BuzzFeed News
Clearview AI's Facial Recognition Tech Is Being Used By The Justice Department, ICE, And The FBI
18+ min · · A BuzzFeed News review of Clearview AI documents has revealed the company is working with more than 2,200 law enforcement agencies, companies, and individuals around the world. · Shared by 214, including Katie Benner, caroline sinders, Yann “不停” Heurtaux ⏚ @shalf@mastodon.social, Jennifer Stirrup #MBA Topics: #AI #Data #Strategy, Kashmir Hill, Marc R Gagné MAPP, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Katja Evertz, Psymposia, Fern, Virginia Hughes, Adrian Roselli (no blue check) 🗯, Mathew Ingram, Desmond Williams, Adrienne Fichter
changelog.com
Monoliths are the future
2 min · · Unpopular opinion! Monoliths are the future because the problem people are trying to solve with microservices doesn’t really line up with reality. Just to be honest - and I’ve done this before, gone… · Shared by 306, including Stan Chollet, Chris {he, they} , Jorge David, Desmond Williams, Joe Lencioni, DHH, Matthew Turland, Charlie O'Keefe @charlieok@hachyderm.io, Ferit (at 🏠) 🌙, Kelsey Hightower, Matthias Lampe, 𝚛𝚘𝚐𝚎𝚛
Fast Company
Google and Microsoft shouldn’t decide how technology is regulated
3 min · · A researcher who studies AI principles warns that giving too much credence to Big Tech is like “asking the fox for guidance on henhouse security procedures.” · Shared by 82, including Katja Evertz, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Desmond Williams, Artnome, Ines Bieler
Harvard Business Review
Time Management Is About More Than Life Hacks
6 min · · Your productivity hinges on these three skills. · Shared by 400, including Nir Eyal, David Garner, Katja Evertz, Charles Duhigg, Stever Robbins @stever@newsie.social, Stephanie A Kowalski, Desmond Williams, Carla Johnson - Keynote Speaker, Antonio Ramos, Christian Hartmann
Quartz
Frustration grows in China as face masks compromise facial recognition
2 min · · Facial recognition technology is essential to daily life in China, on a scale beyond than other nations. · Shared by 118, including Desmond Williams, Brian D. Earp, Ph.D., Jameson Lopp, Chris Gledhill, Azeem Azhar, Jeff Nolan 🇺🇸🚀, Mars Rebello, Mark Little, MIT Press, Samuel Hu
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 82, including Brooks Rainwater, Desmond Williams, Esther Schindler, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Rick Powell, Tauno, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer
Google AI
Towards a Conversational Agent that Can Chat About…Anything
5 min · · Posted by Daniel Adiwardana, Senior Research Engineer, and Thang Luong, Senior Research Scientist, Google Research, Brain Team Modern co... · Shared by 138, including Chris Messina, Mike Tamir, PhD, Bill Slawski ⚓ 🇺🇦, 瑞拿頭, Jose Luis Calvo, Katja Evertz, Carla Gentry 🎶, sircharlsxavier, Oleg Baskov, Johannes Lenz, Bill Johnston, Dr Catherine Breslin, Nico Müller 🇺🇦, Desmond Williams, #DigitalHealth Futurist 👨💻, Elena Neira
The Guardian
How to fight racism using science
8 min · · Misguided assumptions about race are going mainstream, but hard facts can help you combat entrenched attitudes · Shared by 157, including Faik Ersoy, Desmond Williams, Jochen Burkhard, Lee Keyes, Dr Adam Rutherford, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to
Vox
How to delete what Facebook knows about your life outside of Facebook
5 min · · The "Off-Facebook Activity" tool lets you see — and somewhat control — what other sites and apps tell Facebook about you · Shared by 196, including Katja Evertz, Desmond Williams, Faik Ersoy, Stefan Diepolder, Mark Kaigwa, Matthias Lampe, 𝚛𝚘𝚐𝚎𝚛, Ayala Sherbow, C̷͈̳̫͗͊̾had P̸̜͇̱̗̻̝̙͆͑͑͝͝ollitt, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯
Towards Data Science
Google just published 25 million free datasets
2 min · · Here’s what you need to know about the largest data repository in the world · Shared by 318, including Fabrizio Bianchi, Mark Kaigwa, Kirk Borne, KOstas, Dr. Ganapathi Pulipaka 🇺🇸, Niklaus Gerber, Katja Evertz, Graeme Anderson, Thomas Spreng, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, MIT CSAIL, Tom D'Amico, Jonathan Kogan, Desmond Williams
Aeon+Psyche
If you could choose, what would make for a good death?
10 min · · We can chose how we live – why not how we leave? A free society should allow dying to be more deliberate and imaginative · Shared by 118, including Simon C, Nigel Warburton 🇺🇦 #FreeUkraine, Rick Powell, Desmond Williams, 🧠 Larry G. Maguire, Liv 😷, Anita Leirfall
TechCrunch
Toyota is building a tiny utopian prototype city filled with people, robots and AI
· Toyota researches and tests robotics, material science, automated driving and alternative fuel technology in labs all around the world. Now the automaker is trying a new and far more ambitious project: build a prototype city on a 175-acre site at the foot of Mount Fugi in Japan, where people will live and work amongst all […] · Shared by 91, including Katja Evertz, Desmond Williams, Sunnie J. Groeneveld, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Thomas Billeter, Shawn Venasse, Rick Powell, ExApologist, Rick King, Tauno
The Verge
32 moments that made the decade
16+ min · · From Tinder swipes to self-driving cars, these were the moments that shaped the decade. · Shared by 320, including Tauno, Ines Bieler, Keith Keller, Tom Connor, luis antónio santos, Desmond Williams, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Josep M. Ganyet
BBC News (World)
Why some people are always running late
5 min · · It’s not always rudeness or scatter-brained behaviour – it can be something much deeper, writes Laura Clarke · Shared by 686, including Liv 😷, Neil Hart 💙, Tom Connor, Pam Moore, hiten.eth, Ceferino Díaz, Francis Wade at JumpLeap, Desmond Williams, Andrew Ermogenous, Pascal, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Jonathan Kogan
The Atlantic
The Miseducation of the American Boy
20+ min · · Why boys crack up at rape jokes, think having a girlfriend is “gay,” and still can’t cry—and why we need to give them new and better models of masculinity · Shared by 378, including Jane, Brian D. Earp, Ph.D., Lee Keyes, Reshma Saujani, Dorlee Michaeli, MBA, LCSW, Scott Galloway, Desmond Williams, Carly, Pedro Noguera, Mark Isero, Alexandra Wong, Rick Powell, Jonathan Kogan, David E. Kirkland
NPR
How Inuit Parents Teach Kids To Control Their Anger
10 min · · At the top of the world, the Inuit culture has developed a sophisticated way to sculpt kids' behavior without yelling or scolding. Could discipline actually be playful? · Shared by 320, including Jesús Torres 👩💻, Fern, Desmond Williams, Gregor B. Rosenauer, Paola Valli