Neowin News Feed for: Gender

Meta admits it has been censoring for the last several years, now wants to copy Musk

Paul Hill — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 13:14:01 +0000

Meta has made a radical shift in its content moderation policies. It's scrapping fact-checkers in favor of community notes and will let people discuss political issues like migration and gender. Read more...

Meta's “Supreme Court” to investigate how it moderates debate around gender identity

Martin Hodás — Sun, 01 Sep 2024 07:18:01 +0000

A global expert panel has picked two new cases from Facebook and Instagram to explore whether Meta's handling of public discussion on the sensitive topic of gender identity can be improved. Read more...

UN body raises concerns over digital assistants defaulting to female voices

Paul Hill — Sat, 18 May 2019 10:06:01 +0000

UNESCO has published a new report which highlights concerns over to the use of female voices for digital assistants by default. It has published issues and recommendations for addressing them. Read more...

Gmail Smart Compose stops guessing gender pronouns

Paul Hill — Tue, 27 Nov 2018 16:12:01 +0000

Google has changed Gmail's Smart Compose feature to stop automatically assuming another person's gender. The change affects less than 1% of suggestions and prevents embarrassing mistakes. Read more...

Google faces gender pay equality suit; class action possible

John Keefer — Fri, 15 Sep 2017 16:40:01 +0000

Already under fire for internal gender related issues, a new suit by three former employees insists that pay equality and career opportunities for women are a serious issue within the tech giant. Read more...

Misogyny strikes again, this time at Google amidst pay gap investigation [Update]

Paul Hill — Sat, 05 Aug 2017 19:10:02 +0000

An internal document has caused some outrage at Google. One senior engineer said in their email that any pay gap was the result of biological differences. Some employees have threatened resignation. Read more...

Silicon Valley company works out how to remove selection bias with AI

Paul Hill — Fri, 07 Jul 2017 20:40:01 +0000

Atipico, a company in Silicon Valley, has developed AI to help prevent bias when screening new job applicants. The company hopes that this will help with diversity problems in STEM jobs. Read more...

Google+ to allow users to keep gender in profiles private

John Callaham — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 12:02:00 +0000

Users of Google's new social networking service Google+ have so far been asked to reveal their gender as part of their public profiles. But it seems that privacy concerns from its users have made Google... Read more...

Wikipedia is a man's game

Nicholas Carter — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 18:40:42 +0000

Wikipedia is 10 years old now and the largest source of knowledge in the land. Available in more than 250 languages and with over 3.5 million articles in English, there is no arguing that Wikipedia... Read more...

Complaints Allege Gender Bias at EMC

Fri, 14 Sep 2007 00:32:09 +0000

A sex-discrimination lawsuit by Tami Remien and Debra Fletcher, two former female employees of EMC Corp., describes a men's locker-room atmosphere at the data storage vendor's sales offices, alleging women were systematically denied equal pay... Read more...