The New York Times
House Lawmakers Condemn Big Tech’s ‘Monopoly Power’
6 min read · 2020-10-06 · In a report led by Democrats, lawmakers said Apple, Amazon, Google and Facebook needed to be checked and recommended reforming antitrust laws. · Shared by 63, including John Tasioulas, Katie Benner, Javi Cantón, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Lily Ray 😏, Shoshana Zuboff, Scott Galloway, 🟣 Antonio Vieira Santos #FutureOfWork #InnoTrans2
The New York Times
Who’s a Bot? Who’s Not?
~13 min read · From 2020 · It sometimes seems that automated bots are taking over social media and driving human discourse. But some (real) researchers aren’t so sure. · Shared by 107, including Mathew Ingram, Javi Cantón, Taylor Lorenz, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Joanna J Bryson, Klaus Eck, Paolo Pedercini, Gary Thomas 🌐, MIT Press, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Stephanie A Kowalski, Brendan Nyhan, Kelsey D. Atherton, Kara Swisher, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen
nature
How Facebook, Twitter and other data troves are revolutionizing social science
9 min read · From 2020 · A new breed of researcher is turning to computation to understand society — and then change it. · Shared by 199, including Mark Kaigwa, Faik Ersoy, mdy, luis antónio santos, Javi Cantón, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, M.J. Crockett
MIT Technology Review
Of course technology perpetuates racism. It was designed that way.
4 min read · From 2020 · Black Americans have seen technology used to target them again and again. Stopping it means looking at the problem differently. · Shared by 239, including Anthony Hamelle, Brett King #Technosocialism #OptimalHumanity, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, 𝚛𝚘𝚐𝚎𝚛, LARRY ELKAN, Eric Bailey, Tris Hussey, Rick Powell, Javi Cantón, Katja Evertz, Jim Marous 💯, Bill Johnston, Mathew Ingram, 🟣 Antonio Vieira Santos #FutureOfWork #InnoTrans2, Steve Faulkner, luis antónio santos, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Josep M. Ganyet
The New York Times
We Live in Zoom Now
9 min read · From 2020 · Zoom is where we work, go to school and party these days. · Shared by 110, including Fern, Mari Smith, Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Johannes Lenz, Matt Navarra, luis antónio santos, Michael (मुकेश) 🇺🇦💪🏻, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Gerd Leonhard, Stephanie A Kowalski, Mark Kaigwa, Klaus Eck, Javi Cantón, Scott McLeod, Ricky Yean, Michael Schär, Claudia Sommer, Ramon Ray, karsten samland, Kara Swisher
The New York Times
The Coronavirus Crisis Is Showing Us How to Live Online
7 min read · From 2020 · We’ve always hoped that our digital tools would create connections, not conflict. We have a chance to make it happen. · Shared by 75, including Javi Cantón, Alfie Kohn, Michael (मुकेश) 🇺🇦💪🏻, Rick King, luis antónio santos, Kate Nasser, Mark Little, Kara Swisher, Fern, Daniel, Nir Eyal
maldita.es
Alternativas digitales para tu día a día - Maldita — Periodismo para que no te la cuelen
~12 min read · From 2020 · ¿Por qué necesitamos alternativas a muchas de las apps y de los servicios que utilizamos todos los días? En Maldita Tecnolgía te lo contamos en este repositorio de servicios digitales. · Shared by 5, including Javi Cantón
Spotify Engineering
Spotify Unwrapped: How we brought you a decade of data
5 min read · From 2020 · The Spotify Wrapped Campaign is one of Spotify’s largest marketing and social campaigns of the year. It enables our users to see a detailed breakdown of their listening habits over the past year.… · Shared by 212, including Javi Cantón, Oscar MacDonald, Tom Connor, Tauno, Stephanie A Kowalski, Dr. Ganapathi Pulipaka 🇺🇸, sircharlsxavier, Ferit (at 🏠) 🌙, Mike Tamir, PhD
MIT Technology Review
What AI still can’t do
9 min read · From 2020 · Artificial intelligence won’t be very smart if computers don’t grasp cause and effect. That’s something even humans have trouble with. · Shared by 320, including Nige Willson, Merkstatt, Katja Evertz, Javi Cantón, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Stephanie A Kowalski, Jonathan Kogan, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, Evan Selinger, Thomas Power, Martin Ford, Rick King, Bob E. Hayes, Gerd Leonhard, John Nosta, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Damir Kusar, sircharlsxavier, Greg Satell, Oliver Ewinger
Guardian Tech
The rise of facial recognition technology
2 min read · From 2020 · 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 144, including adrianoesch, Merkstatt, Javi Cantón, Mark Kaigwa, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, Jochen Burkhard
Guardian Tech
Infinite scroll: life under Instagram
~17 min read · From 2020 · The long read: After a few years, I came to understand Instagram dwellers as broken people – my people · Shared by 260, including Gabriele, Javi Cantón, Merkstatt, Mars Rebello, Sam Proud, Klaus Eck, Scott Monty, Mark Kaigwa, luis antónio santos, Stephanie A Kowalski
Towards Data Science
Python Tutorial For Researchers Who use R
7 min read · From 2020 · Installation, Loading Data, Visualization, Linear Regression, Rpy2 · Shared by 3, including Javi Cantón
WIRED
An AI Epidemiologist Sent the First Warnings of the Wuhan Virus
2 min read · From 2020 · 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 376, including Claudia Sommer, Mathew Ingram, Bob E. Hayes, Matthias Lampe, John Nosta, Bob Gourley, Daniel Kraft, MD, Javi Cantón, Rick King, Tamara McCleary, Katja Evertz, CyberCodeTwins.eth 👾// NINER FURY TANGO, Eric Topol, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, Berci Meskó, MD, PhD, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Merkstatt, Tom Connor, Howard Getson, Carl Robinson 🎙️
Data Visualization Society
2019 Was the Year Data Visualization Hit the Mainstream
9 min read · From 2019 · 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
EL PAÍS
Los algoritmos buenos y tontos que mueven el mundo
3 min read · From 2020 · La mayoría de las rutinas informáticas son más simples y útiles que esas piezas de ‘software’ opacas que tanto nos inquietan · Shared by 4, including Politikon, Javi Cantón
