(Photo : Screenshot from Twitter post of @TheEricAlper) Lou Ottens Passed Away at Age 94: Here s How His Cassette Tape Helps Shape the Music Industry
Lou Ottens, the inventor of the cassette, has died at age 94.
Without him, there are no mixtapes, no playlists, no use for a pencil.
Ottens invention is one of the innovations that changed how the music industry works. Without his cassette tape, music platforms today might have been different.
According to Engadget s latest report, the tech inventor started working on his cassette tape way back in the early 1960s. His invention was the solution to the large reel-to-reel tapes that provided high-quality sound.
20 February 2021, 6:11 am EST By YouTube AI could have mistakenly blocked a channel of a chess streamer due to alleged racist remarks. ( George Becker from Pexels )
It might be unbelievable at first that a YouTube algorithm has detected a chess discussion as racist and flagged it for punishment. In the case of the chess YouTuber, he was blocked by the video-streaming company for the alleged, sensitive issue.
YouTube AI Could Have Mistakenly Perceived The Chess Chat As Racist
The incident happened in June 2020 and people have entirely no idea why the algorithm blocked the streamer from making his content videos about chess. At the very least, it could have known that the video was flagged as harmful and dangerous content. Maybe, it recognized an amount of hate speech in the discussion forum if that was the case.