DevNews S1E8 (Season Finale!) Twitter’s Algorithmic Bias, Coalition for App Fairness, Strava’s Data Share, & more 🤖
Tags: discuss, meta, news, podcast
Published: 2020-10-01 15:02:15

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title: DevNews S1E8 (Season Finale!) Twitter’s Algorithmic Bias, Coalition for App Fairness, Strava’s Data Share, & more 🤖
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description: The final episode in this season of DevNews — the show about the latest topics in the world of tech — hosted by Saron Yitbarek, Josh Puetz, and myself!
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### Don’t miss the final episode of DevNews season one! 😭


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### **In the season finale, my co-host [Saron](https://dev.to/saronyitbarek) and I checked back in on several stories we covered over the course of our first season of DevNews, _and_ also covered some developing stories**: 

- **Ruby 3.0.0 Preview, released!** In [episode 2](https://dev.to/devteam/s1e2-of-the-devnews-podcast-out-today-18g5), we covered Ruby 3's new language for type signatures called RBS. A preview is now available for you to play with. Have fun!
- **React 17 developments**. We also talked about React 17 in episode 2 and the surprising revelation that this release wouldn't include any new features. In this episode, we discuss the recent announcement that React 17 will provide support for a new version of the JSX transform.
- **Microsoft and OpenAI** In our [premiere episode](https://dev.to/devteam/introducing-devnews-a-new-podcast-from-dev-3b7m), we covered GPT-3: OpenAI's autocomplete program. In today's episode, we talk about Microsoft's announcement that it will exclusively license GPT-3.
- **Strava's massive data-sharing plans** In an email to its users, Strava recently disclosed that they actively share activity data. We explore the basis and implications of this. 

### **Saron and I also chatted with two guests in this episode.**
- **[Alex Hanna](https://twitter.com/alexhanna)**, research scientist working on machine learning fairness and ethical AI at Google. Alex spoke with us about reports of photo algorithmic bias on Twitter.
- **[Sarah Maxwell](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-maxwell-9370a4a/)**, Spokesperson for the Coalition for App Fairness. Sarah filled us in on the Coalition for App Fairness and its efforts to make the app marketplace a more even playing field for developers.


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I hope you tune in to the DevNews podcast, where we cut through the impossibly noisy news cycle to surface developer stories that impact many of us in this space. 🗞️🗞️🗞️ 

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