pinboard July 27, 2018

• 13 Widely Reviewed Books You May Not Have Read Yet
• Google executive warns of face ID bias – BBC News

  Facial recognition technology does not yet have “the diversity it needs” and has “inherent biases”, a top Google executive has warned.
  The remarks, from the firm’s director of cloud computing, Diane Greene, came after rival Amazon’s software wrongly identified 28 members of Congress, disproportionately people of colour, as police suspects.

• Worms frozen in permafrost for up to 42,000 years come back to life
• Climate change is supercharging a hot and dangerous summer – The Washington Post
• New York Could Become First Major U.S. City to Cap Uber and Similar Vehicles – The New York Times
• Study: Seattle is the best place to live, if you can afford it
• Amazon’s AWS continues to lead its performance highlights – TechCrunch
• How Silicon Valley Became a Den of Spies – POLITICO Magazine
• 10 of the best words in the world (that don’t translate into English) | World news | The Guardian
• KHNL: New species (a hybrid of a whale and a dolphin) discovered off Hawaii
• Irish craic explained – Top 6 levels of craic you can reach | IrishCentral.com
• 10 of the best words in the world (that don’t translate into English) | World news | The Guardian
• Paul Lisicky on Twitter: "New species (a hybrid of a whale and a dolphin) discovered off Hawaii: https://t.co/4xdQZI56qS"
• Mary Higgins Clark Warned Me to Fear Men, But I Didn’t Listen | CrimeReads
• Why Decentralization Matters – Chris Dixon – Medium
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• Mona Eltahawy on Twitter: "Ursula K. Le Guin ends this incredible commencement speech at Bryn Mawr in 1986 with one of the most powerful passages I’ve ever read. “We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all t
• Amazon’s Face Recognition Falsely Matched 28 Members of Congress With Mugshots | American Civil Liberties Union
• How the Bullet Journal stopped me lying to myself | 1843
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• Michiko Kakutani Is Fighting for Truth in a Post-Truth Era | Time
• Drug giant Glaxo teams up with DNA testing company 23andMe

  Home DNA test results from the 5 million customers of 23andMe will now be used by drug giant GlaxoSmithKline to design new drugs, the two companies announced Wednesday.

• Williams Gibson: On Technophobia and the Power of Film | Literary Hub
• Claire McCaskill, a vulnerable Democrat running for reelection, targeted in hacking attempt by Russian spies – The Washington Post
• The Bloody Brilliance of Novelist Megan Abbott | Time
• World War II pilot Mary Ellis dies at 101 – CNN
• The Summer’s Smartest and Most Innovative Thrillers | Vanity Fair
• Opinion | What Feminists Can Do for Boys – The New York Times
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• Michelle Williams on Her Marriage and Fight for Equal Pay | Vanity Fair

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