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Discover Magazine
Scientists Are Taking the Fight Against Deepfakes to Another Level
4 min · · New algorithms are helping detect deepfakes better than ever — and perhaps even fight back. · Shared by 11, including ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯
aifoundation.com
Responsibility
1 min · · Reality Defender is intelligent software built to run alongside digital experiences (such as browsing the web) to detect potentially fake media. Similar to virus protection, it scans every image,… · Shared by 5, including ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN
WIRED
Three Years of Misery Inside Google, the Happiest Company in Tech
20+ min · · Sexual harassment. Hate speech. Employee walkouts. The Silicon Valley giant is trapped in a war against itself. And there’s no end in sight. · Shared by 597, including Danny Goodwin, Nancy, Chris Messina, Florian Hanke 🍎, Dr. Marigo Raftopoulos, Gerd Leonhard, Esther Schindler, Bjorn Larsen, Mathew Ingram, Backchannel, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Steven Sinofsky, Elena Neira, Thomas Power, OM, Audrey Watters, Liliane Ferrari ™, Marsha Collier, Jeff Atwood, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr
BBC News (World)
Zimbabwe after Mugabe: The country where pensions have disappeared
· Chronic high inflation is hitting Zimbabweans hard but the government says there is no quick fix. · Shared by 4, including ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN
ESPNcricinfo
Please don't let this be the death of Zimbabwe cricket
4 min · · The ICC aims to grow the game in its member countries, but then takes decisions that instead kill it. Why? | ESPNcricinfo.com · Shared by 7, including ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN
Towards Data Science
Introduction to Decision Intelligence
19+ min · · A new discipline for leadership in the AI era · Shared by 90, including Nico Müller 🇺🇦, Andreas Staub, Oleg Baskov, Fabrizio Bianchi, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, Kirk Borne, Tom Connor, Howard Getson, Massimiliano Aroffo, Miguel Angel Escotet, Jonathan Kogan
cassie.codes
Creating my logo animation
5 min · · Last week I posted my new logo animation on twitter.Amongst everyone saying a ton of lovely things, (thankyou) there was a resounding cry of "tutorial". So I'm going to try and break it down for you.… · Shared by 68, including tcherno, Veerle Pieters, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, Design Shack, sascha aßbach, Michael Musgrove
The Guardian
How much does Google know about you?
1 min · · Alex Hern on how Google’s use of personal data has potentially helped create a new age of mass surveillance. Plus Lois Beckett on the US mass shootings · Shared by 37, including ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, Jonathan Kogan, rudolph regter, Dean Anthony Gratton, Mark Kaigwa
Bloomberg
I Tried Hiding From Silicon Valley in a Pile of Privacy Gadgets
1 min · · Avoiding digital snoops takes more than throwing money at the problem, but that part can be really fun. · Shared by 35, including ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, Luca Like, Daniel Bentes, Toby Coppel
The New Yorker
Toni Morrison and What Our Mothers Couldn’t Say
3 min · · One thing about being a black girl is that, by the time your body awakens to feeling historically out of sorts, the matriarchs are too worn out to answer questions about your origins. Morrison got us… · Shared by 20, including ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, anildash.com
The Guardian
Neil Gaiman and Chris Riddell on why we need libraries
· Two great champions of reading for pleasure return to remind us that it really is an important thing to do – and that libraries create literate citizens · Shared by 8, including ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, Carly
freeCodeCamp.org
The HTML Handbook
20+ min · · HTML is the foundation of the marvel called the Web. Discover all you need to know about it in this handy handbook! · Shared by 61, including Vikram Dutt, Benoist Lawniczak, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, Jesús Torres 👩💻, Katja Evertz, Matthew Turland, Adham Dannaway, Stephanie A Kowalski
Bellingcat
The El Paso Shooting and the Gamification of Terror
6 min · · On August 3, 2019, at around 11am local time, initial police reports indicated that a gunman had walked into an El Paso Wal-Mart and opened fire. As of the publication of this article, at least… · Shared by 99, including Fern, Rick Powell, Janosch Tröhler, luis antónio santos, Charles Baldwin, Jane, Liliane Ferrari ™, Glyn Britton, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, Gerrit Eicker, Mark Kaigwa
The New York Times
Good for Google, Bad for America
5 min · · At its core, artificial intelligence is a military technology. Why is the company sharing it with a rival? · Shared by 79, including Lord Travis Wright, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, Yvette Dubel, Florian Graillot, Stephanie A Kowalski, Katja Evertz
fungaineni.net
The Politics of Funding and Funders: My Personal Experience
13+ min · · Yesterday, I bumped into a man. Well, we didn’t really bump into each other… I was in the pharmacy looking for a quotation on a prescription. As I walked out, I heard a name – not entirely mine – b… · Shared by 5, including ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN