Life Without the Tech Giants
By Kashmir Hill Gizmodo Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Apple collectively make products that we love, products that we hate (but can’t stop using), and products that dictate how we […]
Tag Archives: Big Data
There’s Nowhere to Hide on the Internet
By Thomas Beller The New Yorker Sometime before dawn on March 29th, not too many hours after Congress approved legislation that allows Internet-service providers to sell your browsing history to […]
ISIS and the Social Media War
By Brendan I. Koerner Wired The Islamic State recognized the power of digital media early on, when its brutish progenitor, Jordanian jihadist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, discovered the utility of uploading grainy […]
Predicting Future Crime
By Maurice Chammah The Marshall Project Predicting crime has always been part of police work; any beat cop can tell you that a particularly dark street corner is vulnerable to […]
