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- Amazon’s Alexa isn’t just AI — thousands of humans are listening
- The new Hellboy is a death-metal cover of Guillermo del Toro’s work
- Kate McKinnon will play Elizabeth Holmes in a Theranos miniseries for Hulu
- You can now listen to Apple Podcasts directly on the web
- Republicans dig into Facebook and Twitter over concerns of ‘conservative bias’
- Speed test results push back against AT&T’s ‘fastest network’ 5G E claims
- Audible will now let you keep your membership credits for a full year
- Why is Twitter mysteriously linking the word ‘People’ to The New York Times?
- All of the shows and films Disney is planning for its Disney+ streaming service
- A new bill would force companies to check their algorithms for bias
| Amazon’s Alexa isn’t just AI — thousands of humans are listening Posted: 10 Apr 2019 05:25 PM PDT  Amazon, like many other tech companies investing heavily in artificial intelligence, has always been forthright about its Alexa assistant being a work in progress. "The more data we use to train these systems, the better Alexa works, and training Alexa with voice recordings from a diverse range of customers helps ensure Alexa works well for everyone," reads the company's Alexa FAQ. What the company doesn't tell you explicitly, as highlighted by an in-depth investigation from Bloomberg published this evening, is that one of the only, and often the best, ways Alexa improves over time is by having human beings listen to recordings of your voice requests. Of course, this is all buried in product and service terms few consumers will ever... |
| The new Hellboy is a death-metal cover of Guillermo del Toro’s work Posted: 10 Apr 2019 04:56 PM PDT  There's a point in Neil Marshall's Hellboy reboot where a handful of demons get loose on Earth, and the audience can practically hear the film's special-effects artists rolling up their sleeves and cackling. As the demons tear through crowds of screaming, terrified bystanders, the film breaks down into a bloodbath. Writhing bodies are ripped apart. A man's face is torn off. Moaning people are skewered on the legs of a walking demon, and heads explode into gushy messes. Why is any of this happening? What in the action that led up to this moment would justify what's going on? The filmmakers don't particularly seem to care. It's enough for them to have gallons of vivid CGI blood spattering the lens, turning the screen into particularly gory... |
| Kate McKinnon will play Elizabeth Holmes in a Theranos miniseries for Hulu Posted: 10 Apr 2019 03:22 PM PDT  In yet another example of a podcast turning into a TV show, Hulu has ordered an adaptation of ABC Nightline's investigative series, The Dropout, about Elizabeth Holmes and her failed blood-testing company Theranos, with Saturday Night Live and Ghostbusters star Kate McKinnon tapped for the lead role. Hosted by ABC chief business, economics, and technology correspondent Rebecca Jarvis, The Dropout debuted earlier this year as a six-episode podcast and accompanying documentary series that came after a three-year investigation into Theranos and its founder. Holmes famously dropped out of Stanford to found the company, attracting an incredible amount of attention (and $900 million in investment capital) for her "revolutionary" desktop... |
| You can now listen to Apple Podcasts directly on the web Posted: 10 Apr 2019 03:17 PM PDT  Apple this week updated the web interface for Podcasts to make it cleaner, more streamlined, and easier to navigate. Users can also now play episodes directly from the website, which is a huge, appreciated change from forcing people to load iTunes to listen. Episodes now get their own landing page, too, which provides show notes and another opportunity to listen. The web interface still offers users the ability to move over to iTunes, which they'll want to do to read reviews or access trending charts, but generally, the update makes the rumors of Apple phasing out iTunes seem likely. The episode links use a podcasts.apple.com URL instead of itunes.apple.com, which even further bolsters the iTunes rumors. Using iTunes to access podcasts... |
| Republicans dig into Facebook and Twitter over concerns of ‘conservative bias’ Posted: 10 Apr 2019 02:56 PM PDT  On Wednesday, a panel of mostly Republicans, led by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), laid into representatives from Facebook and Twitter over concerns that conservative speech is actively being censored on both platforms. Representatives from Facebook and Twitter sparred with Republican lawmakers for hours at the Senate hearing where Cruz, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee's panel on the Constitution, pressured industry representatives over deep concerns he and his colleagues have that social media platforms actively censor conservative political speech. But all of the evidence Republicans provided were anecdotal stories that representatives from the companies were able to clearly explain away by citing their respective content... |
