MIT college student Happiness Buolamwini was dealing with facial analysis software when she noticed a problem: the software application didn't identify her face– because individuals who coded the algorithm hadn't taught it to determine a […]
The earth is a huge location to keep clean. With Litterati– an app for users to identify, gather and geotag the world's litter– TED Citizen Jeff Kirschner has created a neighborhood that's crowdsource-cleaning the world. […]
Where are all the females and girls in movie? Social researcher Stacy Smith examines how the media underrepresents and portrays women– and the possibly devastating impacts those representations have on audiences. She shares tough information […]
New tech spawns brand-new anxieties, says scientist and theorist Grady Booch, but we don't have to hesitate an all-powerful, unfeeling AI. Booch allays our worst (sci-fi induced) fears about superintelligent computers by discussing how we'll […]
Believe you're good at thinking statistics? Think once again. Whether we consider ourselves math people or not, our ability to understand and deal with numbers is terribly restricted, states information visualization specialist Alan Smith. In […]
Cybercrime netted a massive $450 billion in revenues in 2015, with 2 billion records lost or stolen worldwide. Security expert Caleb Barlow calls out the insufficiency of our current strategies to safeguard our data. His […]
Dan Bricklin changed the world forever when he codeveloped VisiCalc, the first electronic spreadsheet and grandfather of programs you probably use every day like Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets. Sign up with the software application […]
James Beacham searches for responses to the most important open questions of physics using the biggest science experiment ever installed, CERN's Large Hadron Collider. In this fun and available discuss how science occurs, Beacham takes […]
Your business may have donated cash to help fix humanitarian issues, however you might have something much more useful to provide: your data. Mallory Soldner shows us how economic sector companies can help materialize progress […]
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