Oxygen into wine
In vino veritas, they say, but you find more than truth in a good glass of red. Oxygen, in just the right amount, is crucial. The air-tight steel barrels often used for aging make it difficult and expensive to ensure a wine gets enough. Now New Zealand entrepreneurs have created the 鈥渨ine grenade鈥� 鈥� a small, cheap gadget that can be plonked into the tank to gradually release a specific amount of oxygen, making sure your red is perfectly breathed.
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Algorithmically racist
Two tech giants faced public outcry over embarrassing bugs this week. Searching a racial slur on Google Maps sent users to the White House. Meanwhile, Flickr鈥檚 automated image tagging had been labelling pictures of black people with the words 鈥渁pe鈥� and 鈥渁nimal鈥�, and pictures of Dachau concentration camp with 鈥渏ungle gym鈥�. Both companies apologised and pledged to fix the issues.
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