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Does Facebook still sell discriminatory ads? We found discriminatory ads can still appear, despite Facebook’s efforts Facebook’s algorithm has its own biases Once an advertiser picks its target audience, Facebook’s algorithm makes its own decisions about which specific user within the target audience to show an ad to. The goal of that algorithm, Facebook hassaid, is to try to predict which people might be interested in the ad, based on their Facebook activity and the demographics it can pull from their personal pages—including age, gender, and other factors....

Nearly every company has had to adjust to a distributed working model since the pandemic hit, with workers now dispersed to a wide range of locations and time zones. One unexpected benefit of this massive paradigm shift is thatstartupstoday are better prepared than before to adapt to the demands of becoming a global organization, including those that I invest into as a General Partner at Frontline X, a growth-stage fund for US companies expanding toEurope....

HTC is a world-renowned phone manufacturing company known for creating quality handsets. However, given the cut-throat smartphone market today, manufacturers can’t be content to just deliver great hardware, but focus on that special oomph factor to set them apart from the rest as well. The Taiwanese manufacturer can only boast of its superior hardware but when it comes to the operating system, it has been piggybacking on two hot OSes today — Android and Windows Phone 7....

Inbox Zerois a productivity system that was developed byMerlin Mannof43 Folders. In a nutshell, Inbox Zero is exactly what it says on the label. It’s a system which is used to keep your email inbox as empty as possible, as a means of staying productive. Implementing Inbox Zero should help you stay on top of your emails, and deal with them efficiently. It consists of five labels you should keep in mind when processing your messages: delete, delegate, respond, defer and do....

With a rise in power-line networking uptake across the UK, GCHQ reported earlier this year that the technology is causing interference with its highly sensitive antennae. The UK’s Government Communication Headquarters (GCHQ), in its own words, “provides intelligence, protects information and informs relevant UK policy to keep our society safe and successful in the internet age.” GCHQ works in partnership with the Security Service (also known as MI5) and the Secret Intelligence Service (also known as MI6) to protect the UK’s national security interests....