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modwilliamon Oracle allegedly underpaid $400M in wages to underrepresented employees

Maybe less resentment if employees compare salaries

modwilliamon Start with a Website, Not a Mobile App

They should't be available via Firefox, just chrome/google search

modwilliamon Google’s Fuchsia OS Confirmed to Have Android App Support via Android Runtime

Google Photos

Edit: Also Google Home devices, especially the Mini

modwilliamon Microsoft changed how it interviews software developers

Not sure if I'm misreading, but you don't have to implement data structures for Google interviews

modwilliamon A Full Hardware Guide to Deep Learning

"Basic" math operations like matrix multiplication being needed to done in massive quantities in parallel

modwilliamon Facebook open-sources a speech-recognition system and a machine learning library

Seems that they have an automatic captioning feature for videos/audio on the site

modwilliamon Microsoft Is Worth as Much as Apple. How Did That Happen?

The potential for growth is in raising the prices of its products. For example, the price of THE flagship iPhone has gone up by at least $100 for the past 2 releases. The MacBooks are also becoming more and more expensive

modwilliamon Google pulls gender pronouns from Gmail Smart Compose to reduce bias

From the article:

When a scientist talked about meeting an investor in January, for example, Gmail offered the follow-up "do you want to meet him" -- not considering the possibility that the investor could be a woman.

The problem is a typical one with natural language generation systems like Google's: it's based on huge volumes of historical data. As certain fields tend to be dominated by people from one gender, the AI can sometimes assume that a person belongs to that gender.

modwilliamon Ditching the MacBook Pro for a MacBook Air

They've been trying to make things thinner / lighter, and they're trying to do that to the keyboards as well

modwilliamon TikTok surpassed Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, YouTube in downloads last month

People don't access it through the website, they access it through the app store listings (where there is more information)

modwilliamon Apple Finally Updates MacBook Air with Retina Display, Touch ID

And a new display

modwilliamon Airbnb can’t go on unregulated – it does too much damage to cities

Could you show some examples of the particular Airbnb style?

modwilliamon Instagram’s Co-Founders Said to Step Down from Company

They may not be able to. See: Snapchat

modwilliamon Why Apple's 3D Touch failed miserably

Personally, it was always hard for me to figure out how much of the utility of 3D touch could just be achieved with long pressing. With the time that it takes to press down your finger, you're basically long pressing anyway

modwilliamon The State of Cryptocurrency Mining

From another comment here, X16R?

https://ravencoin.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/X16R-Whitep...

modwilliamon New Leadership Has Not Changed Uber

Yes, though there's a daily limit to the number of destinations you can target (around 2 a day?)

modwilliamon Bitcoin Mining Service NiceHash Says Hackers Emptied Its Wallet

There is no official announcement on the BTC taken, but reddit users have been passing around a wallet that suddenly got $60m recently