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The Fifth Estate
2 min read · From 2019 · Mark Zuckerberg, in his speech last week at Georgetown University, called social media “the Fifth Estate.” The first three “estates” of society, classically, are the clergy, the nobility, and everyone…
Gizmodo
Here's the Internet's 'Birth Certificate' From 50 Years Ago Today
4 min read · From 2019 · Fifty years ago today, on October 29, 1969, the internet was born. It was a humble beginning—a single login from a computer terminal at UCLA in Los Angeles to the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) in…
WIRED
The Danger of Thinking We’re All ‘Addicted’ to Tech
~15 min read · From 2019 · Opinion: Telling ourselves that tech 'hijacks' our brains plays right into tech's hands.
Forbes
The Worlds Of AI And Blockchain Are Colliding
3 min read · From 2019 · As more people become aware of how valuable their information is to companies, and how easily it can be used and sold, people are beginning to wonder just how easily they should give over their…
Gartner
5 Trends Appear on the Gartner Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, 2019
3 min read · From 2019 · The Gartner Hype Cycle highlights the 29 emerging technologies CIOs should experiment with over the next year.
Vox
Now the states are coming after Google and Facebook, too
3 min read · From 2019 · Investigations into Big Tech are all the rage right now — including among state attorneys general.
Entrepreneur
7 Tech Trends to Watch Out for In 2020
4 min read · From 2019 · With innovations developing fast, we predict the sector's most significant coming changes.
Ars Technica
Unix at 50—it starts with a mainframe, a gator, and three dedicated researchers
4 min read · From 2019 · Today, Unix powers iOS and Android—here's how it grew from passion project into legend.
Fast Company
Inside Amazon’s long game to put Alexa in your car
9 min read · From 2019 · Competing with Apple and Google when you don’t have your own smartphone platform is tough. But Amazon has a plan—and lots of patience.
The Guardian
Douglas Adams was right
4 min read · From 2019 · Supercomputers are solving complicated problems but we often don’t know how
Fast Company
Uh-oh: Silicon Valley is building a Chinese-style social credit system
5 min read · From 2019 · In China, scoring citizens’ behavior is official government policy. U.S. companies are increasingly doing something similar, outside the law.
WIRED
To Power AI, This Startup Built a Really, Really Big Chip
4 min read · From 2019 · Many computer chips are smaller than your fingernail. Cerebras' new chip for AI systems is bigger than a standard iPad.
Gizmodo
The Planet Needs a New Internet
~12 min read · From 2019 · 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.…
WIRED
The Raspberry Pi 4 Can’t Quite Replace a PC, but It Tries
4 min read · From 2019 · You can buy the latest Raspberry Pi as a kit with a mouse and keyboard if you want, making it more useful than ever.
TechCrunch
Nvidia breaks records in training and inference for real-time conversational AI
1 min read · From 2019 · Nvidia’s GPU-powered platform for developing and running conversational AI that understands and responds to natural language requests has achieved some key milestones and broken some records that have…
