Sep 26th 2019
Tech News Weekly 101
Homepod With a Mouth
Hosted by
Jason Howell,
Mikah Sargent
Amazon's new products, bias in AI, FTC sues Match.com
Records every Thursday at 2:00pm Eastern / 11:00am Pacific / 19:00 UTC.
- (02:21) Stacey Higginbotham joins us to talk about Amazon and its boatload of new products, services, and improvements.
- (22:55) Jason gives us a little tour of the OnePlus 7T — you can catch the full review on TWiT.tv's Hands-On Tech. https://twit.tv/shows/hands-on-tech/episodes/53
- (28:48) ProPublica says U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is using online translators to vet refugees' social media posts.
- (35:58) Cade Metz talks about the article he wrote for The New York Times, which details a new AI bias art project called "ImageNetRoulette."
- (49:16) Ashley Carman of The Verge details the Federal Trade Commission's complaint against Match Group Inc., the company behind dating site Match.com. The site reportedly connected its users to fraudulent accounts to boost subscriptions.
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Links
- Everything we care about from the Alexa event
- Samuel L. Jackson’s voice is coming soon to an Amazon Alexa device near you
- Hands-On Tech 53: OnePlus 7T Review
- Google Says Google Translate Can’t Replace Human Translators. Immigration Officials Have Used It to Vet Refugees
- ‘Nerd,’ ‘Nonsmoker,’ ‘Wrongdoer’: How Might A.I. Label You?
- Match.com connected daters to fake accounts to boost subscriptions, US regulators say