Coca-Cola will suspend advertising on social media globally for at least 30 days, as pressure builds on platforms to crack down on hate speech. “There is no place for racism in the world and there is no place for racism on social media,” the drinks maker’s chairman and CEO James Quincey said. He demanded “greater accountability […]
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are backing the campaign #StopHateForProfit, which is calling for major companies to pull their advertising campaigns from Facebook until the social media giant takes action to stop the spread of so-called hate speech, civil rights group NAACP has confirmed. The Baltimore-based civil rights organization, which was founded in 1909, took to […]
When the American Civil Liberties Union ran a test of Amazon.com Inc.’s facial recognition technology, the software falsely matched 28 members of Congress, many of them minorities, with mugshots of arrested people from police files. Now, some of those lawmakers are drafting new legislation to curtail the use of facial recognition by police departments and […]
Many speak people are now speaking of ‘Digital Feudalism’, a topic that, for some experts, could be the end of liberal principles, the global drive for domination, vigilance, and absence of personal independence. Why call it feudalism? Let us remember that, during the Middle Ages, feudalism was a system of government with economic, social, and […]
The feature, financed by the backers of ‘To the Bone’ and ‘Loving Vincent,’ is said to be the first to rely on an artificially intelligent actor. As the industry grapples with how to reopen for production safely, one movie is proceeding with a lead actress who is immune to COVID-19 — because she’s a robot […]
In a recent Wall Street Journal essay, “Looking Forward to the End of Humanity”, Adam Kirsch posits a technological push, impelled by the global coronavirus pandemic, that would abolish death: Eternal life through advanced technology seems like a pipe dream for a society that, until recently, had trouble manufacturing enough masks to save doctors’ and nurses’ lives. […]
Ex-Uber executive Ryan Rzepecki is looking to build a private, politically autonomous city that would accept the anticipated exodus of Silicon Valley tech workers who are now remote since corporate offices have shuttered. As The Telegraph’s Margi Murphy reports, Rzepecki wants to use the cash from the $200 million sale of his electric bike company Jump — […]
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Covid-19 is accelerating the adoption of police robots in several cities such as Tunis in Tunisia, Guangzhou in China, and Chennai in India. In south-east Asia, the city-state of Singapore leverages its Smart Nation resources to alleviate shocks from Covid-19. The robot car O-R3 and robot dog Spot patrol public parks and broadcast messages that remind people […]
Like a skilled magician who gets you to look at his right hand while the left hand is performing the “trick”, New York state is rolling out 500,000 smart streetlights that hook up to the Internet of Things (IoT). According to Smart Cities Dive, Streetlights installed will be on Signify’s Interact City software, which enables local […]
Like a skilled magician who gets you to look at his right hand while the left hand is performing the “trick”, New York state is rolling out 500,000 smart streetlights that hook up to the Internet of Things (IoT). According to Smart Cities Dive, Streetlights installed will be on Signify’s Interact City software, which enables local […]