How Big Tech Created a Data ‘Treasure Trove’ for Police
By Matt O’Brien & Michael Liedtke Associated Press When U.S. law enforcement officials need to cast a wide net for information, they’re increasingly turning to the vast digital ponds of […]
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How Algorithms Discern Our Mood From What We Write Online
By Dana Mackenzie Knowable Magazine Many people have declared 2020 the worst year ever. While such a description may seem hopelessly subjective, according to one measure, it’s true. That yardstick […]
Privacy is Power
By Carissa Véliz Aeon Imagine having a master key for your life. A key or password that gives access to the front door to your home, your bedroom, your diary, […]
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 […]
Why Your Robot Car Should Ignore You
By Hod Lipson & Melba Kurman Nautilus In 2014, Google fired a shot heard all the way to Detroit. Google’s newest driverless car prototype had no steering wheel and no brakes. […]
What do Driverless Cars Mean for Policing?
By Robin Washington The Marshall Project If you’ve ever been pulled over for a broken taillight and suffered a punishing fine — or worse — you can take heart that […]
Who’s Liable When a Self-Driving Car Crashes?
By Corinne Iozzio Scientific American Valentine’s Day was a bummer in Mountain View, Calif. For the first time, one of Google’s self-driving cars, a modified Lexus SUV, caused a crash. Detecting […]
The Secret Rules of the Internet
By Catherine Buni & Soraya Chemaly The Verge Today, YouTube’s billion-plus users upload 400 hours of video every minute. Every hour, Instagram users generate 146 million “likes” and Twitter users send […]
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 […]
We are Hopelessly Hooked on our Smartphones
By Jacob Weisberg The New York Review of Books “As smoking gives us something to do with our hands when we aren’t using them, Timegives us something to do with […]
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