Harvard Business Review
Why Now Is the Time for “Open Innovation”
6 min · · Covid-19 has shown how companies can work together to solve problems. · Shared by 196, including Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Arie Goldshlager, Filippo Antonio Capizzi, CNCF, Stu Collett, Freek Vermeulen, Thomas Knüwer, David Terrar, Stephan Woodtli, Steed Monteiro, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Katja Evertz, Marc R Gagné MAPP, Birgit Schefer, Prof. Sally Eaves
The New York Times
The Making of a YouTube Radical
20+ min · · Caleb Cain was a college dropout looking for direction. He turned to YouTube, where he was pulled into a world filled with conspiracy theories, misogyny and racism. · Shared by 185, including Mark Little, C. Dutilh Novaes akademienl.social/@cdutilhnovaes, Florian Hanke 🍎, Kevin Roose, Anthony Hamelle, Kevin Kelly, TaylorLorenz.Substack.com, The Real Prof. Katharine Hayhoe, Tibor Martini 🇺🇦 @tibor@mastodon.social, W. Blake Gray, Mark Kaigwa, Andrew Hutchinson, Nando 💪🇦🇺🇦🇷, Ernie Smith is also @ernie@writing.exchange, @ShannaPeeples@mastodon.nl, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, 💥 Katie Martell, Wesley Fryer, Ph.D. 🌎🎙🚀 wesfryer.com/after, Arin Basu, Mike Butcher
Our World in Data
The importance of social networks for innovation and productivity
5 min · · Social networks facilitate the diffusion of ideas across individuals and firms, and because of this, they play an important role in productivity growth. In this post we explain how this works. · Shared by 182, including Vincenzo Tremonte, John Hagel, Nico Müller 🇺🇦, Oscar MacDonald, Kat, Brandon Uttley, Rick Powell, Ines Bieler, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Josep M. Ganyet, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Ward Plunet, Thomas Power, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Johannes Lenz, Bill Johnston
The New York Times
What Happens After Amazon’s Domination Is Complete? Its Bookstore Offers Clues
13+ min · · Popular novels, technical tomes and self-published books are pirated and sold on Amazon. That may actually be helping the company extend its grip on the book business. · Shared by 176, including Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Michael Grupe, Liliane Ferrari ™, Craig Brown, PhD, Amber Mac, Jenny Lawson, Charles Baldwin, Tendayi Viki, Tauno, L. Taylor Banks, Philippe Surber, Yvette Dubel, W. Blake Gray, Howard Getson, Jane
Gizmodo
The Planet Needs a New Internet
12+ min · · When climate change comes for our coffee and our wine, we’ll moan about it on Twitter, read about it on our favorite websites, and watch diverting videos on YouTube to fill the icy hole in our hearts.… · Shared by 173, including Katja Evertz, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Chris Heilmann codepo8@toot.cafe, Gerrit Eicker, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Sascha Brossmann (he/him) 🇪🇺🇺🇦, Bruce Lawson, ExApologist, Jane, Sébastien Bonset, Fawzi A. Baba-Ali, Matthias Lampe, Thomas Power, Tauno, Lluís Codina, Marius Bleuer, Aimee Meifeu ✍️⚖️, Lukas Stickelberger, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer
TechCrunch
The future of diversity and inclusion in tech
20+ min · · Silicon Valley is entering a new phase in its quest for diversity and inclusion in the technology industry. Some advocates call this part “the end of the beginning,” Code2040 CEO Karla Monterroso… · Shared by 172, including Women Who Code, Chris Messina, Jeff Bussgang, anildash.com, Gabriele, Mike Butcher, Joelle Emerson, Charles Baldwin, Sergio Caredda, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Lluís Codina, Massimiliano Aroffo
OpenAI
MuseNet
5 min · · We’ve created Musenet, a deep neural network that can generate 4-minute musical compositions with 10 different instruments and can combine styles from country to Mozart to the Beatles. · Shared by 170, including Ilya Sutskever, Lukas Biewald, Thomas Telandro, jz, Michelle Boisson, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, 📁𝐦𝐫𝐯𝐧, Nico Müller 🇺🇦, luis antónio santos, Katja Evertz, Future of Life Institute, Grégoire Japiot 🌻, ipfconline in vacation mode :) will be back Sept.4, Christine McLeavey, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, Josep M. Ganyet, Massimo Banzi, Nils Hitze, Oleg Baskov, Ryan Hoover
The Washington Post
It’s the middle of the night. Do you know who your iPhone is talking to?
