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Facebook once built an internal app that let employees identify people using facial recognition and their phone cameras, Business Insider reported Friday. From the report: The app, which was developed between 2015 and 2016, utilised Facebook's vast collection of user identities to automatically reco...
A sophisticated new electronic warfare system is being used at the world’s busiest port. But is it sand thieves or the Chinese state behind it?
There needs to be a radical transformation of Facebook and Google's surveillance business model as it poses a systemic threat to human rights,
I was studying the effectiveness of a head-mounted device to stop motion sickness in driverless cars when something unexpected happened. One of the participants in my experiment reported that her tinnitus had dramatically improved, she scored 100% for motion sickness susceptibility so was of interes
The past couple years has seen a rise in prison profiteers who strike deals with state corrections departments to provide “free” tablets to prisoners (these being the flimsiest, cheapes…
Pakweg tien jaar geleden moest je er niet aan denken het woord ‘racisme’ hardop te noemen in Nederland. Nu lijkt het tij gekeerd en strijden steeds meer mensen tegen het monster dat institutioneel racisme heet. Vorige week
Ik wilde deze column niet schrijven. Dus ruimde ik het huis op, deed de was, speelde met mijn kater Flamouche. Maar sinds de weerzinwekkende aanval op antizwartepietactivisten, denk ik aan niets anders. Het kan slechter, hoor je wel eens over raciale ongelijkheid in Nederland. Omdat er bijvoorbeeld niet, zoals in de VS, onschuldige zwarte burgers door politieagenten neergeschoten worden. Alsof het…
A network of cooperative alternatives are replacing rampant exploitation with decent work.
CDA en D66 willen meer en duidelijkere regelgeving rondom gezichtsherkenningssoftware. Nu is het volgens de partijen nog te vaak onduidelijk wie de techniek inzet, en met welk doel.
Er meldde zich een ontdekkingsreiziger om te praten over de wildernis. Langzamerhand verbazen de onderwerpen me niet meer waarover mensen in gesprek willen. God, richtlijnen inzake het hergebruik van overheidsinformatie, romankunst, seks. Koffie drinken is in zo’n geval het beste. En dus zaten de onbekende man en ik in de betongrijze hal van een universiteitsgebouw, omdat ik daar toevallig toch…
Seven hundred pages of leaked documents reveal how Iranian spies have infiltrated every aspect of Iraqi political life.
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Survival — the pursuit of more time — is the most basic instinct. Procreation is a distan...
Survival — the pursuit of more time — is the most basic instinct. Procreation is a distan...
foster/ˈfɒstə/verb 1. Encourage the development of (something, especially something desirable). “the teacher’s task is to foster learning” TLDR: I made a personal bookshelf management web application and named it Foster and you can find it here. Here’s what I did (with gifs), so you might build your own. Name I named it Foster. Because of …
CodeFund is an open source platform that helps fund maintainers, bloggers, and builders through non-tracking ethical ads
More tactical diversity from the Hong Kong protests: “trilithons” — little stonehenges made of bricks or pavers that impede police vehicles. (Image: thumbnail from Ryan Ho Kilpatr…
“We might as well go down fighting.”
Small Technology Foundation Personal Web Prototype-01: an always-connected portable personal web server that fits in your pocket.
Imagine holding your personal web site in the palm of your hand. Imagine carrying the digital aspects of your self in your pocket instead of having them on some abstract cloud under the watchful eye of some faceless multinational corporation1.
Personal Web Prototype-01 from Small Technology Foundation R&D achieves the former using widely available off-the-shelf parts and Site.
Imagine holding your personal web site in the palm of your hand. Imagine carrying the digital aspects of your self in your pocket instead of having them on some abstract cloud under the watchful eye of some faceless multinational corporation1.
Personal Web Prototype-01 from Small Technology Foundation R&D achieves the former using widely available off-the-shelf parts and Site.
Google’s reputation has remained relatively unscathed despite behaviors similar to Facebook’s. This could be the tipping point
China’s state disinformation campaigns against the Hong Kong protesters are unwelcome on Youtube, Twitter and Facebook, with the mainstream platforms shutting down accounts that spread propag…
The following memo was written and circulated by me to all of Facebook’s employees around the world. It was sent November 8, 2018, shortly before my fina
Facebook still has a black people problem. And a problem with individual contributors who are not white.
Google, the real Aggregator, is squeezing OTAs, which acted like Aggregators while depending on Google for demand. It’s easy to say Google is being unfair, but this may be better for consumer…
One year after a black Facebook employee accused the social media giant of failing its black employees and users, a group of Facebook employees published an anonymous memo saying the culture at the company has only gotten worse for nonwhite workers.
