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Carolyn Said / San Francisco Chronicle: DoorDash agrees to pay $5.3M to settle with San Francisco over allegations that it stiffed ~4,500 delivery workers of the city’s mandated employee benefits  —  Restaurant-delivery company DoorDash will pay $5.3 million to settle allegations with San Francisco that it stiffed almost 4,500 delivery […]

Personalization and automation remain the main directions for improving the quality of the user experience. They also help make the lives of millions of people safer, more convenient, and more comfortable. Artificial intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things (IoT) have become the main tools in recent years. It is […]

Washington Post: Sources and internal docs show Facebook’s race-blind policies around hate speech left minorities more likely to see derogatory and racist language on the site  —  Last year, researchers at Facebook showed executives an example of the kind of hate speech circulating on the social network …

Elon Musk was recently interviewed about SpaceX’s five-step design and manufacturing process when he echoed what every process excellence analyst has thought: “The most common error is to optimize a thing that should not exist.” His words are highly relevant when it comes to digital transformation. So many innovation teams […]

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Myanmar, March 2021. A month after the fall of the democratic government. In 2015, six of the 10 websites in Myanmar getting the most engagement on Facebook were from legitimate media, according to data from CrowdTangle, a Facebook-run tool. A year later, Facebook (which recently rebranded to Meta) offered global […]

Casey Newton / Platformer: Twitter’s AI ethics researchers on getting public feedback about algorithmic bias, why responsible AI is hard, why they think algorithms can be saved, and more  —  While other tech giants hide from their internal researchers, Twitter is doing its failing — and fixing — in public

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Not every house can be a smart home. Unfortunately, some lack the opportunity to become updated enough for that grand title — here’s a lighthearted look at smart home technology. Home smart home. Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like a smart home. There’s been a lot of […]

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