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It used to make sense to believe something until it was debunked; now, it makes sense to assume certain claims are fake—unless they are verified.
You open your laptop in an airport, at a coffee shop, or perhaps in your hotel or conference room. You sit down to work, select the correct Wi-Fi network, and … nothing. Your Wi-Fi icon may show it's connected, but your browser says You are not connected to the internet...
Het ene toezicht is het andere niet. Er wordt semipermanent gelet op zowat al onze publieke gedragingen: camera's kijken of iedereen zich aan de snelheidsregels houdt, of niemand zich op straat agressief gedraagt, zakkenrolt in winkels of verdacht rondhangt. Vanmorgen las ik een reportage over de on...
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Rechtse alternatieve media als GeenStijl, The Post Online en De Dagelijkse Standaard waren aanjager maar werden uiteindelijk slachtoffer van de polariserende werking van online algoritmes. Nu is het zoeken naar inkomsten.
On Friday, the EU Commission published a piece on Medium that suggested that Google has taken over the minds of millions of citizens, rendering them incapable of thinking for themselves in their opposition of Article 13. The piece was later deleted with a note implying that people simply aren't capable of understanding the subtle nuances of the English language.
In Amsterdam en Barcelona wordt een nieuw soort slimme stad gebouwd. Een waar burgers – niet de techbedrijven – aan zet zijn.
I sometimes tell people that when technology evangelists espouse that their tool saves you time, that it’s a red flag warning / code talk for “I am lying”. But here, I share my on…
Filantropie: De Open Society Foundations van George Soros beschouwt Nederland als sleutelland in de strijd tegen „negatieve trends”. Met miljoenen euro’s aan tientallen organisaties, beïnvloedt Soros ook gevoelige maatschappelijke thema’s.
When Seamas O’Reilly responded to all his emails for a week using only Smart Reply, our columnist’s messages suddenly became spookily jaunty. Did his friends spot the difference?
I’ve seen how the GPT2 system can produce a column in exactly my style, says Guardian columnist Hannah Jane Parkinson
Color photography was optimized for light skin. Facial recognition technologies are just carrying on color film’s historical non-registry of black people.
In lighting, makeup and camera calibration, cinema has pandered to white skin for decades. Now, a new generation of film-makers are keen to ensure people of colour look as good on screen as they should
The Elon Musk-backed nonprofit company OpenAI declines to release research publicly for fear of misuse
How a cryptographer uses a key engraver
Despite ringing denunciations from small EU tech businesses, giant EU entertainment companies, artists' groups, technical experts, and human rights experts, and the largest body of concerned citizens in EU history, the EU has concluded its "trilogues" on the new Copyright Directive, striking a deal...
Beyond GIGO: how "predictive policing" launders racism, corruption and bias to make them seem empirical
Apple News is primed to offer a subscription bundle, but publishers should be wary of being Aggregated.
New plan, we are turning off service to your country.
Laws of UX is a collection of the maxims and principles that designers can consider when building user interfaces. It was created by <a href='http://jonyablonski.com'>Jon Yablonski</a>.
Geheimzinnig, big data, opsporing, spionage en adviseur van Trump; Palantir wekt nieuwsgierigheid als grote stille kracht van conservatief Amerika. Vooral door toedoen van mede-eigenaar Peter Thiel.
The news that Munich will migrate more than 20,000 PCs from a Linux-based desktop to Windows 10 from 2020, while a setback for the open-source software movement, isn't the gut punch it might seem.
Het videoplatform waar jij kattenfilmpjes en het doelpunt van de week terugkijkt, is ook verantwoordelijk voor een van de grootste problemen van onze tijd: de verspreiding van haat, leugens en racisme. Hoe meer filmpjes je op YouTube bekijkt, hoe extremer de inhoud die je krijgt voorgeschoteld. Dat blijkt uit onderzoek dat De Correspondent samen met de Volkskrant uitvoerde.
One of the world's greatest privacy invaders just had his privacy invaded.
As we pointed out back in 2012, the “Do Not Track” option doesn’t stop you from being tracked. It just sends a special piece of information whenever you connect to a website, asking that website not to track you. The vast, vast majority of websites ignored this. That never really changed. There was no penalty for ignoring the request and little reason to actually honor it.
When one critic hailed the company’s immersive show ‘game of the year’, founder Felix Barrett explored video games’ non-linear storytelling. Now he spies a new frontier for the stage
A reporter at the Washington Post says that an investigator hired by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos believes that text messages leaked to the National Enquirer between Bezos and his girlfriend may have been sent to the magazine by someone in gove
Elke zichzelf respecterende stad wil een smart city worden. De belofte: met een combinatie van technologie en data-analyse het leven in de stad veiliger, duurzamer, efficiënter maken. We toetsten die belofte op de grootste beurs op dit terrein ter wereld.
The New York Police Department (NYPD) called on Google to remove a feature in its map application that shows where drunk driving checkpoints are throughout the city.
Amazon is using purchase data to sell targeted ads, which is creepy, but not because they've invented a mind-control ray
Opinion: Cryptocurrencies are useless. Blockchain solutions are frequently much worse than the systems they replace. Here's why.
When an ISP decides to exempt certain applications or services from cutting into a user's data cap, that's zero rating. And the evidence is in that it conclusively makes broadband more expensive. A comprehensive multi-year study by the non-profit Epicenter.works, comparing the 30 member countries...
In 1998, I created Mandrake Linux, because I was both a Linux fan and didn’t like Windows on the desktop. It’s been a long time, and I’m…
Hoe ik op het geniale idee kwam is minstens zo belangrijk als het idee zelf. Stel, je achterhaalt hoe je een aha-moment krijgt. Dan kun je dat morgen gewoon weer krijgen, en de dag daarna weer. Dan hoef je nooit meer om geniale invallen verlegen te zitten. Het ei van Columbus is leuk – het recept ervoor is een revolutie.In Working Girl, een film uit 1988, vertelt bankmedewerkster Tess hoe ze op…
Wendell Primus told Blue Cross Blue Shield executives that Democratic leadership is more concerned with lowering drug prices and defending Obamacare.
Hired through an online gig economy platform, workers unknowingly helped Google improve its artificial intelligence military-targeting software.
Door Teun Dekker (hoogleraar, University College Maastricht – Maastricht University) In Nederland wordt al jaren gesproken over de kloof tussen het volk en de bestuurlijke elite. De gewone ma…
The web’s founders fully expected some form of digital payment to be integral to its functioning. But nearly three decades later, we're still waiting.
Fancy yourself a Todoist expert? Do you know all the best features? You may be surprised. Check out this list of 10 little-known features of Todoist!
News site says it wants to ensure its efforts are a ‘net positive’ for community, as some journalists doubt program’s effectiveness
Fifteen years ago, the social network site was set up to connect people. But now, with lives increasingly played out online, have we forgotten how to be alone?
All of Facebook's internal employee apps aren't working because of Apple. Employees aren't happy about it.
Big Tech does not control its users, however much it may want to
Facebook cancels its all-spying, secret "research" program, Apple cancels Facebook's developer account
Blackmailers use false copyright claims to shut down victims' Youtube accounts, offer to lift them in exchange for Bitcoin
Desperate for data on its competitors, Facebook has been secretly paying people to install a “Facebook Research” VPN that lets the company suck in all of a user’s phone and web activity, similar to Facebook’s Onavo Protect app that Apple banned in June and that was removed i…
Google wants to get rid of URLs. But first, it needs to show you why.
Citizen Lab has reported on surveillance software used to target dissidents around the world. Now it is being targeted by mysterious, if bumbling, spies.