The Fair Housing Act ("FHA"), enacted more than fifty years ago, prohibits discriminatory practices in housing. The FHA makes it illegal to "make unavailable or deny . . . In many jurisdictions, it is also illegal to discriminate on the basis of income (e.g. But recent technological advancements have raised new questions about the statute's reach--both in terms of which entities may be liable for violating the FHA and what new technologies may run afoul of the statute's prohibitions. For example, companies that use, facilitate, or support digital advertising need to be particularly cognizant of the FHA's purview.

By M. Marin OTC:VQSLF TSX:VQS READ THE FULL VQSLF RESEARCH REPORT VIQ Solutions (VQSLF) (VQS.V) operates a secure technology platform that offers artificial intelligence (AI) enabled video capture software and audio recording with voice-to-text capabilities. Speech recognition is an underlying foundation of the VIQ AI-enabled transcription platform. The company is focused on highly compliant, security-focused and regulated markets. VIQ, customers can obtain higher volume per worker and lower unitary cost and production time, according to management. Affordable devices that enable the collection of significant volumes of audio and video information are expected to drive new opportunities for VIQ.

TEHRAN - Iran's Revolutionary Guard shot down a U.S. surveillance drone Thursday in the Strait of Hormuz, marking the first time the Islamic Republic directly attacked the American military amid tensions over Tehran's unraveling nuclear deal with world powers. The two countries disputed the circumstances leading up to an Iranian surface-to-air missile bringing down the U.S. Navy RQ-4A Global Hawk, an unmanned aircraft with a wingspan larger than a Boeing 737 jetliner and costing over $100 million. Iran said the drone "violated" its territorial airspace, while the U.S. called the missile fire "an unprovoked attack" in international airspace over the narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf and President Donald Trump tweeted that "Iran made a very big mistake!" Trump later appeared to play down the incident, telling reporters in the Oval Office that he had a feeling that "a general or somebody" being "loose and stupid" made a mistake in shooting down the drone. The incident immediately heightened the crisis already gripping the wider region, which is rooted in Trump withdrawing the U.S. a year ago from Iran's 2015 nuclear deal and imposing crippling new sanctions on Tehran.

CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA - Americans prefer a space program that focuses on potential asteroid impacts, scientific research and using robots to explore the cosmos over sending humans back to the moon or on to Mars, a poll shows. The poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, released Thursday, one month before the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, lists asteroid and comet monitoring as the No. 1 desired objective for the U.S. space program. About two-thirds of Americans call that very or extremely important, and about a combined 9 in 10 say it's at least moderately important. The poll comes as the White House pushes to get astronauts back on the moon, but only about a quarter of Americans said moon or Mars exploration by astronauts should be among the space program's highest priorities. About another third called each of those moderately important.

TEHRAN, Iran – Iran's state-run IRNA news agency says the country's Revolutionary Guard has shot down a U.S. drone. The U.S. military declined to immediately comment. IRNA said Thursday the drone was hit when it entered Iranian airspace near the Kouhmobarak district in southern Iran's Hormozgan province. IRNA, citing the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, identified the drone as an RQ-4 Global Hawk. Bill Urban, a U.S. Central Command spokesman, declined to comment when asked if an American drone was shot down.

It's not hard to find a good story in the tech industry. The problem is that due to the industry's staggering gender gap, most of these stories center on the struggles and accomplishments of men. In this article, we aim to provide a platform for female technologists to share the stories of how they got into engineering, the biggest challenges they've faced, and their advice to the next generation of women in tech. You'll meet a former geologist turned product manager, an academic who fell in love with data science, a senior tech leader who discovered her dream job after the first two companies she worked for folded, and more. CCC's technology solutions are designed to increase connectedness among companies in the automotive industry, including insurance carriers, manufacturers, parts suppliers and collision repair shops. Ranjini Vaidyanathan was in academia and earned a PhD before realizing she had a passion for data science. While changing focuses wasn't always easy, Vaidyanathan said the transition was made easier by some simple, yet powerful, advice from her mentors. "When the going gets tough, what'll help you pull through is your passion for the technical work." How did you get into engineering? I studied applied science and mathematics before finally switching to data science after my PhD. It took me some time to decide what, exactly, I wanted to pursue. I had been doing pen-and-paper theory work as a student, but after a certain point, I realized I found applied problems more interesting. What's the biggest challenge you've faced in your career, and how have you worked to overcome it? Switching fields from academia to data science was challenging. I had to brush up industry-relevant skills like programming, and also adjust to the paradigm shift in thinking, both in terms of technical and soft skills.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Americans prefer a space program that focuses on potential asteroid impacts, scientific research and using robots to explore the cosmos over sending humans back to the moon or on to Mars, a poll shows. The poll by The Associated Press and the NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, released Thursday, one month before the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, lists asteroid and comet monitoring as the No. 1 desired objective for the U.S. space program. About two-thirds of Americans call that very or extremely important, and about a combined 9 in 10 call it at least moderately important. The poll comes as the White House pushes to get astronauts back on the moon, but only about a quarter of Americans said moon or Mars exploration by astronauts should be among the space program's highest priorities. About another third called each of those moderately important.

A Commons committee was left baffled as video game executives appeared to deny making money from their own games, admit to ignoring regulations governing data protection and age restrictions, and claim ignorance over how much time their own users were spending on games. Representatives from Epic Games, makers of Fortnite: Battle Royale, and EA Games, the publisher of the Fifa series of football games, appeared as witnesses in front of the Commons Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport committee as part of its inquiry into immersive and addictive technologies. Both games have been the subject of intense scrutiny after reports of children spending an unhealthy amount of time and money on them, with Prince Harry making an unusual public attack on Fortnite in April: "That game shouldn't be allowed," he said. "It's created to addict, an addiction to keep you in front of a computer for as long as possible. But rather than address the concerns directly, both companies flatly denied that there was a problem, even while admitting that they did not collect the data required to answer many of the committee's questions. When presented with Harry's remarks, Epic's general counsel, Canon Pence, said they "couldn't be further from the truth about our ethics and design philosophy". He added: "It's always been our effort and intent to create a fun, fair, flexible, engaging and generous form of interactive entertainment.

You go around a curve, and suddenly see something in the middle of the road ahead. Of course, the answer depends on what that'something' is. A torn paper bag, a lost shoe, or a tumbleweed? You can drive right over it without a second thought, but you'll definitely swerve around a pile of broken glass. You'll probably stop for a dog standing in the road but move straight into a flock of pigeons, knowing that the birds will fly out of the way.

Hossein Salami, the commander-in-chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, addressing the issue at a military ceremony in Sanandaj, Iran, said the drone had been shot down in Iranian airspace. "We are not going to get engaged in a war with any country, but we are fully prepared for war," Mr. Salami said, according to a translation from Press TV. "Today's incident was a clear sign of this precise message so we are continuing our resistance." The Revolutionary Guards said in a separate statement that the aircraft was an American-made Global Hawk surveillance drone, according to Press TV. American officials said last week that Iran had fired a surface-to-air missile at a drone over the Gulf of Oman, on the same day that two oil tankers were attacked.