https://www.ted.com/talks/joy_buolamwini_how_i_m_fighting_bias_in_algorithms?language=en
TimelineJS
TimelineJS is an open-source tool that enables anyone to build visually rich, interactive timelines. Beginners can create a timeline using nothing more than a Google spreadsheet, like the one we used for the Timeline above. Experts can use their JSON skills to create custom installations, while keeping TimelineJS's core functionality.
Digital Holocaust Archives – Online Discussion
On Thursday 1st October, we hosted five speakers working on different Holocaust archive projects in Europe. Wolfgang Ernst has argued that digital technologies transform the very idea of what archives are and can be. Traditionally, the archive has been conceptualised (in theory at least) as a place guarded by archons (see Derrida), who control the discourse of history, where material objects are kept in static storage until they are brought for viewing by those granted access.
Online Viewing Rooms
Online Viewing Rooms is Art Basel's virtual platform connecting the world's leading galleries with our global network of collectors and art enthusiasts. Our next edition, 'OVR: Miami Beach', will feature exhibitors selected to participate in our canceled 2020 Miami Beach show, and be accompanied by a program of online events, including talks and gallery walk-throughs. Until then, discover our Online Viewing Rooms stories and videos below.
New K-pop girl group Aespa features human and virtual members, and comes from Red Velvet managers SM Entertainment
The group of human and virtual members heralds ‘the beginning of the future of entertainment’, SM Entertainment founder Lee Soo-man says
The news of Aespa’s launch comes days after Red Velvet’s Irene was accused of bullying a stylist, followed by the cancellation of a Red Velvet appearance
When Bias Is Coded Into Our Technology
Facial recognition systems from large tech companies often incorrectly classify black women as male — including the likes of Michelle Obama, Serena Williams and Sojourner Truth. That's according to Joy Buolamwini, whose research caught wide attention in 2018 with "AI, Ain't I a Woman?" a spoken-word piece based on her findings at MIT Media Lab.
Netflix's The Great Hack Brings Our Data Nightmare to Life
The new documentary about Cambridge Analytica uses thoughtful narration and compelling visuals to create a dystopian horror movie for our times.
‘The Social Dilemma’ Review: Unplug and Run
This documentary from Jeff Orlowski explores how addiction and privacy breaches are features, not bugs, of social media platforms.
Anti-crisis hackers join forces to find COVID-19 solutions
Gömülü Ögeler Bölümü Alt Başlığı
n international community of hackers have embarked on a project to find innovative solutions to the everyday challenges brought on by the coronavirus outbreak.
Hack_Curio
Hack_Curio is a video portal into hackerdom that helps explain why hacking is one of the most important phenomena of global culture and politics in the late 20th and early 21st century. The site features short video clips that are accompanied by a brief explainer about the footage. Their material hails from many different sources: Hollywood and Bollywood film, documentaries, tv ads, talks, homebrewed videos, newscasts, and more.
COVID-19: Hackers are combatting another kind of viral threat
Cases of fraud and data theft are on the rise in the pandemic – but an unlikely group of heroes are helping to keep companies safe
Holocaust Commemoration: Between Digital and Physical Spaces – An Online Discussion
On Thursday, September 24th 2020, speakers from Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, Bergen-Belsen and Neuengamme Memorials contributed to an online discussion about the relationship between digital and physical spaces for Holocaust commemoration.
The future of hacking: COVID-19 shifting the way hackers work and who they target
Amid COVID-19, hackers are presented opportunity on multiple fronts. They play on people’s concerns about the virus by presenting phishing schemes or malware disguised in fake Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) alerts that talk about the latest vaccine or treatment developments. Hackers quickly used the pandemic and related anxiety to lure people into phishing schemes and malware attacks. There is also pressure on healthcare companies and researchers to safeguard their vaccine and treatment data. As of mid-July, there have been multiple reports of Russian and Chinese state-sponsored hackers attempting to steal coronavirus vaccine data from various labs.