Study: Facebook delivers biased job ads, skewed by gender
Facebook is showing different job ads to women and men in a way that might run afoul of anti-discrimination laws, according to a new study.
2 hours ago - Phys.org
LG is dead, but check out the heavily discounted LG Velvet and Wing right now!
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Facebook to convert part of Calif. headquarters into COVID vaccination site
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Facebook's ad algorithms are still excluding women from seeing jobs
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16 hours ago - Technology Review - 3 articles
Building the right team for a billion-dollar startup
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18 hours ago - TechCrunch
Facebook takes down 16,000 groups trading fake reviews after another poke by UK's CMA
Facebook has removed 16,000 groups that were trading fake reviews on its platform after another intervention by the UK's Competition and Markets Authority , the regulator said...
19 hours ago - TechCrunch
Facebook's new open-source dataset could help make AI less biased
The social media platform says that the new dataset could help researchers address discriminatory flaws in their AI systems.
19 hours ago - ZDnet
Clubhouse for PC isn't a thing - that download is actually malware
Cybercriminals somehow managed to bypass Facebook's built-in fraudulent ad protections.
19 hours ago - TechRadar
Facebook's ad delivery system still has gender bias, new study finds
An audit by researchers at the University of Southern California found that Facebook's ad delivery system discriminates against women, showing them different ads than it shows...
19 hours ago - The Verge - 3 articles
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Un premier aperçu de la Google Pixel Watch ?
Les rumeurs vont bon train concernant l'existence d'une Google Pixel Watch. Et si nous en avions aujourd'hui un permier aperçu ?
China Slapped Alibaba with $2.75 Billion Fine for Breaking Antitrust Rules
The e-commerce giant has come under pressure amid China's campaign to tighten supervision on the country's leading tech companies.
Logitech officially discontinues its line of Harmony universal remotes
Logitech promises to continue supporting its Harmony service for “as long as customers are using it.”
NASA's Perseverance rover sends back its first Mars weather report
As NASA had previously detailed, the Perseverance rover, which landed on Mars in mid-February, is equipped with a system called the Mars Environmental Dynamics Analyzer. This...
Extra Crunch roundup: StockX EC-1, Early Stage recaps, unpacking Alkami's...
Over the last few days, we've published several articles recapping panels from last week's TechCrunch Early Stage virtual conference. Each story is based on an interview with a...
Daily Deals (4-09-2021)
Samsung and Lenovo tablets are on sale. You can save 30 percent when you buy a 2-pack of Amazon Fire HD Kids Edition tablets. And Best Buy is offering a 3-month subscription to...
Lilbits: Apple's iMessage lock-in strategy, Surface Laptop 4, and Verizon's...
Maybe we shouldn't be surprised when something called a “hotspot” overheats, but Verizon has issued a recall on 2.5 million mobile hotspots that may pose a fire hazard after...
The Last Campfire gets the No Man's Sky treatment with a big, free update
On the heels of the Expeditions update for No Man's Sky - which launched a couple of weeks ago - Hello Games has released a new update for The Last Campfire. As Hello Games...
Apple's 16-inch and 13-inch MacBook Pro, and several monitors are also on sale
We start today's deals with a nice selection of laptops and monitors on sale. We first head over to Amazon, where we find Apple notebooks on sale, starting with the 13-inch...
DuckDuckGo promises to block Google's latest ad-tracking tech - if Google...
Google is just starting to test its replacement for third-party cookies , but DuckDuckGo is already announcing that it wants to block that tech with its Chrome extension...