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Uber was the most valuable private company in history, but the public market has not been as enthusiastic. The reason explains a lot about how the tech industry works.
We moeten stoppen elkaar angst aan te praten over een naderende robot-apocalyps. In doemscenario’s over verdwijnende banen door kunstmatige intelligentie worden mensen structureel onderschat, schrijft Robert Went. En de mogelijkheden van nieuwe technologieën? Die overschatten we des te meer.
Archive of Our Own, the fanfiction database recently nominated for a Hugo, has perfected a system of tagging that the rest of the web could emulate.
In spite of all the money and political capital pouring into the ed-tech sector, there’s precious little evidence suggesting that it has improved teaching and learning.
Inside Spotify’s emotional surveillance-driven quest for total ad domination.
Those protesting against the contentious extradition bill have learned the lessons of 2014. They are tolerant of different views, careful with their identities and freed by a lack of leadership.
Rightwing academic enlists failed Ukip MEP candidate Carl Benjamin to test subscription-only platform
Ondanks de nieuwe regels kopte het onderzoeksplatform Pointer begin april ‘Jan-Willem weer de fout in’. Volgens de redactie heeft Schut onder meer het horloge van een verdachte in beeld gebracht en is de naam van een partner van een verdachte niet weggepiept. De politievlogger zucht. Die herleidbaarheid is niet zo zwart-wit, vindt hij. Wat de één een herkenbaar T-shirt vindt, vindt de ander niet herleidbaar. Bovendien: ‘Sommige mensen springen letterlijk op mijn nek om maar in beeld te komen. Laatst hadden we een vuurwapengevaarlijke man aangehouden. Terwijl hij zijn handboeien om kreeg, draaide hij zich om en vroeg hij: hé Jan-Willem, wanneer komt dit op YouTube?’
When you take a commercial genetic test, you opt your whole family into warrantless state genetic surveillance
Last month Facebook declined to remove a manipulated video of Nancy Pelosi even after it was viewed millions of times
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Geert Wilders heeft een halve dag geen gebruik kunnen maken van zijn Twitter-account. Het was een straf van het bedrijf omdat de politi...
John de Mol eist dat Facebook reclame met zijn portret voorgoed blokkeert. Over een gelijksoortige eis kwam een belangrijke uitspraak uit Straatsburg.
EFF has joined a coalition of civil rights and civil liberties organizations to support a California bill that would prohibit law enforcement from applying face recognition and other biometric surveillance technologies to footage collected by body-worn cameras.About five years ago, body cameras...
A review of the potential antitrust cases against Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon suggests that only Google is vulnerable.
Apple says an elaborate rotating key scheme will soon let you track down your stolen laptop, but not let anyone track you. Not even Apple.
At Monday’s WWDC conference, Apple announced a cool new feature called “Find My”. Unlike Apple’s “Find my iPhone”, which uses cellular communication and the lost…
Posted by Paul Dille, Senior Software Developer, Carnegie Mellon University CREATE Lab, and Chris Herwig, Geo Data Engineer, Google Earth Ou...
This year’s WWDC presented an Apple that was finally ready to move past the iPhone.
Demonstrators cover bodies with stickers to ensure nipples on display are ‘male’, in line with Facebook policy
Heel mooi stuk dat laat zien hoe pragmatisch je moet zijn als je mensen wilt beveiligen. Plus deze man is een meesterlijke en hilarische schrijver.
Don’t expect the Chinese to roll over in the fight against the tech giant
A post-mortem of the Uber and Lyft IPOs.
NYPL provides access to over 500 electronic resources and we want to share some of our best kept secrets.
Seven experiments produced similar results leading researchers to conclude that higher social class predicts unethical behaviour, writes Diarmuid Pepper.
How DRM has permitted Google to have an "open source" browser that is still under its exclusive control
For the social-media platform, a doctored video of Nancy Pelosi is content, not a phony.
You can outsource pretty much every aspect of irritation in your life. But you can’t outsource loneliness
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Check 2G, 3G, and 4G LTE Network Frequency Compatibility for a Smartphone, Tablet, and Mobile Device in any Country and Mobile Network Carrier
Some student loan borrowers are packing their bags and fleeing to other countries, where the cost of living is lower and debt collectors wield less power.
Just look at this suspect's gun that turned out to be a banana
How the industrial revolution caused interest from the fashion industry after 150 years.
Bij geschiedenis op de Nederlandse scholen staat de Europese geschiedenis centraal. In de huidige ‘tien tijdvakken’ blijven belangrijke historische gebeurtenissen onderbelicht. Daarom: een voorstel om het lesmateriaal aan te vullen.
The social media giant is planning to set up a crypto-currency in around 12 countries by early 2020.
The century-old tradition that the Espionage Act not be used against journalistic activities has now been broken. Seventeen new charges were filed yesterday against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. These new charges make clear that he is being prosecuted for basic journalistic tasks, including...
The Data Transparency Advisory Group just released an independent assessment of whether the metrics we share in our enforcement report are accurate and meaningful.
Dreigingsbeeld: De Coördinator Terrorismebestrijding komt terug op een vermelding van de actiegroep Kick Out Zwarte Piet in een rapport uit 2017. De groep „opereert binnen de grenzen van de wet”.
The long read: In 2017, I started getting regular messages from an anonymous Twitter user telling me my religion was ‘evil’. Eventually I responded – and he agreed to meet face to face
Female-voiced tech often gives submissive responses to queries, Unesco report finds
Facebook’s former chief security officer said Tuesday that Mark Zuckerberg should be replaced as the company’s CEO, arguing that he has too much control over the social media giant.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Daily Dot: A consumer advocacy group has found that not all Facebook users have been given the ability to opt out of the company's facial recognition. According to Consumer Reports, despite Facebook rolling out a new privacy setting last year allowing use...
If there is a new tech cold war, it is one with shots fired over a decade ago, largely by China. The questions going forward are about both leverage and values.
Ren Zhengfei says firm is fully prepared to face US bans and that 5G plans will be unaffected
On the eve of European elections, the tech giants stand accused of sabotaging the European Union’s fight against disinformation.
Experts worry that dark money groups and foreign actors could use the loophole to mislead users.
