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In September 2020, DiabetesMine worked with a group of patient advocates to help shed light on the experiences of BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) with diabetes technology and care. What we found out was both unsurprising and eye-opening. Our survey . . .
Skilled, the world’s largest virtual career center is excited to announce a formal partnership with the Blacks In Technology (BIT) Foundation, the largest community of people of African descent in the technology industry. The collaboration is to provide the Black community with unlimited access to career services which include resume reviews. It will also include 1:1 coaching/mentoring, […]
According to Barringer, rigid hereditary determinism predetermined the absolute limit of African Americans’ biological and social advancement. He argued that with emancipation came reversion of African Americans to “savage” status, creating a new, degenerate black generation that could not possibly survive in contact with civilized white society. Barringer believed that under the conditions of slavery, […]
The news: Google, which was seen as the industry leader in AI before the debut of ChatGPT in late 2022, is now seen as lagging OpenAI. The February launch of the latest version of Gemini, Google’s flagship tool, was supposed to show its prowess. Like many technologists nonetheless building world-changing . . .
Carlos Osorio/AP Porcha Woodruff poses on August 7, 2023, in Oak Park, Michigan. Woodruff’s lawsuit is the latest to zero in on facial recognition technology and its potential risks. CNN — Detroit’s police chief on Wednesday blamed “poor investigative work,” not the use of facial recognition technology, for the arrest of a Black mother who
American Amara Majeed was accused of terrorism by the Sri Lankan police in 2019. Robert Williams was arrested outside his house in Detroit and detained in jail for 18 hours for allegedly stealing watches in 2020. Randal Reid spent six days in jail in 2022 for supposedly using stolen credit cards in a state he’d […]
We think visibility is a primary factor that contributes towards the underrepresentation of Black scientists across the biomedical sciences. Going back as far as in secondary school, we didn’t see people who represented us in these fields, sometimes even within our own families. A lack of access to understanding what such a career entails can […]
Rite Aid used facial recognition systems to identify shoppers that were previously deemed “likely to engage” in shoplifting without customer consent and misidentified people – particularly women and Black, Latino or Asian people – on “numerous” occasions, according to a new settlement with the Federal Trade Commission. As part of the settlement, Rite Aid has […]
The tech industry is a notoriously lonely place for African Americans. Black workers comprise only 6.9 percent of STEM employees, and less than 5 percent of the workforce at tech companies in Silicon Valley. At tech behemoths like Google and Yahoo, Black workers made up 1 percent of the workforce. A new study shows that […]
On April 8, the moon’s shadow will glide across Mexico, into the United States and finally into Canada, producing one of nature’s greatest spectacles: A total solar eclipse. But if you want to see it, you’ll likely have to travel to eastern Canada — and into a very narrow path that stretches from southern Ontario, through […]