his former employer. The suit alleges that Google systematically discriminates against conservative white men.

Article warning about bias and how it can appear. Includes some illustrative examples, and information based on academic research on “algorithmic bias.”