Interesting Stuff by Crhis Sandoval - 9/14/2016: AI's hard to see; Airbnb’s Work to Fight Discrimination, Build Inclusion; Transportation Overk‏

Some cool stuff from my favorite local tech newsletter.  Thanks for sending this out Chris!

-Mike Cairns

Robots & AI Stuff AI is hard to see “AI systems are already making problematic judgements that are producing significant social, cultural, and economic impacts in people’s everyday lives” MUST READ What AI will look like in 2030 “Now is the time to consider the design, ethical, and policy challenges AI technologies raise” More Robots & AI Stuff: ·         </span>TINY ROBOT VS ANTS Diversity & Inclusion Stuff Airbnb’s Work to Fight Discrimination and Build Inclusion< /span> (PDF) “putting in place powerful systemic changes to greatly reduce opportunity for hosts and guests to engage in conscious or unconscious discriminatory conduct.” MUST READ Airbnb Adopts Rules to Fight Discrimination by Its Hosts “Diversity advocates said Airbnb’s actions were a notable first step, but wondered how some of the changes could be enforced and whether the moves went far enough” More Diversity & Inclusion Stuff: ·         NCAA Moves Championship Events From North Carolina, Citing Anti-Gay-Rights Law ·         When tech firms judge on skills alone, women land more job interviews ·         And Do You Belong? I Do ·         Giraffes: more diverse than you thought. Trends How Transportation Overkill Is Killing Us “pedestrian struck by vehicle going 40mph has 10% chance of surviving, one struck by a car at 20mph has a 90% chance. So when we post a 40-mile speed limit on a boulevard where pedestrians walk, we’re saying in the event of a crash, a 90% mortality rate is acceptable. Thes e decisions matter.” MUST READ Middle class incomes had their fastest growth on record last year “5.2% increase was largest recorded by bureau since it began tracking in the 1960s” More Trends: ·         How the careless errors of credit reporting agencies are r uining people’s lives Future of Cars Stuff No Driver? Bring It On. How Pittsburgh Became Uber’s Testing Ground “You can either put up red tape or roll out the red carpet. If you want to be a 21st-century laboratory for technology, you put out the carpet.” How Tesla Fixed a Deadly Flaw in Its Autopilot “ingenious solution could make self-driving cars much safer—if it works” More Future of Cars Stuff: ·         Google's Self-Driving Car Project Is Losing Out to Rivals ·         This flying car’s real, it can fly 430mi on a tank Customer Experience Stuff Why User Experience Always Has to Come First “Privileging easy money over better user experience is the antithesis of customer centricity” More Custom er Experience Stuff: ·         Steve Jobs Talks About The Courage To Remove Outdated Tech In Oddly Prescient Video ·         There Are No Truffles in Truffle Oil ·         Save BIG on Hong Kong Real Estate: Shop for a haunted apartment ·         Authenticity’s Paradox: If You Flaunt It, You Lose It Military Stuff Marine Tried To Warn A Comrade, Now He Faces A Discharge “The inquiry was retaliation, Bowe says, for embarrassing the Marine Corps brass.” 20 Marines Face Discipline After Muslim Recruit’s Death’s Ruled Suicide “revealed departures from policies and procedures established for Marine Corps recruit training” Marine drill instructor accused of running a clothes dryer with a Muslim recruit inside “Even back in the day when they were really brutal at Parris Island, I can’t imagine that happening. That’s abuse” More Military Stuff: ·         Army Announces Long-Anticipated Family Program Cuts ·         Army About to Kick Out Paralyzed Hero ·         Pentagon looks to the past to counter digital warfare of the future ·         To Launch a Nuclear Strike, Clinton or Trump Would Follow These Steps Wells Fargo Stuff ·         Q&A: Former LA Times reporter on story that led to $185M Wells Fargo fine READ THIS ·          Wells Fargo Opened a Couple Million Fake Accounts ·         How Regulation Failed with Wells Fargo Innovation Stuff ·         How I Built a $2B Company by Thinking Small ·         Apple’s greatest innovation: its ecosystem ·         Google's Clever Plan to Stop As piring ISIS Recruits ·         LoveBot tells your wife you love her so you don’t have to

Weather Stuff ·      Earth Temperature Timeline MUST SEE ·      Permafrost 'bubbles' leaking methane 200X above norm<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#FFFF9B"> ·      Cool new interactive weather site: Ventusky ·      Close-Up View of Volcano Eruption ·      Temperature anomalies 1880-present Magic Box ·      FINALLY: blog devtoed to SA taco culture!!! #YUM ·      Why Do Tourists Visit Ancient Ruins Everywhere Except the US? ·      70yo man robs bank to get arrested and away from wife ·      Texas A&M pays off poor colleges to lose football games (and they wanna stop paying) ·      The Thrill of Losing Money by Investing in a Manhattan Restaurant ·      Chicago Paleta Man's Story Inspires Nation, $140K Raised To Help His Family Voting Stuff ·      voteplz: Literally the easiest way to vote Energy Stuff ·      Costa Rica has gone 76 straight days using 100% renewable electricity Animal Stuff ·      Video of Evolution in Action ·      Tasmanian Devils Evolving Genetic Resistance to Cancer Threatening Species Diversions ·      Fury Road - Crash & Smash SO GOOD ·      Unicycling atop a huge chimney ·      Incredible paper ball shot secures entire class 100% in chemistry test ·      Joy Division’s Ian Curtis rides a rollercoaster ·      In A Sometimes-Bizarre Election Year, The Onion Ramps Up Its Satire