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|| Facial Recognition || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
A study finds that facial recognition software fails to recognize trans and non-binary people, relying on outdated stereotypes to mark gender.
|| Facial Recognition || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
As countries explore the use of facial recognition technology in areas such as national security, governments need to take people’s privacy into account, according to the head of artificial intelligence at the World Economic Forum.
|| Robotics Applications || Media Article || Long (10+ min)
To better understand the role artificial intelligence might play in eldercare, a handful of Trinity researchers, along with a robot named Stevie, moved into a retirement home for months-long stretche to understand what aging people and the staff that care for them might want f
|| Diversity Equity and Inclusion || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
A study finds that teams with at least one female founder tend to raise more capital from investors.
|| Facial Recognition || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
|| Diversity Equity and Inclusion || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
The study highlights that the strongest driver of gender diversity within rising startups is more women.
|| Diversity Equity and Inclusion || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Google has funded a facial recognition project that’s targeting people of color with dubious tactics, hiring temps go out to collect face scans from a variety of people on the street using $5 gift cards as incentive.
|| Diversity Equity and Inclusion || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min)
After two officers came to a Pacific Northwest community, longtime residents began to disappear — a testament to the agency’s quiet embrace of big data.
|| Facial Recognition Future of Work || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
|| Security || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min)
Beijing hopes its social credit system will quickly punish companies accused of wrongdoing. U.S. firms could get hit too.
|| Facial Recognition || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
|| Health and Medical Applications || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Israel plans to combine HMOs’ digital health records that cover most Israelis into a single system for AI and data analytics to tap.
In a small country with digitized records, big data could make medicine cheaper and more effective.
|| Facial Recognition || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Facial recognition technology is drawing scrutiny in a country more accustomed to surveillance than any other Western democracy.
|| General Ethics || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min)
A conversation with Lawrence Lessig about Jeffrey Epstein, MIT, and reputation laundering.
|| Robotics Applications || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
|| Diversity Equity and Inclusion || Blog Post || Short (5 min or less)
The speech given by 2019 Barlow/Pioneer award winner Danah Boyd about reckoning with how she benefited from men whose actions have helped uphold a patriarchal system that has hurt so many people.
|| Internet/Privacy || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Hackers are actively exploiting a critical weakness found in most mobile phones to surreptitiously track the location of users and possibly carry out other nefarious actions, researchers warned.The attacks work by exploiting an interface intended to be used solely by cell carr
|| Misinformation || Short (5 min or less)
The software, which is free and open to the public, scans social media in real time to detect evidence of automated Twitter accounts -- or "bots" -- pushing messages in a coordinated manner, an increasingly common practice to manipulate public opinion by creating the
|| Health and Medical Applications || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
A feature on MIT's Media Lab, including an agricultural project involving food computers.
|| Internet/Privacy || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
As more and more devices get connected to the Internet of Things, researchers say compromising gas pumps has become a hot topic on cyber criminal forums.