[Link] Jury Selection at the Charlottesville White Nationalist Trial Has Been Wild

Read: 28/10/2021 www.vice.com

Jury selection was always going to be an arduous and challenging process in Sines vs. Kessler, a massive civil suit brought by nine survivors of the violence in Charlottesville against 20 white nationalists, neo-Nazis, and their various organizations.

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[Link] Lego to remove gender bias from its toys after findings of child survey

Read: 12/10/2021 www.theguardian.com

Lego has announced it will work to remove gender stereotypes from its toys after a global survey the company commissioned found attitudes to play and future careers remain unequal and restrictive.

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[Link] AI Can Guess Your Race Based On X-Rays, and Researchers Don't Know How

Read: 23/8/2021 www.vice.com

As the U.S. Food and Drug Administration considers opening the door to a wider array of artificially intelligent medical devices, new research suggests that medical AI systems can perpetuate racial bias in health care in ways humans don’t understand and can’t detect.

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