TECHNOLOGY

NEW YORK (AP) — A New York regulator is investigating Goldman Sachs for possible sexual intercourse discrimination in the way it sets credit score boundaries. The bank denies wrongdoing. The investigation follows a collection of viral tweets by entrepreneur and web developer David Heinemeier Hansson about algorithms used for the […]

Apple Inc co-founder Steve Wozniak joined in the on-line debate over accusations of gender discrimination by the algorithm at the rear of the Apple iphone maker’s credit rating card, fueling scrutiny of the newly launched Apple Card.  The criticism started off on Thursday, after entrepreneur David Heinemeier Hansson railed from […]

Some Google users who exported their personal videos to a Google storage application could have experienced their videos sent to total strangers, the tech giant said this week. A specialized challenge in November triggered some video clips that consumers exported to the backup storage application Down load Your Knowledge (previously […]

Facebook reported Wednesday it eradicated 3.2 billion bogus accounts in excess of the past 6 months, as well as hundreds of thousands of scenarios of loathe speech and child nudity. The social media big on Wednesday released its biannual transparency report, which specifics its function to fight the unfold of […]

Amazon mentioned Thursday it will challenge a Pentagon contract awarded to Microsoft last month worth up to $10 billion, contacting the selection-producing system biased and tainted by “political influence.” The Department of Defense experienced been mulling numerous bids for a cloud computing job regarded as the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure, […]

Feminine pole dancers, health instructors and sex personnel who use Instagram have started out changing their gender to male on the app. The prevalent deception is in response to a sexist plan the tech large launched earlier this yr. In April, Instagram began hiding pictures and films that it considers […]

Twitter declared Wednesday that it will pause its strategy to purge inactive accounts amid fears that deceased customers would have their webpages erased. In a assertion, the social media huge famous that the initiative only influences the European Union for now, and clarified that it “always experienced an inactive account […]

Twitter mentioned Wednesday it would pause its programs to purge inactive accounts on the social network following many anxious that useless users’ histories would be deleted en masse. “We’ve heard you on the influence that this would have on the accounts of the deceased,” Twitter wrote on Wednesday, expressing it […]

Deloitte estimates that the variety of EVs bought all over the world for every yr will enhance far more than tenfold concerning 2018 and 2030. Currently, practically 50 percent the autos sold in Norway are EVs. That’s since a lot of of the misconceptions fostered, in aspect, by early styles […]

Facebook is rebuffing efforts by U.S. Lawyer Common William Barr to give authorities a way to read encrypted messages. The heads of Fb-owned WhatsApp and Messenger services informed Barr and his U.K. and Australian counterparts that Fb is transferring ahead with options to permit end-to-finish encryption on all of its […]