The New York Times
The Darkness Where the Future Should Be
6 min · · What happens to a society that loses its capacity for awe and wonder at things to come? · Shared by 51, including @brianleroux@indieweb.social 💙, Gerd Leonhard, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, tylercowen, Katja Evertz, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to
EL PAÍS
Holanda veta un algoritmo acusado de estigmatizar a los más desfavorecidos
3 min · · El Gobierno usaba el programa SyRI para determinar que ciudadanos son supuestamente más proclives a defraudar al Estado · Shared by 9, including 𝚛𝚘𝚐𝚎𝚛, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to
Bloomberg CityLab
The Spine of San Francisco Is Now Car-Free
5 min · · The plan to ban private cars from Market Street—one of the city’s busiest and most dangerous downtown thoroughfares—enjoys a remarkable level of local support. · Shared by 80, including Brooks Rainwater, Desmond Williams, Esther Schindler, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Rick Powell, Tauno, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer
Quanta Magazine
Artificial Intelligence Will Do What We Ask. That’s a Problem.
14+ min · · By teaching machines to understand our true desires, one scientist hopes to avoid the potentially disastrous consequences of having them do what we command. · Shared by 380, including Nige Roberts-Willson, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, John Hagel, Stanford HAI, Martin Ford, Bob E. Hayes, Antonio Vieira Santos, LARRY ELKAN, Michael (मुकेश), Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Gideonro, ipfconline in vacation mode :) will be back Sept.4, Michael Fisher, Iain Brown, PhD, Andreas Staub, Carla Gentry 🎶, Anita Leirfall, Marylin Delgado (@marylindelgado@zirk.us), AXSChat, Tamara McCleary
Slate
Trust No One. Not Even a Blockchain.
4 min · · Ironically, this technology that promises transparency and verifiability is presented as completely inscrutable. · Shared by 112, including Howard Getson, Kevin Marks 🏠kevinmarks.com xoxo.zone/@KevinMarks, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Glen Gilmore #MWC23, Chris Gledhill, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer
WIRED
An AI Epidemiologist Sent the First Warnings of the Wuhan Virus
2 min · · The BlueDot algorithm scours news reports and airline ticketing data to predict the spread of diseases like those linked to the flu outbreak in China. · Shared by 377, including CyberCodeTwins, Mathew Ingram, Nick Cote, Katja Evertz, Berci Meskó, MD, PhD, Bob E. Hayes, Howard Getson, Matthias Lampe, Rick King, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Daniel Kraft, MD, Bob Gourley, Eric Topol, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Claudia Sommer, Tamara McCleary, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, John Nosta, Carl Robinson 🎙️
Data Visualization Society
2019 Was the Year Data Visualization Hit the Mainstream
9 min · · From our president to our clothes to our books, this year showed that Dataviz has become an integral part of modern culture · Shared by 18, including Nadieh Bremer, Elijah Meeks, Oscar MacDonald, Thomas Power, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to
Fast Company
The making of Mojo, AR contact lenses that give your eyes superpowers
12+ min · · Using a display the size of a grain of sand to project images onto the retina, this startup could help everyone from firefighters to people with poor vision. · Shared by 145, including Jonathan Hassell, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Oliver Raduner, MΛRC VIDΛL, Desmond Williams, Tamara McCleary, John Nosta, Dr. Marigo Raftopoulos, John Hagel, Jeremiah Owyang, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Brian Ahier, Katja Evertz, Resh Sidhu, Rick King, Tauno, Tibor Martini 🇺🇦 @tibor@mastodon.social, Marc R Gagné MAPP, John Koetsier, C̷͈̳̫͗͊̾had P̸̜͇̱̗̻̝̙͆͑͑͝͝ollitt
secretldn.com
London’s New Artificial Trees Guzzle As Much Pollution As 275 Regular Trees
1 min · · Leytonstone has some excellent new arrivals, a pair of City Trees that eat pollution, produce oxygen, and clean up the capital's filthy air. · Shared by 249, including 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Katja Evertz, MΛRC VIDΛL, Stephan Woodtli, Nils Hitze, Oliver Ewinger, Thomas Pleil, Shawn Venasse, justin caouette, Liv 😷, kp, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Brian D. Earp, Ph.D., Kat, Philipp Laurim, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Josep M. Ganyet, Jane, Gregg Caruso, Leo Blazquez
nature
Time for the Human Screenome Project
10 min · · To understand how people use digital media, researchers need to move beyond screen time and capture everything we do and see on our screens. · Shared by 15, including Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to
MIT Technology Review
Why the quantum internet should be built in space
4 min · · The best way to distribute quantum entanglement around the globe is via a massive constellation of orbiting satellites, physicists say. · Shared by 79, including 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Katja Evertz, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, R.NFT R “Ray” Wang 王瑞光 #1A #AI, Jennifer Ouellette, Vikram Dutt, Antonio Vieira Santos, Bill Johnston, John Nosta
The New York Times
How the Police Use Facial Recognition, and Where It Falls Short
9 min · · Records from Florida, where law enforcement has long used the controversial technology, offer an inside look at its risks and rewards. · Shared by 43, including Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Mike Tamir, PhD
TechCrunch
ByteDance & TikTok have secretly built a Deepfakes maker
7 min · · TikTok parent company ByteDance has teamed up with one of the most controversial apps to let you insert your face into videos starring someone else. TechCrunch has learned that ByteDance has developed… · Shared by 86, including Josep M. Ganyet, luis antónio santos, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Johannes Lenz, Chris Messina, John Koetsier, Sam Proud, Katja Evertz, Stephanie A Kowalski
The New Yorker
The Equality Conundrum
19+ min · · We all agree that inequality is bad. But what kind of equality is good? · Shared by 345, including Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Juliana de Albuquerque | @ajuliana@mas.to, Pat Kua, Andrei Luca, Jochen Burkhard, Nilofer Merchant, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Robert Lepenies, Rick Powell, @ShannaPeeples@mastodon.nl
EL PAÍS
Ricos y pobres, cada vez más separados
7 min · · Los más adinerados tienden a trasladarse a urbanizaciones separadas del trasiego de la gran ciudad mientras los menos afortunados se enfrentan a condiciones posapocalípticas de contaminación y… · Shared by 4, including Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to
WIRED
AI Is Biased. Here's How Scientists Are Trying to Fix It
2 min · · Researchers are revising the ImageNet data set. But algorithmic anti-bias training is harder than it seems. · Shared by 119, including Josep M. Ganyet, Faik Ersoy, Yves Mulkers, Ines Bieler, Martin Ford, Marc Gasser, Eric Topol, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Marc R Gagné MAPP, Ronald van Loon, Rick King, Florian Graillot, Desmond Williams, LARRY ELKAN, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Backchannel