Wednesday, December 23, 2009

HP Computers are Racist?


Pretty tough for an object to be racist but it sure seems like HP's new tracking webcam solution wasn't designed or tested with black folks in mind.

As someone who has been working in the field for many years now, I can state that black folks seem to be very underrepresented in the rank and file of technology workers. With the variation in skin tones and facial structures you will never get a tracking camera to capture everyone but apparently failing to track such huge portions of the American and world populations... Wow, what a mistake. Hopefully the tech companies take note and revise their testing matrices.

I bet some folks of African descent were just transferred in to or hired by HP's Quality Assurance department for this product and that the next version will work better for everyone.

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