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21 December, 2016

Inside Amazon's clickworker platform: How half a million people are being paid pennies to train AI. Internet platforms like Amazon Mechanical Turk let companies break jobs into smaller tasks and offer them to people across the globe. But, do they democratize work or exploit the disempowered?

http://www.techrepublic.com/article/inside-amazons-clickworker-platform-how-half-a-million-people-are-training-ai-for-pennies-per-task/

IBM EMPLOYEES ARE taking a public stand following a personal pitch to Donald Trump from CEO Ginni Rometty and the company’s initial refusal to rule out participating in the creation of a national Muslim registry.

https://theintercept.com/2016/12/19/ibm-employees-launch-petition-protesting-cooperation-with-donald-trump/

As programming, computing and technology skills become part of the essential skill sets for school leavers, demand for teaching in these areas is taking off. But the Department of Education has closed the MacICT Innovation Centre, its unique 15-year-old joint venture with Macquarie University that has been a pioneer in the area.

http://www.smh.com.au/national/education/hsc-results-2016-department-of-education-closes-macict-as-tech-student-numbers-plummet-20161213-gta4ue.html