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Amazon suspends facial recognition technology, Starbuck’s closes 400 stores and a prediction on Apple and search by New York Magazine

Amazon suspends facial recognition technology, Starbuck’s closes 400 stores and a prediction on Apple and search

from Pivot

by New York Magazine

Published: Fri Jun 12 2020

Show Notes

Kara and Scott talk about Amazon and IBM moving away from their facial recognition technology because of algorithm's known racial biases. They also discuss Biden's petition to Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg to change his hands-off approach with political speech on the platform. They talk about HBOMax taking down "Gone with the Wind" and whether platforms should give more context to historic racism in film. And, as Starbucks shuts down 400 stores in North America, they talk about what the future is for brick and mortar giants.

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