In an interview with NPR, Friar outlined steps the popular neighborhood app is planning to take to address reports of racial profiling and censorship on the platform. In an interview with NPR, Friar outlined steps the popular neighborhood app is planning to take to address reports of racial profiling and censorship on the platform. As protests swept the nation following the police killing of George Floyd, there was a surge of reports that Nextdoor, the hyperlocal social media app, was censoring posts about Black Lives Matter and racial injustice. In an interview with NPR, Nextdoor CEO Sarah Friar said the company should have moved more quickly to protect posts related to Black Lives Matter by providing clearer guidance. It "was really our fault" that moderators on forums across the country were deleting those posts, she said. People of color have long accused Nextdoor, which serves as a community bulletin board in more than 265,000 neighborhoods across the U.S., of doing nothing about users' racist comments and complaints.

Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. Amazon, which last week imposed a one-year ban on selling its controversial facial-recognition technology to the police, is being called out for a "performative" gesture amid the ongoing Black Lives Matter protests. That technology, known as Rekogntiion, has long drawn the ire of racial justice groups and civil liberties advocates, who claim it is biased against black people and should not be sold to law enforcement agencies in the U.S. "Corporations have been quick to share expressions of support for the Black Lives Matter movement following the public outrage over the murders of Black Americans like George Floyd at the hands of police," said Rep. Jimmy Gomez, D-Calif., in a letter to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. "Unfortunately, too many of these gestures have been performative at best. Calling on Congress to regulate facial recognition technology is one of these gestures. However, Amazon – as a global leader in technology and innovation – has a unique opportunity before them to put substantive action behind their sentiments of'solidarity with the Black community' by not selling a flawed product to police, and instead, play a critical role in ending systemic racism in our nation's criminal justice system," the California lawmaker continued.

Apple's Siri is supporting the Black Lives Matter movement by providing users who say'All Lives Matter' with a link to learn more about human rights initiative. When speaking the phrase to Siri, it will respond, 'All Lives Matter' is often used in response to phrase'Black Lives Matter,' but it does not represent the same concerns,' and then the technology prompts users to visit BlackLivesMatter.com. The update is to align with other businesses and organizations that are showing solidarity for the movement with worldwide protests following the death of George Floyd who was killed while in police custody last month. Apple also joins Amazon and Google, which have also updated their smart voice assistance to explain the Black Lives Matter movement to users. Apple's Siri is supporting the Black Lives Matter movement by providing users who say'All Lives Matter' with a link to learn more about human rights initiative Floyd was killed on May 25 in Minneapolis, Minnesota when Officer Derek Chauvin knelt on his neck until he lost consciousness – autopsies have since deemed the death a homicide.

Smart assistants are designed to tackle a whole host of everyday tasks, but some users are unhappy that this seems to include taking a stand on political issues. Amazon's Alexa has come under fire on social media thanks to the AI-powered speaker's thoughts on a number of hot button topics. Some have branded Alexa a'social justice warrior' because of her responses to questions on subjects ranging from feminism to the Black Lives Matter movement. Smart assistants are designed to tackle a whole host of everyday tasks but some users are unhappy that this seems to include taking a stand on political issues. Amazon's Alexa has come under fire thanks to the AI powered speaker's thoughts on a number of hot button topics The response has been particularly vociferous among the alt-right community on social media.

Brain study from Google AI lab could help develop cyborgs that know where they stand in society's pecking order Participants had brain scans while learning about fictional company structures Then they had to identify which of two firms people worked at from their images Researchers believe that the way humans' brains work out their place in social hierarchies could be applied to intelligent robots in future Researchers believe that the way humans' brains work out their place in social hierarchies could be applied to intelligent robots in future Brain signals automatically tell us how humans fit into social hierarchies, according to new research. The findings could help build intelligent robots that know where they stand in the pecking order in relation to humans. After learning about the power structures, they were shown pictures of individuals from each company. From this, they had to decide which company the person worked for. 'We found that the way in which participants learn about the power of individuals was best explained by a process of Bayesian inference' said Dharshan Kumaran, a research scientist at DeepMind.

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In just a short while, the press screening for the opening-night film of the 2016 New York Film Festival will begin. Members of the media will see "13th," the Ava DuVernay documentary about mass incarceration that was shot stealthily over the last year or so for Netflix. The movie brings a different feel to the annual gathering, which usually opens with a high-profile awards contender like "Captain Phillips" or "Life of Pi." "13th" traces the post-slavery history of African Americans in the United States, up to and including the corporatization of the prison industry that, the film argues, has had as many devastating effects on the black community and the country's moral fabric as slavery itself. It also marks a switch for DuVernay, who in films such as "Middle of Nowhere" and "Selma," has been exploring minority discrimination from the other side of the feature-doc divide. "It's always something on my mind," DuVernay said Thursday in an interview from the set of her new movie "A Wrinkle in Time," noting earlier films and characters, such as Ralph Bordelon and Too Sweet in her OWN series "Queen Sugar," that address the human side of imprisonment.

Being overweight carries with it a social stigma, as does being a man who embraces the feminine, but for those in the gay community who live at the intersection of such identities, life can be like the worst case of double jeopardy. To Jamal Lewis, however, who is also black and who identifies as "gender deviant," being fat and effeminate is a source of power and a subject worthy of exploration in a documentary titled "No Fats, No Femmes." "For me, I'm just interested in the spaces that people are afraid to occupy," said Lewis, who uses "he-she" as a gender pronoun. "I think there is something to be learned from what we are most afraid of, and so, if that's what I was taught to be afraid of, well [forget] that. I am the Fat Femme."