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WIRED
Growing Old Online
WIRED
2 min read · Sep 25th · Millennials, the first generation to be online as kids, are starting to feel like we’ve aged out. Is there a way to age gracefully on the internet? · Shared by 47, including Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Backchannel, Tactical Tech, Marsha Collier
Financial Times
India’s high-stakes bid to join the global semiconductor race
Financial Times
Sep 1st · Chipmaking could be fantastically lucrative but precision engineering has not been a traditional national strength · Shared by 67
WIRED
The Next Silicon Valley Will Be in the US Heartland
WIRED
2 min read · Sep 22nd · Steve Case, founder of AOL, predicts the dominance of tech companies on the coasts will give way to a flourishing of startups from smaller cities. · Shared by 121, including Backchannel, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA, Marsha Collier
The Atlantic
America’s False Idols
The Atlantic
9 min read · Sep 23rd · Today’s tech billionaires think they’re self-made geniuses who deserve veneration. But we don’t have to believe that. · Shared by 36, including Scott Galloway, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Guy Kawasaki
megu.space
Web3 Thoughts
megu.space
6 min read · Sep 25th · Where do I even begin? My opinion changes wildly, from taking a firmly anti-crypto stance inspired by Everest Pipkin’s environmental arguments—to thinking th... · Shared by 63
Ars Technica
A history of ARM, part 1: Building the first chip
Ars Technica
~14 min read · Sep 23rd · In 1983, Acorn Computers needed a CPU. So 10 people built one. · Shared by 38, including Kevin C. Tofel 🇺🇦, Paul Graham
MIT Technology Review
The world is moving closer to a new cold war fought with authoritarian tech
MIT Technology Review
2 min read · Sep 22nd · At the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit, Iran, Turkey, and Myanmar promised tighter trade relationships with Russia and China. · Shared by 18, including Peter McCormack 🏴☠️
NFX
From Biotech to TechBio
NFX
5 min read · Sep 7th · The shift from biotech to TechBio enables us to do the most important things on earth: heal, feed, and provide for ourselves & our planet. · Shared by 5
WIRED
What Modern Humans Can Learn From Ancient Software
WIRED
3 min read · Sep 15th · Retrocomputing is about more than nostalgic nerdery. It’s also a way to keep your tech in perspective. · Shared by 50, including Marsha Collier, Esther Schindler, Paul Ford, Jennifer Ouellette, Klaus Eck, Backchannel
Aeon+Psyche
What the journey from Star Trek to Siri says about our culture
Aeon+Psyche
4 min read · Sep 20th · The talking computer in Star Trek takes the culture and technology of the present and dreams up future possibilities · Shared by 87, including Kelson Loke, Ines Bieler
The New York Times
How China Has Added to Its Influence Over the iPhone
The New York Times
6 min read · Sep 6th · Apple is taking small steps toward India. But the production of its latest phone, set for introduction on Wednesday, shows how difficult it will be to make big changes. · Shared by 76, including Michael (मुकेश) 🇺🇦💪🏻, Tarik ESSAADI
Dazed
The author who coined ‘metaverse’ is building his own online world
Dazed
2 min read · Sep 23rd · Snow Crash writer Neal Stephenson has teamed up with a crypto bro to create an open metaverse and fight back against Big Tech · Shared by 25
The New York Times
Is the Hyperloop Doomed?
The New York Times
7 min read · Sep 22nd · Though some efforts continue, the once-promising technology has run up against significant challenges — most notably creating an entirely new transit infrastructure. · Shared by 30, including Sam Maule, Allison Arieff
The Verge
How platforms turn boring
The Verge
5 min read · Sep 22nd · How to tell when a platform is going bad. · Shared by 108, including Anna Grigoryan, Dominic Grzbielok, Karen K. Ho, Taylor Lorenz, Ines Bieler, John Herrman, Danny Goodwin, Josh Constine 📶🔥, Mathew Ingram, Josh Elman, Andreas Spiegler, Mac McCann
Al Jazeera English
Modern ID systems: Watching a global identity crisis unfold
Al Jazeera English
2 min read · Sep 16th · On International Identity Day, it is time to question whether technology-based identity systems are actually inclusive. · Shared by 112, including David Owen
youtube.com
1994: Are YOU Ready for the INTERNET?
