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Don’t miss Issie Lapowsky’s interesting profile of David Carroll on WIRED, the professor who has spent years trying to get his personal data from Cambridge Analytica. Some excerpts: For more than two years, Carroll, a professor of media design at The New School in Manhattan, has been on an obsessive, epically nerdy, and ultimately […]
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Nice short take from Courtney Humphries on the emerging business of digital afterlife in WIRED. It’s an issue I have written about before and that will only grow in the future. Some highlights: Hossein Rahnama knows a CEO of a major financial company who wants to live on after he’s dead, and Rahnama thinks he […]
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Don’t miss WIRED’s quick and handy review of Bitcoin’s impact as it turns ten years old. Some highlights: Today Bitcoin is a global phenomenon. Individual bitcoins sell for thousands of dollars. The price has dropped steeply from its peak of nearly $20,000 in December 2017, but recall that, at the beginning of 2017, one […]
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Don’t miss this piece by Renee DiResta (Director of research at New Knowledge, and a Mozilla fellow on media, misinformation and trust) on Wired about the extent of the misinformation problem on the internet today. Some highlights: But, ultimately, what the government—and the general public—is realizing is that while disinformation, misinformation, and social media hoaxes […]
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There is an interesting video/post on wired.com on what does it mean to call something a “robot”? Some highlights: “I would say that a robot is a physically embodied artificially intelligent agent that can take actions that have effects on the physical world,” says roboticist Anca Dragan of UC Berkeley. According to that definition, a […]
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