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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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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...
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...
