9 Best Articles in 2020
medium.com
How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds — from a Magician and Google’s Design Ethicist — Medium
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~16 min read · 1038 saves · From 2016 · When using technology, we often focus optimistically on all the things it does for us. But I want you to show you where it…
Guardian Tech
'Our minds can be hijacked': the tech insiders who fear a smartphone dystopia
Guardian Tech
977 saves · From 2017 · The Google, Apple and Facebook workers who helped make technology so addictive are disconnecting themselves from the internet. Paul Lewis reports on the Silicon…
The New York Times
Stop Trying to Be Productive
The New York Times
6 min read · 975 saves · Apr 1st · Taylor Lorenz · The internet wants you to believe you aren’t doing enough with all that “extra time” you have now. But staying inside and attending to…
Ness Labs
From FOMO to JOMO: the joy of missing out September 6, 2019 In Mental Health
Ness Labs
5 min read · 658 saves · 2019-09-06 · JOMO—the joy of missing out—is a way to live an intentional life. It’s realising that FOMO is distracting you from your life’s purpose.
MIT Technology Review
Our weird behavior during the pandemic is screwing with AI models
MIT Technology Review
6 min read · 574 saves · May 11th · Anyone looking for an illustration of how rapidly shopping habits changed when covid-19 hit needed only to glance at the top 10 search terms…
WIRED
Wikipedia Is the Last Best Place on the Internet
WIRED
3 min read · 539 saves · Feb 17th · In this article for Wired, cultural correspondent Richard Clarke tracks the origins, the day-to-day functioning and the likely future of Wikipedia. He discusses how its…
CNBC
Stanford psychology expert: This is the No. 1 work skill of the future—but most fail to realize…
CNBC
5 min read · 496 saves · 2019-10-09 · The skill you most need at work is one that also helps you at home, says psychology expert and best-selling author Nir Eyal.
Entrepreneur
6 Smart Home Gadgets That Are Actually Worth Owning
Entrepreneur
3 min read · 474 saves · Mar 9th · Like any tech product, some smart home devices are better than others.
OpenAI
Jukebox
OpenAI
7 min read · 457 saves · Apr 30th · We’re introducing Jukebox, a neural net that generates music, including rudimentary singing, as raw audio in a variety of genres and artist styles. We’re…
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Your Technology Is Tracking You. Take These Steps For Better Online Privacy
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7 min read · 278 saves · Oct 13th · Laurel Wamsley · NPR's Laurel Wamsley talked with the experts about how to better protect your information — from your text messages to your location — while…
The New Yorker
Why Facebook Can’t Fix Itself
The New Yorker
~11 min read · 263 saves · Oct 19th · Andrew Marantz · The platform is overrun with hate speech and disinformation. Does it actually want to solve the problem?
NBC News
Facebook bans QAnon across its platforms
NBC News
2 min read · 238 saves · Oct 6th · The change is a significant escalation over its previous actions targeting QAnon and one of the broadest rules the social media giant has put…
WIRED
‘Do Not Track’ Is Back, and This Time It Might Work
WIRED
2 min read · 154 saves · Oct 7th · California’s privacy law says businesses must respect universal opt-outs. Now the technology finally exists to put that to the test.
The New Yorker
Taking Back Our Privacy
The New Yorker
~11 min read · 144 saves · Oct 26th · Anna Wiener · Moxie Marlinspike, the founder of the end-to-end encrypted messaging service Signal, is “trying to bring normality to the Internet.”
youtube.com
Inventing Virtual Meetings of Tomorrow with NVIDIA AI Research
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129 saves · Oct 5th · New AI breakthroughs in NVIDIA Maxine, cloud-native video streaming AI SDK, slash bandwidth use while make it possible to re-animate faces, correct gaze and…
The Guardian
Cory Doctorow: ‘Technologists have failed to listen to non-technologists’
The Guardian
7 min read · 101 saves · Oct 10th · Ian Tucker · The tech activist on his new sci-fi novel and why we mustn’t treat the moral downsides of social media as a necessary evil
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The future of movie theaters is in your face!
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1 min read · 73 saves · Oct 5th · The release of the much talked about the new James Bond movie, No Time To Die, has been delayed until April 2021. That delay…
Scientific American
Trolling for Truth on Social Media
Scientific American
~11 min read · 71 saves · Oct 14th · What 1990s Internet protest movements share with today’s disinformation campaigns
WIRED
Amazon's Latest Gimmicks Are Pushing the Limits of Privacy
WIRED
2 min read · 66 saves · Oct 11th · Privacy advocates warn that the Ring Always Home Cam and Amazon One both normalize aggressive new forms of data collection.
