Accountability and algorithmic bias: Why diversity and inclusion matters [NeurIPS Invited Talk]
One of the most awaited machine learning conference, NeurIPS 2018 is happening throughout this week in Montreal, Canada. It will feature a series of...
Dark Web Phishing Kits: Cheap, plentiful and ready to trick you
Spam email is a part of daily life on the internet. Even the best junk mail filters will still allow through certain suspicious looking...
How NeurIPS 2018 is taking on its diversity and inclusion challenges
This year the Neural Information Processing Systems Conference is asking serious questions to improve diversity, equity, and inclusion at NeurIPS. “Our goal is to...
Tech Workers Coalition volunteers talk unionization and solidarity in Silicon Valley
In the latest podcast episode of Delete your account, Roqayah Chamseddine and Kumars Salehi talked to Ares and Kristen, volunteers with the Tech Workers...
Open Source Software: Are maintainers the only ones responsible for software sustainability?
Last week, a Californian Computer Scientist disclosed a malicious package ‘flatmap-stream’ in the popular npm package, ‘event-stream’. The reason for this breach is, the...
5 lessons public wi-fi can teach us about cybersecurity
Free, public Wi-Fi is now crucial in ensuring people stay connected where a secure network is absent or mobile data is unavailable. While the...
5 types of deep transfer learning
Transfer learning is a method of reusing a model or knowledge for another related task. Transfer learning is sometimes also considered as an extension...
Sally Hubbard on why tech monopolies are bad for everyone: Amazon, Google, and Facebook...
When people talk about tech giants such as Amazon, Facebook, and Google, they usually talk about the great and powerful innovations that they’ve brought...
Recode Decode #GoogleWalkout interview shows why data and evidence don’t always lead to right...
Earlier this month, 20,000 Google employees along with temps, Vendors, and Contractors walked out of their respective Google offices to protest against the discrimination,...
How to build a location-based augmented reality app
The augmented reality market is developing rapidly. Today, it has a total market value of almost $15 billion; according to Statista, and this figure...