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Working From Home Guide

Before COVID-19 hit, the option of working from home was available to only 7 percent of the U.S. workforce, mostly highly paid white collar workers. That percentage has increased more than nine-fold to 66 percent…

Police Wrongly Arrested a Black Man Using Racist Facial Recognition Technology

Image: Bill Pugliano, Getty In a spectacularly rare admission of likely very common fuckery, police copped to using face recognition to make a wrongful arrest, according to the ACLU, confirming a long-suspected but nearly-impossible-to-prove practice….

Police and Big Tech Are Partners in Crime. We Need to Abolish Them Both

For the past few decades, there have been constant warnings that our technological developments are threatening to outpace our civilization’s ability to adapt to and contain them. Some of today’s loudest alarms are being rung…

Eyes in the Sky

It’s 3: 13 a.m., and Radio Inspector Ashok Kumar turns around to look at his computer. His face stiffens. He zooms in on the screen and squints at an unauthorized SUV crossing a pontoon bridge….

Live Stream Like a Pro – How to Captivate Your Audience with a Live Video

This article has been contributed by Amanda Smith. With videos dominating content on social media, live streaming is becoming an important marketing tool. Live streaming has grown so big that 47% of the global audience…

The U.S. Just Undercut Its Mission to Support Internet Freedom Worldwide

The U.S. government program may not be a household name, but it helps people fight authoritarian repression and protect themselves from extremist attacks. Pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong on June 12. Anthony Wallace/Getty Images Last…

Donna Auguste #ShapeTheWorld @INWED1919 #INWED20

In honor of International Women in Engineering Day 2020, we celebrate the impressive career of Donna Auguste. From electrical engineering student facing obstacles at every turn, to CEO of a of a multi-million dollar company…

From Recycling Bottles For Cash To Tech Ceo: Meet The Latinx Founder Building A $100 Million Tech Hub In California’s Gritty Central Valley

The first in her family to go to college, Irma Olguin returned home to Fresno intent on using her skills to uplift her community. Her Bitwise Industries has since landed $27 million in venture funding and…

Technology and innovation: Building the superhuman agent

Researchers, academics, and innovative organizations have produced a seemingly never-ending wave of tech-based breakthroughs that keep resetting the bar for customer care. The use cases for artificial intelligence, automation, and analytics in the contact center…

Business Highlights

___ Luxury fashion challenged to confront racist attitudes MILAN (AP) — Luxury fashion got a whole lot of blowback when the brands lined up social media posts to show solidarity with Black Lives Matters protests….

Aerospace Engineer Aisha Bowe Develops ‘Lingo’ Coding Kit For At-Home Learning

via AfroTech “The idea of Lingo is to make technology accessible for all by introducing students to software, hardware and engineering concepts in a really easily approachable way,” said Bowe, who previously worked at NASA….

Narrative Collapse

“Upon this gifted age, in its dark hour,Rains from the sky a meteoric showerOf facts . . . they lie unquestioned, uncombined.Wisdom enough to leech us of our illIs daily spun; but there exists no…

Breakingviews

HONG KONG (Reuters Breakingviews) – As the Covid-19 epidemic began to peak in Asia, Piyush Gupta tried to boost morale for his quarantined workforce. The chief executive of Singaporean bank DBS led his management team through a parody version of Gloria Gaynor’s disco…

A beginner’s guide to natural language processing and generation

This article is part of Demystifying AI, a series of posts that (try to) disambiguate the jargon and myths surrounding AI. 20 years ago, if you had a database table containing your sales information and…

How to Create Your Own Successful Podcast

My favorite podcast, Fresh Air with Terry Gross, from National Public Radio’s WHYY in Philadelphia, has featured many well-known guests, from Hillary Clinton to comedy legend Mel Brooks. But what draws me in is Gross’s warm rapport…

The Best CRM Software for 2020

PCMag editors select and review products independently. We may earn affiliate commissions from buying links, which help support our testing. Learn more. Customer relationship management (CRM) tools continue to transcend their customer support and contact…

‘The Computer Got It Wrong’: How Facial Recognition Led To A False Arrest In Michigan

By choosing “I agree” below, you agree that NPR’s sites use cookies, similar tracking and storage technologies, and information about the device you use to access our sites to enhance your viewing, listening and user…

Police Wrongly Arrested a Black Man Using Racist Facial Recognition Technology

Image: Bill Pugliano (Getty) In a spectacularly rare admission of likely very common fuckery, police copped to using face recognition to make a wrongful arrest, according to the ACLU, confirming a long-suspected but nearly-impossible-to-prove practice….