Posts Tagged ‘san francisco’
The Toronto Raptors aren't just currently leading the Golden State Warriors in the NBA Finals, they're also failing basic Bay Area geography on Twitter much like ABC has in the past.
Or they may be rubbing salt in the wounds of Oakland-based fa... ...
Elizabeth Warren has plopped her proposal to break up Big Tech right in Big Tech's front yard.
The Democratic presidential candidate put up a pretty striking billboard in San Francisco on Wednesday, ahead of her visit to the city this weekend. As not... ...
San Francisco: It's time again for the always-outstanding annual Kronos Festival, several days of fantastic global and experimental music curated by the seminal avant/classical/global Kronos Quartet. Every Kronos Festival I've attended has turned me on to a spectrum of new sounds, artists, scenes, and regions. From KQED:
At SFJAZZ on June 1, singer-composer Hawa ...
This week could mark a significant setback for Amazon’s ****** recognition business if privacy and civil liberties advocates — and some shareholders — get their way. Months earlier, shareholders tabled a resolution to limit the sale of Amazon’s ****** recognition tech giant calls Rekognition to law enforcement and government agencies. It followed accusations of bias ...
Contrary Capital is raising $35 million to invest between $50,000 and $200,000 in students and recent college dropouts. ...
On Tuesday, San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors voted to approve a ban on the use of ****** recognition tech by city agencies, including the police department. The Stop Secret Surveillance Ordinance, introduced by San Francisco Supervisor Aaron Peskin, is the first ban of its kind for a major American city and the seventh major surveillance ...
San Francisco just voted to ban ******-recognition technology.
The city that has for many come to symbolize the power of tech, both in all its terror and glory, took an important step on Tuesday to rein in some of that power. The city's Board of Supe... ...
How founders are taking on housing costs worldwide. ...
Facebook has been repeatedly (and rightly) hammered for its treatment of the content moderators who ensure the site doesn’t end up becoming a river of images, videos and articles embodying the worst of humanity. Those workers, and the hundreds (if not thousands) of other contractors Facebook employs to cook food, provide security and provide transportation ...
An EC-exclusive interview with Apple CEO Tim Cook TechCrunch editor-in-chief Matthew Panzarino traveled to Florida this week to talk with Tim Cook about Apple’s developer education initiatives and also meet with high school developer Liam Rosenfeld of Lyman High School. Apple wants to attract the next set of app developers like Liam into the Xcode ...