The Modern World Has Finally Become Too Complex for Any of Us to Understand

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@onezero.medium.com | 3 years ago

The Delicate Art of Making Robots That Don’t Creep People Out

Agility Robotics created a robot that could walk up stairs and carry boxes. But the main complaint from customers? It didn’t have a face. | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 3 years ago

The Fear of Living with a Hackable Heart

A device connected to my heart could save my life. It could also be hacked. | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 3 years ago

Turning Human Corpses to Soil

Reusable eight-by-four-foot steel cylinders, packed with wood chips, straw, and alfalfa, present an eco-friendly alternative to traditional… | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 3 years ago

Christian evangelists spread the gospel on Twitch

Christian evangelists use streaming platforms to spread the gospel while playing Fortnite | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 3 years ago

Facebook’s Project Aria Is Google Maps – For Your Entire Life

A new augmented reality headset will create a map of everything you see | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 3 years ago

The Philosophy That Explains Why So Many SV CEOs Are Always Playing Victim

A Stanford professor explains how tech titans channel obscure philosophies to convince us — and themselves — they’re being wronged | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 3 years ago

Neighborhood Watch Has a New Tool: Privately Owned License-Plate Readers

Residents fear the gadgets will enable snooping — and much worse | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 3 years ago

Google Photos Just Made the Case for Breaking Up Big Tech

A new policy perfectly illustrates a core issue across the industry | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 3 years ago

The Ad-Based Internet Is About to Collapse. What Comes Next?

The web as we know it relies on advertising, but that model is headed for a crash. Fortunately, we can build something better from the… | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 3 years ago

Facebook Shuts Down ‘Stop the Steal’ Group

The pro-Trump group attracted 300,000 members in just two days | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 3 years ago

Bird Is Quietly Luring Contract Workers into Debt Through a New Scooter Scheme

One Bird Charger estimates that he took on $40,000 in scooter debt | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 3 years ago

Ex-Googler Meredith Whittaker on Tech's Political Power, Flaws of Social Dilemma

In a new interview, the tech labor activist and A.I. researcher discusses major issues in Silicon Valley today | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 3 years ago

To Understand Facebook Today, Read Its Earliest Critics

These early and overlooked books revealed Facebook was plagued from the start — and are crucial to understanding it now | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 3 years ago

Clear Conquered U.S. Airports. Now It Wants to Own Your Entire Digital Identity

‘You are your driver’s license, your credit card, your health care card, your building access card’ | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 3 years ago

Build Your Own Weather App

For $180, I built my own personal weather station on my porch | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 3 years ago

Acellus, an online learning platform for kids, was created by a religious 'cult'

Acellus, a distance learning product used by thousands of students across the U.S., emerged from the Church of Jesus Christ in Zion | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 3 years ago

‘Social Dilemma’ Star Tristan Harris Responds to Criticisms of the Film

In a new interview, the former Google design ethicist weighs in on the backlash to the popular Netflix doc | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 3 years ago

Google and Palantir Are Two Sides of the Same Coin

Both companies leverage vast amounts of data for unprecedented surveillance | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 3 years ago

A VC Explains Why VCs Are So Pissed Off

A conversation with Bloomberg Beta venture capitalist Roy Bahat | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 3 years ago

Casey Newton on Leaving ‘The Verge’ for Substack; the Future of Tech Journalism

Sarah Jeong talks to Newton about the details of his deal, subscription journalism, and what makes email such a good media format | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 3 years ago

Casey Newton on Leaving 'The Verge' for Substack and the Future of Tech Journalism

Sarah Jeong talks to Newton about the details of his deal, subscription journalism, and what makes email such a good media format | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 3 years ago

Why Spotify Has So Many Bizarre, Generic Artists Like ‘White Noise Baby Sleep’

The platform is filled with search-optimized spammers, and there’s no end in sight | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 3 years ago

Risk assessment is an entire field of study that the tech industry is ignoring

Viral hate, election interference, and hacked accounts: inside the tech industry’s decades-long failure to reckon with risk | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 3 years ago

FTC and DOJ's entire antitrust division budget is below what FB makes in 3 days

U.S. regulators don’t have enough money to properly check the tech giants, according to firsthand accounts | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 3 years ago

We Need to Pump the Brakes on Driverless Cars

We’re nowhere near proving that automated driving technology is safer than human drivers | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 3 years ago

The Apple Watch Is the New Starter Phone

Apple’s new features bring a new generation of kids into its ecosystem | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 3 years ago

USB-C Was Supposed to Simplify Our Lives. Instead, It’s a Total Mess

We could not find what you were looking for on Medium. | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 3 years ago

Apple at a Crossroads: An Interview with M.G. Siegler

Apple’s identity, the Epic Games beef, and brewing competition with Facebook | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 3 years ago

Microsoft’s Surface Duo Is a Perfect Blend of Phone and Tablet

The $1,400 Android-powered device makes elegant use of a second screen | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 3 years ago

Portland Passes Groundbreaking Ban on Facial Recognition

Historic legislation makes Portland a leader in a nationwide trend to regulate facial recognition technology. | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 3 years ago

Box CEO Aaron Levie on Trump, the Tech Giants, and the Stock Market

‘This economy is definitely not sustainable’ | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 3 years ago

Leaked Salary Spreadsheet Reveals Microsoft Employee Earnings for a Second Year

Sharing compensation data has become an annual tradition at Microsoft during this time of year | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 3 years ago

The Privileged Have Entered Their Escape Pods

Technology gave us the dream of a cocooned future. Now we’re living it. | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 3 years ago

Today’s Webcams Are Boring, So I Brought Back a Classic

That time I put a Raspberry Pi inside an Apple iSight and nobody stopped me | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 3 years ago

The First Gene-Edited Squid in History Is a Biological Breakthrough

The modified squid could be useful for brain research | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 3 years ago

Bringing Apple’s old iSight webcam back to life with Raspberry Pi

That time I put a Raspberry Pi inside an Apple iSight and nobody stopped me | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 3 years ago

It’s Time to End Whiteboard Interviews for Software Engineers

The most important reform to promote diversity and inclusion in your engineering organization | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 3 years ago

'How to destroy surveillance capitalism,' a book-length rebuttal to S. Zuboff

Surveillance capitalism is just capitalism — with surveillance. Here’s how to beat it. | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 3 years ago

Is Android Getting Safer Than iOS?

What the market for zero-day exploits tells us about our phones | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 3 years ago

The Great Slacklash Is Coming

Slack and its counterparts ‘create problems, high school-type problems,’ one CEO said | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 3 years ago

Alex Kantrowitz interviews The Verge’s Casey Newton

The Verge’s Silicon Valley editor discusses tech media, recent issues with Facebook, and more | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 3 years ago

Some A.I. experts are concerned about a lack of transparency in OpenAI's GPT-3

Some A.I. experts warn against a lack of transparency in the buzzy new program | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 3 years ago

The Troubling Legacy of a Biased Dataset

The data set’s ripple effects are immeasurable | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 3 years ago

Uber and Lyft’s Business Model May Be Dead. Good

The biggest startups in modern history were built on old-fashioned worker exploitation. Time for an upgrade. | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 3 years ago

Fortnite Baited Apple into a Losing Battle

The scheme was calculated to get users’ hopes up—and to dare Apple and Google to dash them. It worked. | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 3 years ago

Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom – Ted Chiang

Put simply, Ted Chiang is one of our generation’s greatest speculative fiction writers. This may seem like hyperbole, but we believe it to… | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 3 years ago

An Unelected Monarch Is Shaping Our Public Life. His Name Is Mark Zuckerberg

The most important election this year has only one voter | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 3 years ago