Algorithms · October 2022Gaffe level: Feral
Rent Going Up? One Company’s Algorithm Could Be Why.
A single company's pricing algorithm, YieldStar, may be quietly nudging your rent higher, and landlords across the country are happy to let it. When the software says raise the rent, everybody raises the rent.
Source: ProPublica
A Thought-Controlled Bionic Arm Moved Into Its First Home Trial
Avi Davidson, who lost his left arm 17 years ago, is the first person to take the University of Utah's thought-controlled LUKE Arm home for a full year. The direct nerve interface lets him move the arm with his thoughts and feel pressure and texture through it, so within days he was making a sandwich and holding his wife's hand.
Source: University of Utah