Managers reportedly encouraged contractors to mischaracterize the data collection as a “selfie game,” akin to Snapchat filters such as Face Swap. College students who agreed to the scans later told the Daily News that they didn’t recall ever hearing the name Google and were simply told to play with the phone in exchange for a […]
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The US city of Atlanta, Georgia alleged last week that contractors working on behalf of Google used confusing, aggressive tactics to exploit black people in order to obtain their likeness for facial recognition AI research. Now Google‘s responded, saying the contractors were conducting work related to the Pixel 4’s face unlock feature, and that it’s suspended
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BUNCH O’ LADS Google has been criticised for using some controversial tactics in the quest to teach its neural networks how to recognise faces. With less than two weeks to go until the Pixel 4 line of smartphones is released, which are expected to use facial recognition as its primary lock/unlock mechanism, it now seems
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Small business owner Harry Sanders is helping drive a revolution in the notoriously scandal-ridden search engine optimisation (SEO) industry. The 21-year-old entrepreneur is the founder of StudioHawk, an SEO provider with no lock-in contracts that’s shot to prominence over the last two years. While disruption and innovation are generally behind growth stories, Sanders is the first
Flying high, Harry Sanders StudioHawk Resilience is an entrepreneur’s most valuable trait. It is the driving force that makes them tick and keeps them going against all odds, certainly in the case of Harry Sanders. As a young teenager he launched a promising tech business, but ran out of cash and ended up living on the streets. His
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This content is a press release from our partner Business Wire. The AP newsroom and editorial departments were not involved in its creation. Click to copyhttps://apnews.com/Business%2520Wire/bc698ec1573047c894e0089b2c9f0040 NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Mar 13, 2019–Today, the Coalition for the Homeless announced that the 25th Anniversary Women Mean Business Luncheon – which benefits the First Step Job Training Program for
A 21-year-old CEO has revealed how he went from being homeless and living on the streets with ‘heroin addicts’ to managing a company worth $1.3million in just four years. At the age of 17, Melbourne-based Harry Sanders dropped out of school and found himself homeless and alone. ‘It was terrible… to be honest I didn’t
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Absurdly Driven looks at the world of business with a skeptical eye and a firmly rooted tongue in cheek. It’s the apparently mundane stories of how one person treats another that end up in so many viral videos. In the middle is often a brand. At the heart, though, are judgments of business and humanity. One that has
In the summer of 2002, right after I turned 21, I joined AmeriCorps. If you aren’t familiar with AmeriCorps, it was created by the federal government in 1993 to be the domestic equivalent of the Peace Corps. Full-time participants serve for a year and receive a living stipend that is roughly equivalent to earning the
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