Facebook mistakenly labels black men 'primates'
Facebook on Friday said it disabled its topic recommendation feature after it mistook Black men for "primates" in video at the social network.
Sep 4, 2021
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Telecom
Is your phone really listening to your conversations? Well, turns out it doesn't have to
Have you ever chatted with a friend about buying a certain item and been targeted with an ad for that same item the next day? If so, you may have wondered whether your smartphone was "listening" to you.
Jun 21, 2021
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Browsing recommended books on Amazon can lead to extremist rabbit hole
Amazon's book recommendation algorithms that help customers discover new titles may have a dark side.
Apr 29, 2021
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Machine learning & AI
A study finds gender bias in music recommendation algorithms
Although the problem of gender discrimination is already found in the music industry, music recommendation algorithms would be increasing the gender gap. Andrés Ferraro and Xavier Serra, researchers of the Music Technology ...
Apr 20, 2021
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Computer Sciences
Algorithm-generated music recommendations may be least accurate for hard rock listeners
Listeners of high-energy music such as hard rock and hip-hop may be given less accurate music recommendations by music recommender systems than listeners of other non-mainstream music, according to research published in the ...
Mar 29, 2021
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Researchers develop a system that can recommend personalized and healthy recipes
Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and IBM Research in New York have recently created pFoodReQ, a system that can recommend recipes tailored around the preferences and dietary needs of individual users. This ...
Energy & Green Tech
Subseasonal and seasonal forecasts can help the EU speed up the transition to renewable energy
By using subseasonal and seasonal forecasts, energy companies can improve their management of weather-related risk and potentially increase their profits. Such forecasts can thus contribute to speeding up the transition to ...
Nov 20, 2020
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Software developed to help programmers prototype graphic user interfaces
A new artificial intelligence (AI) system has been developed to help ordinary untrained people to design and create applications and software for smartphones and personal computers. With the help of this system, non-designers ...
Nov 20, 2020
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Digging your own digital grave: How should you manage the data you leave behind?
Throughout our lifetimes we consume, collate, curate, host and produce a staggering quantity of data—some by our own hand, some by others on our behalf, and some without our knowledge or consent.
Aug 25, 2020
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How we end up 'confined' on YouTube
Everyone who has used the YouTube video platform has already had the feeling: the successive recommendations generated by the site's algorithm sometimes "confine" us in a bubble of similar content.
Apr 22, 2020
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