Plenty of stuff that works much better for white guys that speak English and with the right accent, because that’s who they are mostly trained on (image/speech recognition, spell check and translation, lots of medical stuff but that’s not very tech). Not sure about straight.
Edit: oh the image said cis, not straight. That’s easier.
I’m sure there are none, straight white guys are just a favorite villain around here.
I can think of a tech that doesn’t work as well on black people though: Pulse oximeters. A pulse oximeter works by shining two wavelengths of light through your finger to measure the amount of oxygen in your blood. It also sees your blood come and go with your pulse, so it can detect your heart rate. Well get this: melanin blocks light. A black man’s finger is more opaque than a white man’s finger, so optical pulse oximeters have been known to fail to detect hypoxia in dark skinned people. This problem has been known since the 70’s, and continues to be a problem to the present day. Because you know what happened recently? A global pandemic of a respiratory disease. Pulse oximeters failed to detect hypoxia in more black patients than white patients, who then weren’t given supplemental oxygen. So why in the last 50 years hasn’t that been addressed?
Dating apps and similar with insufficient moderation come to mind, or even ones that effectively paywall dickpics and harassment instead of removing it.
What apps only work for straight white guys?
Plenty of stuff that works much better for white guys that speak English and with the right accent, because that’s who they are mostly trained on (image/speech recognition, spell check and translation, lots of medical stuff but that’s not very tech). Not sure about straight.
Edit: oh the image said cis, not straight. That’s easier.
Not an app, but the Kinect had trouble with people of certain shades
Does truth social have an app?
I’m sure there are none, straight white guys are just a favorite villain around here.
I can think of a tech that doesn’t work as well on black people though: Pulse oximeters. A pulse oximeter works by shining two wavelengths of light through your finger to measure the amount of oxygen in your blood. It also sees your blood come and go with your pulse, so it can detect your heart rate. Well get this: melanin blocks light. A black man’s finger is more opaque than a white man’s finger, so optical pulse oximeters have been known to fail to detect hypoxia in dark skinned people. This problem has been known since the 70’s, and continues to be a problem to the present day. Because you know what happened recently? A global pandemic of a respiratory disease. Pulse oximeters failed to detect hypoxia in more black patients than white patients, who then weren’t given supplemental oxygen. So why in the last 50 years hasn’t that been addressed?
Dating apps and similar with insufficient moderation come to mind, or even ones that effectively paywall dickpics and harassment instead of removing it.
For gender nonconforming people, lots of forms.