TechCrunch
‘No code’ will define the next generation of software
2 min read · 2020-07-07 · This fundamental shift provides an opening for a new cohort of no code companies to grow into the next generation of software powerhouses.
EL PAÍS
Los delirios mortales del rey Donald
2020-07-11 · En Estados Unidos somos todos pasajeros a merced de un capitán loco y decidido a hundir su barco
nature
How Facebook, Twitter and other data troves are revolutionizing social science
9 min read · 2020-06-17 · A new breed of researcher is turning to computation to understand society — and then change it.
The New York Times
Remember the MOOCs? After Near-Death, They’re Booming
9 min read · 2020-05-26 · The pioneering online learning networks offer hard-earned lessons for what works and what doesn’t with online education.
Harvard Business Review
Why Now Is the Time for “Open Innovation”
6 min read · 2020-06-05 · Covid-19 has shown how companies can work together to solve problems.
The New York Times
Don’t Lose the Thread. The Economy Is Experiencing an Epic Collapse of Demand.
~11 min read · 2020-06-06 · A rip in the fabric of the economy won’t be healed easily, and denial of the severity of the crisis won’t solve it.
Digital Trends
The Future of Smart Cities May Mean the Death of Privacy
6 min read · 2020-04-22 · As smart cities evolve, cameras proliferate, and all of our data is continually collected, the question of how to maintain personal privacy becomes more urgent.
MIT Technology Review
Google is using AI to design chips that will accelerate AI
1 min read · 2020-03-27 · A new reinforcement-learning algorithm has learned to optimize the placement of components on a computer chip to make it more efficient and less power-hungry.3D Tetris: Chip placement, also known as…
POLITICO
Coronavirus Will Change the World Permanently. Here’s How.
20+ min read · 2020-03-20 · The September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and the 2008 financial crisis changed how Americans perceive their country and the world. The coronavirus pandemic has quarantined people in their homes, and altered their relationships and how they view the institutions that govern them. As with earlier crises, the coronavirus crisis may change people and US society as a whole in fundamental and lasting ways. No one can predict how this will play out. Politico Magazine asked experts and thinkers for their visions of the future.
VICE
New Earth Surveillance Tech Is About to Change Everything, Including Us
10 min read · 2020-03-16 · New high-resolution satellites, AIs, and data tools are going to let us study Earth, and ourselves, in greater detail than ever before. That's going to come with "unthinkable" problems.
The New York Times
How Technology is Changing the Future of Higher Education
7 min read · 2020-02-20 · Labs test artificial intelligence, virtual reality and other innovations that could improve learning and lower costs for Generation Z and beyond.
WIRED
Wikipedia Is the Last Best Place on the Internet
4 min read · 2020-02-17 · In this article for Wired, cultural correspondent Richard Clarke tracks the origins, the day-to-day functioning and the likely future of Wikipedia. He discusses how its founders first regarded it as an adjunct to another site; how “Wikignomes” keep the site up and running; how Alexa and Siri depend on Wikipedia for answers and will depend on it even more in the future; and why everyone who uses Wikipedia still remains slightly reluctant to cite it as a source. Clarke’s lively writing and lucid insights will captivate anyone who uses Wikipedia – that is, pretty much everyone.
MIT Technology Review
What AI still can’t do
9 min read · 2020-02-19 · Artificial intelligence won’t be very smart if computers don’t grasp cause and effect. That’s something even humans have trouble with.
EL PAÍS
Hay gobiernos que quieren desconectar a sus ciudadanos de Internet. Y alguno ya tiene su botón rojo
10 min read · 2020-02-23 · La Red está dejando de ser global. China, Rusia e Irán, entre otros, vallan sus infraestructuras digitales para vigilar y censurar a sus ciudadanos. Bienvenidos a la ‘balcanización’ de Internet
The Atlantic
A World Without Privacy Will Revive the Masquerade
10 min read · 2020-02-08 · As the growing scale of facial recognition shows, more data can always be extracted.
Guardian Tech
The rise of facial recognition technology
2 min read · 2020-02-04 · With facial recognition technology getting more sophisticated each year, technology editor Alex Hern explores the issue of privacy. Also today: Jamie Grierson on Sunday’s terrorism attack in south…
