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posted by chromas on Thursday January 10 2019, @12:13AM   Printer-friendly
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CTA Announces $10 Million Fund Commitment to Women, Diverse Founders and Diverse Leadership Teams

The Consumer Technology Association (CTA) announced today at CES® – the world's largest and most influential tech event – that CTA will invest $10 million in venture firms and funds focused on women, people of color and other underrepresented startups and entrepreneurs.

"To continue to evolve and grow, the tech industry needs more equal access to venture funding," said Gary Shapiro, president and CEO, CTA. "Various research reports indicate diverse teams make better decisions and achieve greater profits. At CTA, this is one more tool we are deploying to help promote diversity in the technology industry."

CES revokes award from female-founded sex tech company

Sex tech has been done at the Consumer Electronics Show. This year, however, seems to be different, with the organization behind CES, the Consumer Technology Association, revoking an innovation award from a company geared toward women's sexual health.

The CTA revoked an innovation award from Lora DiCarlo, the company behind a hands-free device that uses biomimicry and robotics to help women achieve a blended orgasm by simultaneously simulating the G-spot and the clitoris. Called Osé, formerly known as Vela, the device uses micro-robotic technology to mimic the sensation of a human mouth, tongue and fingers in order to produce a blended orgasm for women.

"Vela does not fit into any of our existing product categories and should not have been accepted for the Innovation Awards Program," CTA Senior Manager of Event Communications Sarah Brown said in a statement to TechCrunch. "CTA has communicated this position to Lora DiCarlo. We have apologized to the company for our mistake."

[...] As Lora Haddock, founder and CEO of Lora DiCarlo, notes in an open letter today, CES has recognized products like ones from B.sensory and OhMiBod, which won the Digital Health and Fitness Product category in 2016. CES also allowed a virtual reality porn company to exhibit at the show in 2017, as well as a sex toy robot for men to exhibit in 2018.


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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by DeathMonkey on Thursday January 10 2019, @05:40PM (5 children)

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Thursday January 10 2019, @05:40PM (#784571) Journal

    Because business as usual isn't working. To continue to do the same thing and expect a different result is crazy.

    Also, this is a private organization. Who are you to tell others how they should spend their own money. If you don't like it, feel free to not be a member.

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by curunir_wolf on Thursday January 10 2019, @06:19PM (4 children)

    by curunir_wolf (4772) on Thursday January 10 2019, @06:19PM (#784602)

    Because business as usual isn't working. To continue to do the same thing and expect a different result is crazy.

    Actually, it's working really well, from a societal perspective. The rate of poverty is getting lower and lower, and the rate of poverty decline is accelerating. And that's all due to valuing individuals and creating hierarchies of competence.

    Can we do better? Sure, there are always problems. Corruption and bias will never be completely eliminated. But we should be working on those edge issues, not just trying to create a system where we can be biased against different groups.

    What this kind of effort is doing is NOT trying to fix issues around unfair biases (it's explicitly calling for bias), nor to create equal opportunities. It is looking to create equal outcomes, a dangerous proposition. Because everyone has different interests, capabilities, and conscientiousness. If you cast those aside because you want equal outcomes from people that are not really interested in tech, are not as competent as others, and not willing to work as hard, it's going to create a dystopian society. You can't get around the Pereto distribution, it's a law of nature. There's no way to make everyone the same.

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    • (Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday January 10 2019, @06:30PM (3 children)

      by DeathMonkey (1380) on Thursday January 10 2019, @06:30PM (#784604) Journal

      Well good for you. You have a different opinion on how to make the world a better place than they do. Go ahead and start your own charity focusing on men's issues and I promise to not complain about where you send your money.

      Or, donate some money to charities that focus on men's issues if you feel the funding is not equal. Might I suggest the Prostate Cancer Foundation. [pcf.org] Or, Is it bad they're trying to cure a disease that only effects men?

      • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 10 2019, @09:40PM (2 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 10 2019, @09:40PM (#784682)

        > Go ahead and start your own charity focusing on men's issues and I promise to not complain about where you send your money.

        Tell that to Earl Silverman.

        • (Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday January 10 2019, @11:04PM (1 child)

          by DeathMonkey (1380) on Thursday January 10 2019, @11:04PM (#784707) Journal

          Tell that to Earl Silverman.

          Never heard of him until now.

          Sounds like he ran his charity until he couldn't afford to anymore (then killed himself).

          Nobody stopped him from running it. Nobody stopped anyone from donating.

          • (Score: 2) by curunir_wolf on Friday January 11 2019, @12:00PM

            by curunir_wolf (4772) on Friday January 11 2019, @12:00PM (#784984)
            He was a man, so he was abused, ridiculed, and then disposed of, which is what today's feminist society does to men. And what CTA is explicitly doing. This is what you call "making the world better." Exactly what the Third Reich said they were doing.
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