Boing Boing Gadgets Report from a massive Chinese surveillance tech expo, where junk-science "emotion recognition" rules Cory Doctorow
videos Stealing Ur Feelings: interactive documentary on the snakeoil "science" of facial emotion detection Cory Doctorow
Science Scite: a tool to find out if a scientific paper has been supported or contradicted since its publication Cory Doctorow
psychology Eminent psychologists condemn "emotion detection" systems as being grounded in junk science Cory Doctorow
politics Trump only writes the angry tweets, the nice ones are written by a staffer with an Iphone Cory Doctorow
COVID-19 Right-wing websites are weighing the pros and cons of letting people die from coronavirus to help the economy Thom Dunn
algorithmic bias After analyzing 3.5 million books, researchers learn most common adjectives used to describe men and women Mark Frauenfelder
Boing Boing Gadgets Facebook slashes price of its creepy Portal home surveillance telescreen Rob Beschizza
privacy Zuckerberg announces a comprehensive plan for a new, privacy-focused Facebook, but fails to mention data sharing and ad targeting Cory Doctorow
politics Most Americans are not confident election systems are secure from hacking: Pew Research Xeni Jardin
videos How Russian investigative journalists working for precarious free press outlets exposed the "troll factory" Cory Doctorow
too good to factcheck Study: Fake news "reaches more people, penetrate deeper into the social network, and spread much faster than accurate stories" Mark Frauenfelder
happy mutants Hyperface: a fabric that makes computer vision systems see faces everywhere Cory Doctorow
politics Moral economy and software development: software without politics is recipe for totalitarianism Cory Doctorow
