In August, a group of Black former NFL players filed a lawsuit against the league claiming its system for awarding compensation for brain injuries was racially tilted. The suit blamed the NFL’s use of a health care algorithm that assumes white people have intrinsically higher cognitive function than Black people. The NFL called the suit…
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After a day of Chromecast with Google TV leaks, the Nest Audio is getting its own unboxing. This is a more straightforward hands-on, but did reveal the presence of touch controls. Oddly, all the Nest Audio speakers spotted on store shelves have been in Charcoal. The box from a throwaway Reddit account touts “crisp vocals…
Amazon unveils new, Luna gaming, Ring drone camera, Echo, Echo Dot, and Echo Dot with clock, plus – YouTube
You might be wondering: “Did Amazon just break Apple’s App Store guidelines by bringing a cloud gaming service to iPhone?” And I can understand why, given that I told you just last week how Apple doesn’t permit Google Stadia in anything close to its current form, and Amazon’s just-announced Luna is a lot like Stadia.…
On the second day of the WIRED25 three-part virtual speaker series, topics ranged from the disastrous effects of the Anthropocene to the importance of journalism under an authoritarian regime. Today’s premise: how to make our communities, systems, and planet more resilient. Sarah Friar, the CEO of Nextdoor, kick-started the discussions in an interview by Lauren…
California governor Gavin Newsom signed an executive order Wednesday that sets an ambitious plan to eliminate sales of gas-powered cars and trucks in the state by 2035. The order, the nation’s first that would ban gasoline engines, directs the state’s Air Resources Board to draft rules to require the sales of more electric-powered vehicles. “This…
This year, many people braved the risk of coronavirus infection to protest police brutality in Black neighborhoods, but physical violence isn’t the only way law enforcement can harm marginalized and minority communities: Hacker Matt Mitchell wants us to pay attention to digital policing, too. He argues that marginalized communities have become a test bed for…
Silicon Valley has long been criticized for operating under an erroneous binary: You must choose between profit or positive social impact. As people around the nation face an ongoing public health emergency, overlapping climate crises, and a long-delayed reckoning with race, more people are calling on the tech industry to prioritize social impact over profits.…
Maria Ressa, CEO and executive editor of Rappler, an investigative news website in the Philippines, says we talk about disinformation all wrong. The typical framing suggests that the people behind disinformation want us to believe something that isn’t true. That’s not quite right, she says. Their larger aim is to shake our whole sense of…
Nextdoor CEO Sarah Friar did not use the f-word—you know, Facebook—even once during her appearance at the all-virtual WIRED25 Conference on Wednesday. But the comparison between the two online social platforms, both moderated by a mix of automated systems and humans and often accused of fomenting distrust and hate, has been made many times. Friar…
