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31 Mar Microsoft’s Lovable Teen Chatbot Turned Racist Troll Proves How Badly Silicon Valley Needs Diversity

In less than 24 hours, Microsoft’s artificial intelligence project modeled after an American teenage girl went from making awkward conversation in broken syntax to spewing hateful, fully formed tweets laden with racial slurs. But as startling as the offensive tweets were, the incident shows how...

31 Mar Dogpatch Labs celebrates diversity in tech

In the modern workplace, ensuring a diverse and representative environment is of the utmost importance for forward thinking organisations.

30 Mar Director of Google.org on challenges of unconscious bias

This year at SxSW, I kicked things off by attending a great talk with the director of Google.org, Jacquelline Fuller. She had a conversation with Hugh Forrest, and started by letting us know that to her Austin feels like a "Googley" city where everyone is very friendly.

29 Mar 6 secrets for success in the tech industry: Advice from the Women Who Code conference in Seattle

It can be difficult to be a woman working in technology. Men dominate the field, while women hover at about 20 percent of all employees in many big tech companies, despite making up 51 percent of the overall workforce. The absence of women in the field means that the industry can feel unwelcoming to women, and like a difficult place to build a successful career.