For more than a century, popular science fiction has promised us a future filled with robotics and AI technologies. In 2022, many of those dreams are being realized — computers recognize us on sight and cars can drive themselves, we’re building intelligent exoskeletons that multiply our strength and implanting computers in our skulls to augment our intelligence — but that doesn’t mean most of America trusts these breakthrough technologies any further than they can throw them. Quite the opposite, in fact.A recently published survey from Pew Research sought the opinions of some 10,260 US adults in November 2021 regarding their views on six technologies emerging in the fields of robotics and artificial intelligence/machine learning. Specifically, canvassers asked about both more mainstream systems like the use of facial recognition technology by police, the fake news-flagging algorithms used by social media platforms, and autonomous vehicle technology, as well as more cutting-edge ideas like brain-computer interfaces, gene editing and powered exoskeletons. The responses largely topped out at tepid, with minorities of respondents having even heard much about a given technology and even fewer willing to become early adopters once these systems are available to the general public.The Pew research team found a number of broad trends regarding which demographics were most accepting of these advances. College-educated white male Millennials and Gen Xers versed in the tech’s... Continue reading at 'Engadget'
[ Engadget | 2022-03-31 17:00:38 UTC ]
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For the past few decades, the main topic of conversation among those in the literary translation community has been about producing more titles. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-05-29 04:00:00 UTC ]
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New BookNet Canada research indicates that consumers who borrow books from libraries also purchase more books per month than those who don't use libraries. The post Canadian Study: Library Patrons Tell Researchers They Buy More Books appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2019-05-29 03:14:45 UTC ]
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In taking a 45% stake in the Illinois publisher, Penguin Random House can let a good thing be and benefit at the same time. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-05-24 04:00:00 UTC ]
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ESPN President Jimmy Pitaro says the sports network is “all hands on deck” to attract more women and younger viewers, a crusade that includes a new streaming service launched last year. The Walt Disney Co.-owned cable giant introduced its ESPN+ online service a year ago, and it has drawn over 2... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2019-05-23 22:01:09 UTC ]
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Consumer Reports filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission after finding that 8 out of 31 test accounts lacked the ability to turn off facial recognition. Updated 5/20 7:30 p.m. PST with Facebook comment.Read Full Story Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2019-05-20 18:15:48 UTC ]
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May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, and it’s the perfect time to discover some new stories about Asian people, places, food and culture. Continue reading at The Huffington Post
[ The Huffington Post | 2019-05-20 09:45:24 UTC ]
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Wealth didn’t make her family immune from insecurity and heartbreak, Janny Scott writes. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2019-05-17 11:47:32 UTC ]
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Scottish indie Charco Press has signed a distribution deal with Ingram's Consortium to break into the North American market. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-05-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Naomi Shihab Nye has become the first Arab American author to be named the Young People's Poet Laureate. Nye, a Palestinian American writer and longtime fixture of the San Antonio literary scene, is the seventh poet to be named to the post by the Poetry Foundation. Foundation Director Katherine... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2019-05-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Naomi Shihab Nye has become the first Arab American author to be named the Young People's Poet Laureate. Nye, a Palestinian American writer and longtime fixture of the San Antonio literary scene, is the seventh poet to be named to the post by the Poetry Foundation. Foundation Director... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2019-05-13 19:30:00 UTC ]
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The march of technology has brought a slew of changes to libraries and publishers, and of course even to BookExpo, which continues to experiment with different formats to serve its various constituencies across the book world. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-05-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The London Library has welcomed 38 authors onto its inaugural Emerging Writers Programme. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-05-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Led by sales of the graphic novel format, total sales of graphic novels and periodical comics in the U.S. and Canada were approximately $1.09 billion in 2018, according to a joint estimate by trade news sites ICv2 and Comichron. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-05-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sponsored by Submittable By and large, magazines have adapted to the digital world. They’ve stabilized their workforce and continue to combat falling subscription rates. Yet, there are two areas where publishers are still adjusting to a new normal. First, the amount of content that writers,... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2019-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The use of smart speakers is on the rise, as is car listening, in reported audiobook consumption in the Audio Publishers Association's 2019 annual survey. The post A First: APA Research Sees 50 Percent of Americans Listening to an Audiobook appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2019-04-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Academy of American Poets has announced the recipients of its inaugural fellowships,awarding 13 poets laureate across the U.S. with a combined $1,050,000 in recognition of their literary merit and to support civic programs. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-04-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Research combed from everything from movie tickets to social media finds more to focus on but less time to do soIt’s just as you suspected; the information age has changed the general attention span. A recently published study from researchers at the Technical University of Denmark suggests the... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2019-04-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Tennessee coach Rick Barnes has emerged as the latest front-runner in UCLA’s circuitous men’s basketball coaching search, providing a veteran candidate who has enjoyed a recent revival of a career spanning more than three decades. Barnes has interviewed with school officials, according to a... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2019-04-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Despite researchers’ efforts to target every race equally, they found that Facebook’s platform targeted by race anyway A new research paper published on Wednesday shows that Facebook’s ad targeting can discriminate by race and gender, even when advertisers request that their ads should be shown... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2019-04-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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“I’m doing the same thing that my ancestors did. I’m just telling the stories that I care about, that I love and that are relevant to me,” Jeffrey Veregge says. Continue reading at The Huffington Post
[ The Huffington Post | 2019-03-26 21:37:09 UTC ]
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