youtube.com
Sep 3rd · Kate Bellingham reports that an exciting new interconnected world - a world where every word ever written, every picture ever painted and ever film ever shot... · Shared by 19
The Verge
Tim Cook revealed the real reason Apple won’t fix green bubbles
The Verge
2 min read · Sep 8th · It’s all about the iPhone. · Shared by 70
The New York Times
Tech Companies Slowly Shift Production Away From China
The New York Times
7 min read · Sep 1st · Worried about geopolitical tensions and stung by pandemic shutdowns, Google, Apple and others are moving some work to nearby countries. · Shared by 70
WIRED UK
Telegram Has a Serious Doxing Problem
WIRED UK
1 min read · Sep 20th · The encrypted messaging app is a haven for politically motivated vitriol, but users are increasingly bringing threats to targets’ doorsteps. · Shared by 60, including Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Tarik ESSAADI
The Atlantic
The Dark Side of Frictionless Technology
The Atlantic
7 min read · Sep 20th · Living in an exhausting world of obsolescence. · Shared by 38, including Allison Arieff, Merkstatt, Gerd Leonhard
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The Atlantic
What’s Really Behind Those AI Art Images?
The Atlantic
4 min read · Sep 7th · What feels like magic is actually incredibly complicated and ethically fraught. · Shared by 312, including Tim, Anne Helen Petersen
VICE
The Rise of Mobile Gambling Is Leaving People Ruined and Unable to Quit
VICE
9 min read · Sep 6th · Financial catastrophe is now only a few clicks away, a problem that is showing quiet signs of becoming a crisis. "I can't just get rid of my phone," one problem gambler says. · Shared by 267, including Yann “shalf@mastodon.social” Heurtaux 不停, Dr. Alec Couros, Nir Eyal
typefully.com
QR codes | Dan Hollick 🇿🇦
typefully.com
2 min read · Sep 14th · Ever wondered how a QR code works? No, me neither but it's low-key fascinating. (Warning, there is some extremely nerdy shit here.👇 ) · Shared by 239, including Nando 💪🇦🇺🇦🇷, Boris Périsset, Esther Schindler, Neil Lee, Mohamed Azazy, Jesús Torres 👩💻, Lisa Gualtieri, Cyril Coste #DigitalTransformation
WIRED
The Three-City Problem of Modern Life
WIRED
~12 min read · Aug 28th · What does Athens have to do with Jerusalem—and what do either have to do with Silicon Valley? · Shared by 220, including Backchannel
incoherency.co.uk
James Stanley - Cheating at chess with a computer for my shoes
incoherency.co.uk
7 min read · Sep 6th · Sat 30 July 2022 Tagged: software, 3dprinting, chess, electronics I have come up with a new way to win at chess: I have connected up a Raspberry Pi Zero in my pocket to some buttons and vibration… · Shared by 211
Real Life
Life’s a Glitch — Real Life
Real Life
~17 min read · Aug 29th · The non-apocalypse of Y2K obscures the lessons it has for the present · Shared by 191, including Taylor Lorenz
Singularity Hub
This Mighty Brain Chip Is So Efficient It Could Bring Advanced AI to Your Phone
Singularity Hub
5 min read · Aug 30th · The NeuRRAM chip is a powerful neuromorphic computing behemoth with 48 parallel cores and 3 million memory cells. · Shared by 170, including Brian Ahier, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer
Ars Technica
Forget 5G wireless, SpaceX and T-Mobile want to offer Zero-G coverage
Ars Technica
4 min read · Aug 26th · Shared by 149, including Keith Keller, Nicolas Babin #CES2023, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Martin Varsavsky 🇺🇦
Craig Mod
Electric Bike, Stupid Love of My Life
Craig Mod
8 min read · Sep 6th · Reflections on eighteen months of electric bike ownership · Shared by 135, including Horace Dediu, Kevin Marks, Ole Begemann
New York Magazine
AI Art Is Here and the World Is Already Different
New York Magazine
~11 min read · Sep 19th · Work, communication, and even thought change when we can instantly command convincing images into existence. · Shared by 128, including Jeff Richards, John Herrman, Robert Scoble
All-time favorites
Tim Urban
The Artificial Intelligence Revolution: Part 1
Tim Urban
20+ min read · From 2017 · Part 1 of 2: "The Road to Superintelligence". Artificial Intelligence — the topic everyone in the world should be talking about. · Shared by 1630, including Ricky Yean, Mark Kaigwa, Gideonro, Marko Saric, Aleksandra Wisniewska, Kris Fannin, FANZO 🧢 #NFT365, Casey Smith, #bottish, Thomas Power, Sir Lord Travis Wright, Web3 Speaker, Christoph Magnussen, Ian M Calvert, Herbert Bay, Parin Vachhani, Chris Messina, Josep M. Ganyet, Courtney Bolton ★, Ron McIntyre, Max Roser
