Kanarys, a startup aiming to help employees and companies build diverse workplaces, has won a $3 million seed funding round, bringing its total backing to $4.6m. The Dallas, Texas-headquartered firm, launched in…
AI in the Age of #BlackLivesMatter: Reckoning or PR Stunt?
George Floyd’s death, and weeks of global protest against racial inequality that followed, have persuaded two of Silicon Valley’s biggest brands to rethink facial recognition technology. On Tuesday IBM announced it would…
Zuckerberg Faces Staff Anger, as Black Lives Matter Protests Continue Across America
Protests against racial injustice continue to march through cities in America and abroad. Four police officers complicit in the death of George Floyd are appearing in court. Workers are erecting tall fences…
Bias and Artificial Intelligence: Ghosts in the Machine
With a gigantic bottleneck in tech talent, companies are turning to tech to speed up the recruitment process. But baked into hiring startups’ algorithms are biases and prejudices as old as time…