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class war When the HR department is a robotic phrenologist: "face-scanning algorithm" gains popularity as a job-applicant screener Cory Doctorow

Business Police cameras to be augmented with junk-science "microexpression" AI lie-detectors Cory Doctorow

AI Babysitter vetting and voice-analysis: Have we reached peak AI snakeoil? Cory Doctorow

racism Machine learning hucksters invent an AI racist uncle that predicts your personality from your facial bone structure Cory Doctorow

happy mutants The Lie Behind the Lie Detector: how to beat the pseudoscientific polygraph Cory Doctorow

gwot Internal TSA files reveal that they have no evidence the $1B "behavioral detection" program works Cory Doctorow

Business Company says facial features reveal terrorists and pedophiles 80% of the time Cory Doctorow

corruption Ted Cruz campaign hires dirty data-miners who slurped up millions of Facebook users' data Cory Doctorow

Funny McSweeney's: sure, Bernie is incredibly popular, but can he sway the "completely hateable assholes, who want what’s worst for everyone?" Cory Doctorow

Daniel Clowes A better-than-perfect facsimile of an iconic comic book Mark Frauenfelder

Dr. Chase’s Receipt Book: delightfully awful medical nonsense Kelly Kittell

Resurrecting the Dead: what did Jane Austen look like? Linda Rodriguez

Science Who’s afraid of the amygdala? Research blows away "fear center" myth Maggie Koerth