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An investigation by one of the signatories, Dr Addy Adelaine, found that the majority of funds went to white principal investigators and some to Asian scientists, and that none went to any lead black researchers. She described the allocation of funds to BBC News as a “kick in the teeth”. “There seems to be these […]
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What is happiness, why is it so important, and why is it so hard to achieve? Together, individuals and communities will go through many measures to achieve happiness. Starting in the late 1990s, positive psychology set out to understand how people become happier—but from the beginning, its perspective was skewed: Researchers and practitioners tended to […]
Technology <!– Technology –> Tech boss who was homeless as teen named Britain’s most influential Black person The tech executive and philanthropist tops The Powerlist 2025 Published On: Mon, 28 Oct 2024 04:29:00 PKT (Web Desk) – Dean Forbes, the chief executive of software solutions firm Forterro, has been named the UK’s most influential black […]
SAN FRANCISCO — One by one, they left. Some quit. Others were fired. All were Black. The 15 people worked at Coinbase, the most valuable U.S. cryptocurrency start-up, where they represented roughly three-quarters of the Black employees at the 600-person company. Before leaving in late 2018 and early 2019, at least 11 of them informed […]
It’s not a secret that Black women in the labor force are paid less, hold fewer senior-level positions, and participate less in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics). According to the National Science Foundation, women make up 47% of the current workforce but only 28% of the science and engineering workforce. Of this percentage, Black […]
The majority of commercial facial-recognition systems exhibit bias, according to a study from a federal agency released on Thursday, underscoring questions about a technology increasingly used by police departments and federal agencies to identify suspected criminals. The systems falsely identified African-American and Asian faces 10 times to 100 times more than Caucasian faces, the National […]
(Updated below) A critical report on the ShotSpotter gunshot detection system issued today by the City of Chicago’s Inspector General (IG) is the latest indication of deep problems with the gunshot detection company and its technology, including its methodology, effectiveness, impact on communities of color, and relationship with law enforcement. The report questioned the “operational […]
The doctor was attentive and the exam room was pristine, even if I did have to wait eight hours to get there. Two nights before, when I’d rushed to the emergency department with a swollen arm and a painful cyst, the room in which I was treated gave me pause. It had had bloodstains on […]
Porcha Woodruff was eight months pregnant when she was arrested for carjacking. The Detroit police used facial recognition technology to run an image of the carjacking suspect through a mugshot database, and Ms. Woodruff’s photo was among those returned. Ms. Woodruff, an aesthetician and nursing student who was preparing her two daughters for school, was […]