What The California Wildfires Can Teach Us About Data Sharing
We need to start using data for more than commercial exploitation, deploying it to understand the long-term effects of policy and create transparency around those in power — not of private citizens.

December 11, 2018 at 09:28AM
via Digg https://ift.tt/2G8GLmc

‘Adam Ruins Everything’ Explains Why The Government Is Basically Responsible For All Our Tech Monopolies
Tech companies would like you to believe they build up their businesses all on their own, but we as taxpayers are actually responsible for a huge part of their success.

December 11, 2018 at 06:56AM
via Digg https://ift.tt/2QteKuj

The Key To Cracking Long-Dead Languages?
Tablets from some of the world’s oldest civilizations hold rich details about life thousands of years ago, but few people today can read them. New technology is helping to unlock them.

December 11, 2018 at 06:56AM
via Digg https://ift.tt/2RORPWV

What Happens When 25,000 Amazon Workers Flush Toilets?
It might seem mundane, but what happens in the bathroom matters: New York, for all its modern conveniences, sits atop a century-old sewage system used by more people than ever before.

December 11, 2018 at 12:57AM
via Digg https://ift.tt/2QLGEkB

Should We Be Worried About Computerized Facial Recognition?
The technology could revolutionize policing, medicine, even agriculture — but its applications can easily be weaponized.

December 10, 2018 at 09:48PM
via Digg https://ift.tt/2B5qI2M

YouTube Bans Proud Boys Founder Gavin McInnes, Latest Tech Giant To Boot Him
The YouTube account of Gavin McInnes — the founder of far-right organization Proud Boys and one of the co-founders of Vice Magazine — was terminated Monday because of repeated copyright violations, according to a message posted on his account page.

December 10, 2018 at 08:45PM
via Digg https://ift.tt/2GceBXv

Sorry, Your Data Can Still Be Identified Even It’s Anonymized
Urban planners and researchers at MIT found that it’s shockingly easy to “reidentify” the anonymous data that people generate all day, every day in cities.

December 10, 2018 at 04:02PM
via Digg https://ift.tt/2Pv7etx

The Content Library Killed The Book Cover
What is lost when we “watch Netflix” rather than shows and “listen to Spotify” rather than songs?

December 10, 2018 at 02:53PM
via Digg https://ift.tt/2QMxHaG

Why We All Take The Same Travel Photos
That script, staged again and again by countless visitors, reflects how photography has always shaped the travel experience — for good or bad.

December 10, 2018 at 02:53PM
via Digg https://ift.tt/2UwJCbW

I Bought This Custom 18-Million Pixel Workstation on Craigslist, and It Very Nearly Ruined Me
I failed the rig. I can’t computer hard enough to handle it.

December 10, 2018 at 02:08PM
via Digg https://ift.tt/2RMgHi4