The Verge
NFTs, explained
The Verge
~16 min read · 2021-03-03 · Shared by 1506, including Helen Yu, Frances 'Cassandra' Coppola, Mark Anderson FCCT 💛✨👨🏽🏫🏆🌈, Neil Lewis, Jr., PhD, Dave Kellogg, Stig Ørskov, Tom Muller, BrendanEich, CyberCodeTwins.eth 👾// NINER FURY TANGO, Frank Gruber, Michael (मुकेश) 🇺🇦💪🏻, Scott Berkun, Kelsey D. Atherton, Bill Johnston, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Real Marsha Wright®, 𝚃𝚒𝚏𝚏𝚊𝚗𝚢 𝙷𝚊𝚢𝚍𝚎𝚗, Dave McClure, Paul Roetzer, Chris Skinner
moxie.org
My first impressions of web3
moxie.org
~14 min read · Jan 7th · Despite considering myself a cryptographer, I have not found myself particularly drawn to “crypto.” I don’t think I’ve ever actually said the words “get off my lawn,” but I’m much more likely to click… · Shared by 1437, including BrendanEich, Vala Afshar, Ryan Selkis 🥷, zeldman, Michael A. Stelzner, Casey Newton, Martin Fowler, дэн, Robert Scoble, Laura Shin, Ezra Klein, SwiftOnSecurity, Brian Armstrong, Ryan Hoover, Jeff Jarvis, Benedict Evans, Charles Hoskinson, hardmaru, Michael Arrington 🏴☠️, Steven Sinofsky
Quanta Magazine
Computing Expert Says Programmers Need More Math
Quanta Magazine
9 min read · May 17th · Leslie Lamport revolutionized how computers talk to each other. Now he’s working on how engineers talk to their machines. · Shared by 1397, including Ines Bieler, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Nico Müller 🇺🇦, Marcos, Ben Lorica 罗瑞卡, Steven Sinofsky, Christopher D. Long (Крістофер Д. Лонг), Matthew Turland
tante
The Third Web
tante
20+ min read · 2021-12-17 · I had hoped that I wouldn’t have to write this thing, that blockchains and NFTs and all that would just go away and become a chapter in a book about weird economic scams. But if 2021 taught us anything it’s that we can’t have nice things so here we are. · Shared by 1395, including Mathew Ingram, Mark Kaigwa, Clemens M. Schuster, Tactical Tech, Pablo Felip, Thomas Knüwer, your #1 source for absurdist true crime 🐍👑 🌷, Nils Hitze, Michael Seemann, Dion Almaer, Kevin Marks, Katja Evertz, Richard MacManus, Yann “shalf@mastodon.social” Heurtaux 不停, rufuspollock, Fabio Chiusi, Luca Hammer, Nicolas Kayser-Bril, Jakob Adler
MIT Technology Review
10 Breakthrough Technologies 2020
MIT Technology Review
Summary · ~14 min read · From 2020 · MIT Technology Review’s 10 Breakthrough Technologies for 2020 outlines scientific discoveries, available now or in the very near future, that could most profoundly change people’s lives. Included this year: unhackable internet service; individual designer drugs; the proliferation of digital currency; anti-aging treatments; AI molecule searches for better medicines; satellite constellations boosting remote internet access; new uses for quantum computers, tiny, powerful AI apps for phones; bolstering Census privacy; and more accurate climate change forecasts. · Shared by 1338, including Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Sam Harris, 🟣 Antonio Vieira Santos #FutureOfWork #InnoTrans2, getAbstract, Vala Afshar, Martin Ford, Harry Briggs, R.NFT R “Ray” Wang 王瑞光 #SuiteWorld #UIPathForward, danah boyd, Martin Varsavsky 🇺🇦, Thomas Power, Katja Evertz, Claudia Sommer, Eric Topol, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, John Nosta, Brian Ahier, Daniel Kraft, MD, Gerd Leonhard, Marc R Gagné MAPP 🍁
Vox
What is the point of crypto?
Vox
~17 min read · May 16th · Crypto is a solution in search of a problem — or problems. · Shared by 1256, including yeon, Dorothea Baur (Dr.), Mathew Ingram, Stef Walter, David Papandrew, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer
Real Life
Temporal Belonging — Real Life
Real Life
~15 min read · Jun 1st · The timeless, futile effort to fix circadian rhythms with tech · Shared by 1221, including Neil Hart 💙, Colin Wright
numinous.productions
How can we develop transformative tools for thought?
numinous.productions
From 2019 · Shared by 1200, including Andy Matuschak, Alexander Seifert, Mario Clemente, Evan (he/him), Dominik Grolimund, tylercowen, Dion Almaer, Nicky Case rarely & begrudgingly uses this site, Phillip Murphy, Michael Nielsen, cantlin, Anne-Laure Le Cunff, Jonathan Kogan, Gabriele, Jens-Christian Fischer, Mattia Fregola 🤔, Richard MacManus, Oleg Baskov, Gordon Brander, Enrico Bertini
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