Sanchez argued that predictive policing systems are built with “dirty data” compiled over decades of police misconduct, and that there’s no current method by which this can be resolved with technology. Her testimony was based on a detailed study conducted by the AI Now Institute last year that detailed how predictive policing systems are inherently biased. She told the committee: During the hearing, Sanchez described predictive policing systems as little more than a method by which to automate corruption: Read: Predictive policing AI is a bigger scam than psychic detectives AI Now warned US regulators last year that predictive policing was a problem, and the message hasn’t changed much for the international audience....

At every company I worked for, I was constantly being offered cash incentives to refer candidates for the many roles that needed filling by yesterday if our roadmap had any hope of being adhered to – and this was before the whole Brexit mess and uncertainty started to make things even more difficult for everyone. But in the U.S. the situation is, if anything, even more desperate, with an estimated 1 million computer programming jobs expected to go unfilled by 2020....

According to a complaint dated January 8, Donald G. Blakstad swindled more than $3.5 million from investors using three separate companies. The businesses included a vehicle parts holding firm, an oil and gas firm, and “Energy Sources International” (ESI), a purported cryptocurrency mining operation where Blakstad was the only employee. “This matter involves an offering fraud orchestrated by Blakstad in which he raised approximately $3.544 million from at least 14 investors through the fraudulent offer and sale of securities in three companies he owned and controlled,” the complaint reads....

That’s not what shoppers expect. Invisible tags “If basically you’ve got somebody with market power that is restraining competition both in terms of site access or where things appear on the site,” he said, “that is potentially problematic.” Congress is considering a package of anti-monopoly bills aimed at big tech, including the Ending Platform Monopolies Act, which would make the practice of platforms giving their brands a leg up explicitly illegal....

Images first shared on Reddit and then on Twitter show the push-me-pull-you vehicle outside the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco. By the looks of things, it was being filmed ahead of its official reveal later this month. — Christian Claus (@Christian1Claus) December 6, 2020 Zoox, perhaps one of the lesser talked about self-driving startups, hasn’t kept its vehicles entirely under wraps, though. Over the past few years it’s made no effort to obscure its test vehicles, which have taken the form of modified SUVs, or its autonomous vehicle platform with no bodywork....

Like humans, galaxies are born, live out their lives, and fall into silence. The first galaxies formed just a couple hundred million years after the Big Bang, as the gravitational pull of both normal matter and dark matter pulled stars together into groups. Now, by studying dying galaxies, astronomers hope to better understand the life cycles of stellar families. An unusual finding revealed that one galaxy, with a fully-formed core, was already dying just 1....

While more than 88 mobile network operators support this communication standard, you can’t use it on iPhones. So if you’re texting a friend who uses Apple devices, they’ll still see those green bubbles reserved for people not using iMessage. Today, Android SVP Hiroshi Lockheimer cheekily tweeted about helping Apple deploy RCS. He commented on a tweet describing a person with green bubbles (aka a person using Android) in a group chat, and sent an “open invitation” to people “who can make this right....

We first heard rumblings of such a feature last year, when it was rumored to be called ‘Fast Share.’ Google confirmed the feature was on the way, and today’s announcement finally made it a reality. Rather than having to open your messaging app or a dedicated file sharing app and go through the hassle of setup and locating the right file, Nearby Share cuts down on the time it takes to share a file significantly....

1200 participants and a bunch of inspiring, knowledgable and handsome speakers. We will announce even more speakers later but we thought it would be a good idea to give you a first glimpse today. New speakers will be added to the official Speaker page. Below is a list of some of our speakers including a short biography and links to their LinkedIn or WikiPedia profiles. We are doing longer interviews with each speaker over the coming weeks with more information on their talks....

The iPhone 11 is the base model this time around – the successor to the iPhone Xr. It packs the same 6.1-inch screen size, comes in 6 colors, and includes Dolby Atmos-tuned stereo speakers. It features a dual camera; notably, the second camera uses an ultra-wide lens as opposed to a telephoto lens as in past devices. Apple focused most of the iPhone 11 segment on the camera. The company introduced several software improvements, including the ability to take pet portraits, a high-key monochrome mode, and a proper Night Mode to compete with Google....

