How beauty filters took over social media - 0 views
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dr tech on 04 Apr 21"They are subjects in an experiment that will show how the technology changes the way we form our identities, represent ourselves, and relate to others."
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China Charges Ahead With a National Digital Currency - The New York Times - 0 views
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"If the eCNY is successful, it will give the central bank new powers, including novel types of monetary policy to help the economy grow. In one possibility that economists have discussed, a central bank could program its digital currency to slowly lose value so that consumers are encouraged to spend it immediately."
Study explores inner life of AI with robot that 'thinks' out loud | Robots | The Guardian - 0 views
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"The researchers programmed a robot called Pepper, made by SoftBank Robotics, with the ability to vocalise its thought processes. This means the robot is no longer a "black box" and its underlying decision-making is more transparent to the user."
After You Die, Microsoft Wants to Resurrect You as a Chatbot - 0 views
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"Last month, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office granted a patent to Microsoft that outlines a process to create a conversational chatbot of a specific person using their social data. In an eerie twist, the patent says the chatbot could potentially be inspired by friends or family members who are deceased, which is almost a direct plot of a popular episode of Netflix's Black Mirror."
Robots may soon be able to reproduce - will this change how we think about evolution? |... - 0 views
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"But could robots ever reproduce? This, undoubtedly, forms a pillar of "life" as shared by all natural organisms. A team of researchers from the UK and the Netherlands have recently demonstrated a fully automated technology to allow physical robots to repeatedly breed, evolving their artificial genetic code over time to better adapt to their environment. Arguably, this amounts to artificial evolution. Child robots are created by mixing the digital "DNA" from two parent robots on a computer."
One in three councils using algorithms to make welfare decisions | Society | The Guardian - 0 views
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"One in three councils are using computer algorithms to help make decisions about benefit claims and other welfare issues, despite evidence emerging that some of the systems are unreliable."
Click Restraint: Crash Course Navigating Digital Information #9 - YouTube - 0 views
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"The architecture of the social internet itself tells us not to be patient - to load more tweets, to hit refresh for new posts, and to click the top search results."
On social media everyone is a hero or zero. We must embrace the complexity of real life... - 0 views
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"I do want us all to be non-binary in how we think about the big issues, however. It was deeply saddening to see the abuse Malala Yousafzai got on social media last week because she is mates with a Tory. On Facebook she had endorsed a young woman who is standing for president of the Oxford Student Conservative Association. She said her friend was talented and this was not a personal reflection of her own political views."
Can we escape from information overload? | 1843 - 0 views
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"Our brains tend to lean on the visual, heavily prioritising sight over the other four senses. Ever since we climbed on to two feet as a species, taking our noses farther from the aroma-rich savannah floor, we have been wired to be seeing creatures and for better or worse we usually experience the what's-next-what's-next of this world through our peepers."
Covid-19 makes it clearer than ever: access to the internet should be a universal right... - 0 views
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"Life went on - with limited disruption, if not quite as normal. After all, I have enough space, equipment and internet connectivity to work comfortably from home. In some ways, life has become more efficient. Less jet lag. More sanity."
Britain to get first commercial refinery for extracting precious metals from e-waste | ... - 0 views
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"The UK's impending exit from the EU has provided an urgent economic need for such a facility - a UN report last month found at least $10bn (£7.9bn) of gold, platinum and other precious metals were dumped every year in a growing mountain of e-waste."
Twitter Bots: An Analysis of the Links Automated Accounts Share | Pew Research Center - 0 views
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"The role of so-called social media "bots" - automated accounts capable of posting content or interacting with other users with no direct human involvement - has been the subject of much scrutiny and attention in recent years. "
The American Economy Was Just Blasted Years Into the Future | Marker - 0 views
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"Our Economy Was Just Blasted Years Into the Future The crisis is compressing and accelerating trends that would have taken decades to play out"
Microsoft sacks journalists to replace them with robots | Technology | The Guardian - 0 views
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"Around 27 individuals employed by PA Media - formerly the Press Association - were told on Thursday that they would lose their jobs in a month's time after Microsoft decided to stop employing humans to select, edit and curate news articles on its homepages."
Facebook will pay moderators $52 million settlement for psychological harm - 0 views
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"Facebook has agreed to pay $52 million to its content moderators as compensation for mental health issues caused by their work. The internet is already generally a cesspool of filth and cruelty, so one can only imagine the incredibly horrific things its moderators are forced to witness every day."
Naomi Klein: How big tech plans to profit from the pandemic | News | The Guardian - 0 views
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"This is a future in which, for the privileged, almost everything is home delivered, either virtually via streaming and cloud technology, or physically via driverless vehicle or drone, then screen "shared" on a mediated platform. "
Surveillance company harassed female employees using its own facial recognition technol... - 0 views
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"A surveillance startup in Silicon Valley is being accused of sexism and discrimination after a sales director used the company's facial recognition system to harass female workers. Verkada, which was valued in January at $1.6 billion, equips its office with its own security cameras. "
The Surgeon Who Wants to Connect You to the Internet with a Brain Implant | MIT Technol... - 0 views
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"But Leuthardt, for one, expects he will live to see it. "At the pace at which technology changes, it's not inconceivable to think that in a 20-year time frame everything in a cell phone could be put into a grain of rice," he says. "That could be put into your head in a minimally invasive way, and would be able to perform the computations necessary to be a really effective brain-computer interface.""
Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen details company's misleading efforts on 60 Minute... - 0 views
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"Frances Haugen: When we live in an information environment that is full of angry, hateful, polarizing content it erodes our civic trust, it erodes our faith in each other, it erodes our ability to want to care for each other, the version of Facebook that exists today is tearing our societies apart and causing ethnic violence around the world. 'Ethnic violence' including Myanmar in 2018 when the military used Facebook to launch a genocide. "
DeepMind is developing one algorithm to rule them all | VentureBeat - 0 views
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"DeepMind is trying to combine deep learning and algorithms, creating the one algorithm to rule them all: a deep learning model that can learn how to emulate any algorithm, generating an algorithm-equivalent model that can work with real-world data."
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