Enlarge / A nurse uses a pulse oximeter on a patient in Plainfield, New Jersey, on October 26, 2016. reader comments 78 with 50 posters participating Share this story For years, studies have found racial bias in common oxygen measuring devices called pulse oximeters, as well as alarming dangers from inaccurate blood oxygen measurements in ..
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Enlarge / Amazon’s orange-yellow logo wall. reader comments 119 with 55 posters participating Share this story A senior manager at Amazon Web Services has filed suit against the company alleging race and gender discrimination, saying that she was underpaid, denied promotions, and sexually assaulted at the firm. Charlotte Newman, who is Black, began working at ..
Enlarge / A woman wearing a mask walks past a Rite-Aid store in Portland, Oregon, in May 2020. reader comments 63 with 43 posters participating Share this story Pharmacy chain Rite Aid deployed facial recognition technology in hundreds of store locations in the nation’s largest cities, particularly in low-income neighborhoods predominantly home to people of ..