| Speed test results push back against AT&T’s ‘fastest network’ 5G E claims Posted: 10 Apr 2019 02:46 PM PDT  Last week, AT&T proudly crowned itself as "the nation's fastest wireless network," buoyed by speed tests from Ookla and its misleadingly named 5G E — i.e., LTE — network. But there's just one problem: as Ookla has taken the time to point out in a blog post, AT&T's claim isn't nearly as resounding of a victory as the company has declared. Now, it is true that AT&T did have the fastest overall mean mobile broadband speeds in America in Q1 2019. But taken as a whole for the quarter, AT&T's average download speed was 34.65 Mbps — only marginally better than T-Mobile's 34.11 Mbps average speeds, or Verizon's 33.07 Mbps. It's part of an upward trend for AT&T, which has... |
| Audible will now let you keep your membership credits for a full year Posted: 10 Apr 2019 02:38 PM PDT  Audible is making some changes to its membership program and how it issues credits, which are used to buy audiobooks through the subscription service. Now, any credits earned through Audible will last up to one year, whereas previously they lasted only six months. The change comes after a class-action lawsuit (and a couple of others) against the Amazon-owned audiobook publisher, which claimed that customers might not have realized that any membership credits they purchased, had been given as a gift, or that had hit a rollover limit would be lost. The suits also alleged that Audible wasn't transparent about how it charged a customer's card, by moving to a secondary card on file in the event that the primary one was declined. The lawsuits... |
| Why is Twitter mysteriously linking the word ‘People’ to The New York Times? Posted: 10 Apr 2019 02:35 PM PDT  If you're on Twitter, here's an experiment: type "Enemy of the People" in a tweet through Twitter's web client, then see if it automatically suggests an account for you to tag. For a lot of (if not all) users, this currently brings up The New York Times' Twitter handle. At first glance, it looks like a pretty weird attack on the Times — and it's something a number of journalists and other users have noticed this afternoon. It's not illogical to think that Twitter's algorithm has drawn a disquieting link between one of President Donald Trump's favorite phrases and one of the targets that he most frequently flings it at. But the real issue is apparently less damning and more confusing: Twitter seems to suggest the Times for just about any... |
| All of the shows and films Disney is planning for its Disney+ streaming service Posted: 10 Apr 2019 01:40 PM PDT  Disney is widely expected to unveil its upcoming streaming platform, Disney+, at its Investor Day presentation on April 11th. The company's foray into streaming video comes as sites like Amazon, Apple, and Netflix have pumped billions of dollars into original content. Disney+ is meant to bring its own massive back catalog to viewers in one place. Until recently, Disney has worked with Netflix to stream some of its biggest titles, including films from the Marvel Cinematic Universe and Star Wars franchises. Netflix has already canceled a slew of its collaborations with the studio; other movies and TV shows are beginning to disappear from the site. When Disney+ launches, Disney will effectively end its Vault program — its long-standing... |
| A new bill would force companies to check their algorithms for bias Posted: 10 Apr 2019 12:52 PM PDT  US lawmakers have introduced a bill that would require large companies to audit machine learning-powered systems — like facial recognition or ad targeting algorithms — for bias. The Algorithmic Accountability Act is sponsored by Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Ron Wyden (D-OR), with a House equivalent sponsored by Rep. Yvette Clarke (D-NY). If passed, it would ask the Federal Trade Commission to create rules for evaluating "highly sensitive" automated systems. Companies would have to assess whether the algorithms powering these tools are biased or discriminatory, as well as whether they pose a privacy or security risk to consumers. The Algorithmic Accountability Act is aimed at major companies with access to large amounts of information.... |
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