First, Bloomberg and analyst Ming-Chi Kuo suggested the iPhone 15 — which will be released next year — will sport a USB-C port. Now, a new note from Kuo suggests that some accessories would also adopt this USB charging standard: It makes sense. If your primary device (iPhone) is charged by a USB-C port, you don’t want other accessories to charge through another port. That would mean having to carry around additional cables....

Apple says its new battery will offer four hours more battery life on the iPhone 11 Pro as compared to the iPhone Xs; five hours more on the iPhone 11 Pro Max as compared to the iPhone Xs Max. Last month, a tweet from ChargeLAB, a website focused on charging peripherals, predicted this development correctly. Apple’s support page for fast charging suggests iPhones can support a USB-PD charger of up to 87W of power....

Let’s just call the tribute video what it is — the most surefire way to elicit feels ever. Whether it’s an athlete retiring, a celebrity being honored or your kid doing…well, virtually anything, all it takes is the right music and some artful editing to start amping up the waterworks pretty darn quick. But while the response is all but universally Pavlovian, it takes some work to lovingly craft a video that encapsulates someone’s life or work....

Under a new proposal from the UK’s Law Commission, the “user in charge” of the vehicle would not be prosecuted for careless or dangerous driving, speeding, or breaking red lights when the car was in self-driving mode, the Telegraph reports. The Law Commission instead suggests that responsibility should fall on the developer or manufacturer of the hardware that enables self-driving functions on the vehicle. [Read: Why your EV’s range matters less than you think] Directors of said manufacturing companies would have corporate liability, which means they would be prosecuted when the cause of an accident has been confirmed....

Police claim Darji had also been marketing another dubious cryptocurrency-related investment, “Regal Coin,” by offering short-term returns of 5,000 percent on any investments made. He’s also alleged to have promised Regal Coin would make investors more money than holding Bitcoin, but they would need to stay invested for at least 99 days. Darji’s name also appeared during investigations into another potentially fraudulent digital asset known as “Dekado coin.” Regal Coin and BitConnect shared some similarities....

Klarna offers interest-free credit on purchases with participating retailers, including Decathlon, Desigual, JD Sports and Oasis. It allows shoppers to delay payment, or split larger purchases into manageable sums, and does not perform traditional credit checks, opting for a more permissive “soft search”. Retailers cover the cost of the interest as if it was a sales discount. Klarna operates in western Europe, Australia and the US, and has exploded in popularity during the pandemic....

A month ago, Microsoft was favorite to gobble up the short video app. Earlier this week, after ByteDance rejected the Seattle-based company’s bid, Oracle was leading the pack to go ahead with the deal. However, a report from the Financial Times suggests that Oracle might end up owning just a minority state in the company. This is what the company meant when it said that it’ll be a “trusted technology partner” in TikTok’s US operations....

While there’s a scant chance that machine learning models built on the CodeNet dataset will make human programmers redundant, there’s reason to be hopeful that they will make developers more productive. Automating programming with deep learning In the early 2010s, impressive advances in machine learning triggered excitement (and fear) about artificial intelligence soon automating many tasks, including programming. But AI’s penetration in software development has been extremely limited. Human programmers discover new problems and explore different solutions using a plethora of conscious and subconscious thinking mechanisms....

I’ve tested and tried out a fair number of phones in my time. I’ve enjoyed using lots of them, but there’s a single phone manufacturer I always keep returning to: Apple. Now, I know the negative aspects of the company’s devices. They’re expensive, they’re not as customisable as Android devices, and work best in Apple’s ecosystem. None of this is false. But Apple — in my experience — simply make the best smartphones on the market....

When working out, it’s important to have a great sweat-proof pair of earphones to blast tunes that keep you motivated. Plus, you need a good fitness band to track your workouts to measure your performance. Now, this sounds like a look of money being spent on gadgets, but what if I told you there are earphones that have in-built heart rate tracking? It’s important to have a great sweatproof pair of earphones for your workout to keep you going....