When Remote Therapy Isn’t as Private as It Seems

As our lives become increasingly remote, it’s worth considering the cost of convenience — to visit family over Zoom, proctor a class… | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 3 years ago

Social Movements Are Pushing Google Sheets to the Breaking Point

A sea of viral Google Sheets and Docs that break attests to the need for scalable collaboration tools | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 3 years ago

Facebook Acquired Instagram

The social giant’s controversial $1 billion acquisition shows how a tech monopoly wields power | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 3 years ago

Wireless Charging Is a Disaster Waiting to Happen

We crunched the numbers on just how inefficient wireless charging is — and the results are pretty shocking | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 3 years ago

What is Jio, and why are tech’s biggest players suddenly obsessed with it?

Google, Facebook, and Microsoft all want a slice of this tech pie | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 3 years ago

How the Custom Ringtone Industry Paved the Way for the App Store

Why I miss Crazy Frog | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 3 years ago

Companies Are Using Employee Survey Data to Predict–and Squash–Union Organizing

Employee survey platforms allow employers to sort groups of employees by the departments, locations, and demographics most likely to… | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 3 years ago

The Gig Economy Is Failing. Say Hello to the Hustle Economy

Unemployed teachers, cooks, dancers are turning to Patreon, Twitch, and OnlyFans | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 3 years ago

Don’t Get Distracted by the Spectacle of Tech’s Big Antitrust Hearing

A top Amazon critic explains the big picture behind the media circus | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 3 years ago

Protest Movements Can Hijack Surveillance Tech for the Public Good

Local SSD block-level storage comes to EC2 instances powered by home-brew Graviton2 CPUs | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 3 years ago

Pinterest Moderators' Fight to Keep Horrifying Content Off the Platform

The power to end it is in your hands. | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 3 years ago

A Man Whose Science Fiction Keeps Turning into Our Shitty Cyberpunk Reality

Empowering People. Uniting Communities. Qbix works with communities to release their own local social network, and help gradually onboard all the administrators, members, and guests. This lets people connect over common interests, date, make reservations at local establishments, … | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 3 years ago

Deepwater Horizon Still Plagues the Health of Children a Decade Later

Research says children suffered physical and mental health as a result of the largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 3 years ago

The Enduring Anti-Black Racism of Google Search

How neoliberalism, Google, and the U.S. porn industry coded searching for ‘black girls’ with racism | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 3 years ago

Complex Systems Theory Explains Why Covid Crushed the World

The more complicated and efficient a system gets, the more likely it is to collapse altogether | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 3 years ago

What Happens When You Delete the Comments?

We are all online moderators now | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 3 years ago

Party in a Shared Google Doc

What if no one comes? | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 3 years ago

Doordash and Thousands of Other Companies Passively Send Your Data to Facebook

But you can do something about it | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 3 years ago

You might want to read op-eds supporting the tech giants with skepticism

Why you should probably read opinion pieces supporting the tech giants with skepticism | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 3 years ago

Woman Inspired Hit Video Game by Mapping the World’s Longest Cave

Patricia Crowther’s ex-husband coded her cave maps into one of the first hit adventure games in the 1970s, and she had no idea | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 3 years ago

From like buttons to message bubbles: The UX designs you can't use (2019)

Designing a new user interface in 2019 is harder than you think | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 3 years ago

Why laptop webcams are still junk

Thinner isn’t always better for computers | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 3 years ago

Facebook Cannot Separate Itself from the Hate It Spreads

The social network doesn’t just ‘hold a mirror up to society’— it does something much more powerful and concerning | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 3 years ago

My bizarre stint as an Amazon reviewer for hire

In exchange for positive Amazon reviews, the mysterious Facebook accounts who recruited me promised me free stuff. They delivered. | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 3 years ago

What a Better Social Network Would Look Like

An offhand tweet sparked an outpouring of ideas to fix what’s broken about Facebook and Twitter | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 3 years ago

Months Before Reddit Purge, The_Donald Users Created a New Home

TheDonald.win mimics Reddit’s look and feel, minus the threat of so-called ‘censorship’ | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 3 years ago

Tiny Weed-Killing Robots Could Make Pesticides Obsolete

This swarm of robots may herald a chemical-free food revolution | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 3 years ago

The Amazon Effect Is Making Customer Service Reps’ Lives Hell

The pandemic has exposed a major rift in the retail industry | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 3 years ago

The Tech Elite Are Selling Job Referrals to Facebook, Google, and Amazon

Blind’s sister site, Rooftop Slushie, has built a marketplace for job referrals | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 3 years ago

Apple's Plan to Ditch Intel Processors

The company solved the chicken-or-egg problem that haunts its rivals | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 3 years ago

The Public Is Being Misled by Pandemic Technology That Won’t Keep Them Safe

Technology like thermal imaging is little more than security theater | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 3 years ago

$35 Keyboard for Children Transformed Me into a Novelist

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@onezero.medium.com | 3 years ago

Apple May Finally Have to Answer for Its Unfair App Store Policies

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@onezero.medium.com | 3 years ago

Facebook’s Acquisition of Giphy Could Have an Unexpected Chilling Effect

A lawsuit taking direct aim at Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act says the site applies "restricted mode" to videos tagged "Black Lives Matter," among other names, words, and phrases. | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 3 years ago

Now Is the Time to Dismantle Our Cities’ Invasive Surveillance Infrastructure

Japanese researchers succeed in fertilising pears using pollen carried on a soap bubble. | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 3 years ago

Scientists Edited Human Embryos in the Lab, and It Was a Disaster

Email at its best, new from Basecamp, coming soon. | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 3 years ago

A Research Paper Led Amazon, Microsoft, and IBM to Curb Facial Rec Programs

Streamlit helps data scientists turn their data into predictive models through AI and machine learning. | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 3 years ago

We Aren’t Using UV to Disinfect Everything–Yet

Ilya Vinitsky follows a spurious Dostoyevsky quote into the American house of the dead. | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 3 years ago

30k Unsuspecting Rose Bowl Attendees Scooped Up in a Facial Recognition Test

How they accidentally made a promise they couldn’t keep | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 3 years ago

Simple Facial Recognition Search Engine Can Track You Down Across Internet

'This is going to be a problem; we are not on top of this' | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 3 years ago

A Deadly Mosquito-Borne Illness Is Brewing in the Northeast

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@onezero.medium.com | 3 years ago

Glasses Equipped with Facial Recognition Are Coming

This Data Science Roadmap guides you through every step in your journey to become a Data Science Practitioner in 8 stages. | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 3 years ago

Researchers Find Security Flaws in Online Voting System Used in Florida and More

Check out some of the tools we use at PayPal to share UI components across our products. | Continue reading


@onezero.medium.com | 3 years ago

Predator Drone Surveillance in Minneapolis Is Just the Tip of the Iceberg

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@onezero.medium.com | 3 years ago

How Apple decides which products are ‘vintage’ and ‘obsolete’

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@onezero.medium.com | 3 years ago

How Facebook Can Fix Itself – Open Letter from Former FB Executive

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@onezero.medium.com | 3 years ago

The Police Are Watching on Nextdoor

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@onezero.medium.com | 3 years ago

Forget ‘Fortnite’ – Twitch Streamers Are Broadcasting Themselves Writing Code

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@onezero.medium.com | 3 years ago