Fake Pictures of People of Color Won’t Fix AI Bias
Armed with a belief in technology’s generative potential, a growing faction of researchers and companies aims to solve the problem of bias in AI by creating artificial images of people…
The Trumpification of Elon Musk
Around the time Trump was inaugurated in 2017, I said to colleagues in the newsroom where I worked at the time that we shouldn’t cover everything he said or tweeted.…
SEBI Proposes Mandating Top 250 Listed Firms To Confirm Or Deny Media Reports
Sebi has recommended that entities should make disclosures in relation to cybersecurity incidents.New Delhi: To streamline the disclosure requirements, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has proposed mandating…
TikTok’s Greatest Asset Isn’t Its Algorithm—It’s Your Phone
TikTok’s ascent to becoming the most popular site on the internet has sparked endless discussions about its stickiness—as if it were capable of hacking our normal cognitive pathways and transmitting…
Streamers Use Playlists to Control the Music Industry
Paul Johnson’s life was like any other struggling musician’s—working multiple jobs, picking up gigs, hustling. Then his warm acoustic folk-pop tune “Firework” made it on to one of Spotify’s Fresh…
Humanity’s Biggest Problems Require a Whole New Media Mode
Our media systems are at their limits. From climate change to Covid, the most pressing phenomena of our times cannot be captured by the flat media paradigm we’ve built up.…
Could TikTok Charge Users to View Your Videos? The Law Says Yes
“At LinkedIn, we’re committed to respecting what’s yours,” says the narrator of a video titled “Who owns your content? You do.” They continue: “So we’ll always ask your permission before…
Facebook, Multiple Media Sites Partially Down in Russia: Reports
Facebook and multiple media websites were partially inaccessible in Russia on Friday, as authorities crack down on critical voices and fighting rages in Ukraine.AFP journalists in Moscow were not able…
What Russia Is Doing to Ukraine Must Be Preserved—Not Just Seen
On Monday, Karim A.A. Khan QC, prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, announced that the Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) was opening an investigation into alleged…
Trust In News Has Grown Amid Pandemic, But It Is Below Average In India: Report
In India, Television remains the most popular news source overall. (Representational)New Delhi: Trust in news has grown amid the coronavirus pandemic with 44 per cent of the respondents globally saying…