Amazon built an automated hiring tool to find the best talent. The tool looked at resumes from the previous ten years to learn what a "winner" looked like. Most of those past winners were men. Because of this, the computer learned to penalize any resume that mentioned the word "women’s." It downgraded graduates from women's…
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Before the 1830s, information moved only as fast as a physical object. If a merchant in London wanted to send a price list to New York, the paper traveled on a wooden ship across a vast ocean. Distance dictated the reach of knowledge before the 1830s. The History of Information Networks tracks the moment we…
Tech giants capture human attention to build fortunes, yet they legally distance themselves from the specific consequences of that capture. A jury just decided that building a digital habit-forming environment carries an actual price tag. According to Reuters, the recent Meta and Google addiction lawsuit ended with a staggering verdict on Wednesday. The report notes…
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