6 min · · Shared by 164, including Marsha Collier, Ralph Hutter, 𝚛𝚘𝚐𝚎𝚛, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Yann “不停” Heurtaux ⏚ @shalf@mastodon.social, Scott McLeod, Mark Kaigwa, Jane, Daniel Jörg, Guy Kawasaki, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, Noely ⚡️🏐, @ShannaPeeples@mastodon.nl, Mathew Ingram, OM, Bernhard Huessy, Eric L. Barnes 🏝️, mastodon.social/@renestalder, Luca Like, Yvette Dubel
VICE
New Earth Surveillance Tech Is About to Change Everything, Including Us
10 min · · 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. · Shared by 161, including Katja Evertz, Faik Ersoy, Nige Roberts-Willson, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to
VICE
The Collapse of Civilization May Have Already Begun
20+ min · · Scientists disagree on the timeline of collapse and whether it's imminent. But can we afford to be wrong? And what comes after? · Shared by 157, including Kim Schläpfer, Jochen Burkhard, François-Oli Devaux, Klaus Eck, Larry Balaclava, Prof Michael E. Mann, Tobias Kopka, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Jennifer Hurst, Matthias Lampe, Faik Ersoy, Patrick Scheuerer, Kat
MIT Technology Review
Google is using AI to design chips that will accelerate AI
1 min · · 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… · Shared by 155, including Stacey Higginbotham, Brooks Rainwater, Bob E. Hayes, Tamara McCleary, Thomas Power, Katja Evertz, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Dr. Ganapathi Pulipaka 🇺🇸, Howard Getson, Juan Cole, Jansnet, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to
youtube.com
This AI Clones Your Voice After Listening for 5 Seconds 🤐
· ❤️ Check out Weights & Biases here and sign up for a free demo: https://www.wandb.com/papers The shown blog post is available here: https://www.wandb.com/art... · Shared by 155, including Pablo Fernandez Cid, Thomas Billeter, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Will Preston, Matthias Lampe, rudolph regter, Rick King, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, 瑞拿頭, Sibylle Peuker, Dr. Alec Couros, Tom Connor
The Guardian
The rise of facial recognition technology
2 min · · 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… · Shared by 154, including adrianoesch, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Mark Kaigwa, Jochen Burkhard, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN
The New York Times
Don’t Lose the Thread. The Economy Is Experiencing an Epic Collapse of Demand.
11+ min · · 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. · Shared by 153, including Katja Evertz, Scott Santens, dewang mishra, Gideonro, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Scott Galloway, Dom Zuend, Danielle Fong 🙋🏻♀️, Howard Getson, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Nando 💪🇦🇺🇦🇷
The Atlantic
The AI-Art Gold Rush Is Here
· An artificial-intelligence “artist” got a solo show at a Chelsea gallery. Will it reinvent art, or destroy it? · Shared by 153, including @AlgoCompSynth@ravenation.club by znmeb, Bryan Onel, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr, Julia Kaganskiy 🇺🇦, Dominik Grolimund, Liliane Ferrari ™, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Ward Plunet, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, Niklaus Gerber
The Guardian
A brutal year: how the 'techlash' caught up with Facebook, Google and Amazon
6 min · · Privacy scandals and antitrust issues dogged Facebook and Google and Amazon saw a rise in employee organizing · Shared by 152, including Dean Anthony Gratton, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, luis antónio santos, Faik Ersoy, Katja Evertz, Mark Kaigwa, Rick Powell, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer