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The cypherpunks were wrong (but also right) | Continue reading
The search for a crypto use-case continues | Continue reading
Police can access everything from “pokes” to private Messenger data — and increasingly do | Continue reading
Six months ago, it was worth $4 billion. Now it’s #60 in the App Store’s ‘social networking’ category behind Chispa, Skout, and Hit on Me! | Continue reading
Space junk in orbit is looking to become our next ecological mess | Continue reading
Apple may have discontinued click-wheel iPods, but a community of iPod modders resurrects them for their sound and nostalgia | Continue reading
How to shift power away from big tech and back to communities and individuals | Continue reading
Down the rabbit hole: my brief odyssey into the esoteric world of the tight-knit time zone data maintenance community. | Continue reading
Does a new technology pose serious dangers — or are we just overreacting? Philosopher Evan Selinger has some ideas on how to tell the two… | Continue reading
The “Marginalia” search up-ranks sites that are text-heavy — with truly offbeat results. Call it “serendipity engineering” | Continue reading
The undercurrents of the future. A publication from Medium about technology and people. | Continue reading
The company behind GPT-3 and Codex isn’t as open as it claims. | Continue reading
Generative AI systems could guide future pandemic decision-makers | Continue reading
It’s not the word you’d expect — and it appears in this very sentence | Continue reading
They force you to look at the world the way an AI does | Continue reading
Rather than take our jobs, AI will help us get better. | Continue reading
We’ve forgotten there’s a better way to build internet services | Continue reading
Thoughts about a new direction for desktop UI | Continue reading
The potential applications are both amazing and alarming | Continue reading
On a warm day in 2008, Silicon Valley’s titans-in-the-making found themselves packed around a bulky, blond-wood conference room table. Although they are big names today, the success of their… | Continue reading
Just say that we “fix” Facebook, making it possible for you to take your data and go to a rival service, one that respects your privacy, pays its taxes, and isn’t bent on enclosing all digital spaces… | Continue reading
ID.me has rejected some legitimate claimants in addition to fraudsters | Continue reading
A day of nothing flipped my brain into a low-energy mode | Continue reading
Ex-tech workers, gig employees, and locals priced out of the housing market are fighting for affordable housing in Silicon Valley | Continue reading
The undercurrents of the future. A publication from Medium about technology and people. | Continue reading
The question isn’t what’s going to get automated. It’s what’s going to get automated last. | Continue reading
The program turns neighbors into agents of the surveillance state | Continue reading
Welcome to No One’s Driving, a column by novelist and tech writer Tim Maughan about how to understand a world governed by systems and technologies that are spiraling out of control. “The mask is the… | Continue reading
To mark the web’s 32nd birthday, Sir Tim Berners-Lee calls for internet access for all, a fight against abuse and misinformation, and more | Continue reading
Why the search giant can afford to kill the cookie | Continue reading
The team purposely excluded Instagram images from the European Union, likely because of GDPR | Continue reading
U.S. Customs and Border Protection scanned more than 23 million people in public places with facial recognition technology in 2020 | Continue reading
The hot new social app has found success by replicating real-world social structures rather than exploding them | Continue reading
Exploring design patents from tech companies | Continue reading
The Digital Service Academy would compete with Stanford and MIT | Continue reading
A Q&A with the acclaimed science fiction author and inventor of better futures | Continue reading
Birdwatch and the Oversight Board are new approaches to the same idea: shifting responsibility away from the platforms themselves | Continue reading
While Facebook and Twitter get the scrutiny, Nextdoor is reshaping politics one neighborhood at a time | Continue reading
If only we’d have listened 30 years ago | Continue reading
Revature promises jobs — and charges students $36,500 to quit | Continue reading
Could Google and Facebook’s algorithms be next? | Continue reading
The definitive story of Wikipedia on its 20th anniversary | Continue reading
Smaller services are coming under scrutiny now that the big platforms have warmed to aggressive moderation | Continue reading
'Have you tried to moderate 15 million people?’ MeWe founder Mark Weinstein told OneZero | Continue reading
The Austin surge that wasn’t. Plus booming Seattle, miraculous Madison, and sluggish San Francisco. | Continue reading
Uber’s former chief business officer discusses the gig app’s future in an uncertain climate | Continue reading
Vast systems, from automated supply chains to high-frequency trading, now undergird our daily lives — and we’re losing control of all of… | Continue reading