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Human Capital: Moving away from ‘master/slave’ terminology

TechCrunch LA

You can sign up here. Now, Microsoft-owned GitHub is gearing up to remove these references to slavery by naming primary code repositories “main” instead of “master.” When racism is built into the technical framework of a company, it perpetuates a false idea that white people are superior to Black people. .

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Interview with Michael Witz, Mob Science

socalTECH

For San Diego-based Mob Science (www.mobscience.com), an injection of cash, some key advisors--and a deal with Zynga. We had a little success with Coffee Bar, Magic Mall, and Sony's Infinite Anarchy, and those games keep getting better and we kept learning about the framework, and added more talent to our team.

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The Future of Human-Robot Interaction

Xconomy

The panelists were JR Alaoui , CEO and co-founder of Eyeris , a deep learning and emotion recognition startup; Rob McHenry , vice president of public sector operations at PARC (and former DARPA program manager); and Leila Takayama , founder of Hoku Labs and a professor of psychology at UC Santa Cruz (formerly of GoogleX and Willow Garage).