Little-known companies are amassing your data — like food orders and Airbnb messages — and selling the analysis to clients. Here’s how to get a copy of what they have on you.
Foreign tourists in China looking to buy a bottle of water or a taxi ride are finding themselves out of luck, with many merchants only accepting money by QR code.
With little more than a text editor—and years of experience as a web developer—UI engineer Diana Adrianne Smith creates Flemish and baroque inspired portraits using HTML and CSS, the two primary presentation markup languages designed to display web pages. The portraits fill thousands of lines of cod
Privacy: Minister Ferd Grapperhaus (Justitie en Veiligheid, CDA) wil toegang tot versleutelde berichtendiensten als WhatsApp. Een gevaarlijk voorstel, meent Evelyn Austin. Noodzakelijk, stelt Rutger Rienks. Twistgesprek onder leiding van Maurits Chabot.
Fitbit says data of its 28 million users will not be sold or used for Google ads
The First Amendment is not about a law, but rather a culture — specifically a culture of liberty. It is essential to tech, and in this context, Facebook is mostly right about political ads (but can…
Adrien Mondot and Claire Bardainne, who work together as the Adrien M / Claire B Company (previously), explore the intersection of tangible and augmented reality in their multi-media projects. They recently launched a Kickstarter to support their latest project, Acqua Alta - Crossing the mirror. Acq
For three years, WIRED has tracked the elite and shadowy Russian vanguard of cyberwar.
De politie wil morele grenzen passeren. De krijgsmacht wil desinformatie verspreiden. Als gewone burger kan ik daarbij niet achterblijven. „It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day, it’s a new life for me.” Na vandaag ga ik liegen om de wereld beter te maken.Vorige week organiseerde de politie „op een waanzinnige locatie” een innovatiefestival onder de titel Crxssing Bxrders. Volgens de annonce ging men er…
Kan zoiets simpels als het ontwerp van een fiets bepalen hoe mensen met elkaar omgaan? Ik leerde rijden op een hoge bi – zo’n oerfiets met een enorm voorwiel en een klein achterwiel. Die maakt van de straat een openluchttheater – en van zijn berijder een charmeur.
Profvoetbalclub Hammarby IF uit Stockholm kan dit weekend Zweeds landskampioen worden. Een wiskundige en een natuurkundige dragen daaraan bij. Al denken ze zelf dat hun experiment maar 1 tot 2 procent verschil kan maken.
The following is a transcript of Elizabeth George's January 20, 2014 reading of Harvey Milk’s The Hope Speech, a
For years, the Internet Archive has been acquiring books (their goal is every book ever published) and warehousing them and scanning them. Now, these books are being “woven into WikipediaR…
Government regulation is the preferred mechanism among tech workers to ensure the consequences of technology for people and society are taken into account. But almost half of people in tech (45%) believe their sector is currently regulated too little.
UN Special Rapporteur released the preliminary findings of his sixth report on information and communication technology. They include tangible suggestions to internet companies and states whose current efforts to control hate speech online are failing to comply with the fundamental principles of human rights.
A letter to Mark Zuckerberg says the exemption is “a threat to what FB stands for” and called for the same standards as other adverts
A letter to Mark Zuckerberg says the exemption is “a threat to what FB stands for” and called for the same standards as other adverts
Hundreds of Facebook employees signed a letter decrying the decision to let politicians post any claims they wanted — even false ones — in ads on the site.
For a 22 year old, Joshua Browder has already made a few enemies
Dertig jaar geleden schreef de Amerikaanse filosoof Harry G. Frankfurt een essay over bullshit. Wat Sheila Sitalsing betreft kan het boekje zó opnieuw in de winkels worden gelegd, want aan de Nederlandse talkshowtafels doet gelul het beter dan feiten.
Het laatste nieuws over privacy en vrijheid.
‘Wie weet hier wat SyRI is?” Een belangrijke vraag, onlangs gesteld door een acteur aan een publiek, tijdens de voorstelling #niksteverbergen van De Verleiders. Nog geen tien handen. De zaal van het DeLaMar Theater zat vol (het was een slimme, goede voorstelling), eenzaam staken die handen boven de hoofden uit. Het verbaasde me dat het er zo weinig waren, want SyRI gaat ons allemaal aan.Nog één…
Special Projects - Paper PhonePaper Phone is an experimental app which helps you have a little break away from your digital world, by printing a personal booklet of the information you’ll need that day.