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5 votes
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How lobbyists rewrote Washington state’s privacy law
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Magnetic micro-robots
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Safe Schools scare campaign targets Chinese-Australian voters
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Mark Zuckerberg & Yuval Noah Harari in Conversation
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The woman who plotted a Valentine's mass murder shares how the internet radicalized her
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The five biggest lies about 5G
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Ireland is blocking the world on data privacy - it's the designated lead regulator for many companies under EU privacy law, but it's in bed with the companies it should be regulating
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Walmart unveils an AI-powered store of the future, now open to the public
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MuseNet, a deep neural network that can generate four-minute musical compositions with ten different instruments
6 votes -
Samsung Galaxy Fold teardown
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Tesla’s autonomy event: Impressive progress with an unrealistic timeline
7 votes -
Facebook's email-harvesting practice is under investigation in NY
7 votes -
Cox introduces 'Elite Gamer' internet fast lane
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"It's not play if you're making money": How Instagram and YouTube disrupted child labor laws
9 votes -
Invisible malware is here and your security software can't catch it
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Joint investigation of Facebook, Inc. by the Privacy Commissioner of Canada and the Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia
9 votes -
How Twitter users compare to the general American public
9 votes -
Faceless together - What is 4chan
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It’s Complicated: Mozilla’s 2019 Internet Health Report
8 votes -
People are manipulating you on Facebook
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Fei-Fei Li & Yuval Noah Harari in Conversation - The Coming AI Upheaval
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The Rise and Fall of Internet Art Communities, from DeviantArt to Tumblr
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Facebook releases Q1 2019 earnings, expects to be fined up to $5 billion by US government
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Samsung delays Galaxy Fold indefinitely: ‘We will take measures to strengthen the display’
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The only way to rein in Big Tech is to treat them as a public service
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Meet your iPhone’s grandparent
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Experience with coding camps for kids?
HIVE MIND Hey folks! Have any of you: Sent your kids to one of those “coding camps” Gone to one of said camps as a kid Worked at or for one of said camps Mostly he's looking for experiences from...
HIVE MIND Hey folks! Have any of you:
- Sent your kids to one of those “coding camps”
- Gone to one of said camps as a kid
- Worked at or for one of said camps
Mostly he's looking for experiences from the past five years or so.
One of my authors is writing an article on the topic, so please get in touch! jfruh@jfruh.com!
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Huawei row: UK to let Chinese firm help build 5G network
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When a country bans social media - Sri Lanka’s ban on social media forces a question nobody wants to ask: what if a global media network is impossible?
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The Black feminists who saw the alt-right threat coming
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Light themes or Dark themes?
Traditionally I've used dark themes for everything I could on all of my devices, as I found it easier on the eyes when I'd usually use my computer (evening - night). Recently, I made the switch...
Traditionally I've used dark themes for everything I could on all of my devices, as I found it easier on the eyes when I'd usually use my computer (evening - night). Recently, I made the switch back to light stuff as I've been using my computer more for notes and assignments I'd normally hand-write, and I find I get drowsy less and have an easier time using the computer in a bright room than before - I just switched my theme on a whim one morning, so I wasn't expecting that at all!
So now I'm rethinking all my previous bias about dark themes being 'better' regardless of the situation, and I'm curious if anyone here had any thoughts and/or could point me to some reading on the subject (the subject being the effects of light/dark colours in work or concentration). It's something I realize now might be fairly important, as I'm looking at my screen for most of the day, but never really gave much thought before outside of tracking down the 'Dark' theme switch.
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Which smartphone and carrier are you using? (USA only)
For the past five or so years I've been using prepaid mvno carriers (in the us btw) and buying my own phone. It's somewhat of a frustrating experience trying to figure out which phones will...
For the past five or so years I've been using prepaid mvno carriers (in the us btw) and buying my own phone. It's somewhat of a frustrating experience trying to figure out which phones will actually work with which carrier. There's a lot of very attractivly priced phones from Chinese companies that unfortunately just don't support the u.s. LTE bands that i need. Im not really the kind of person who wants to buy a $600+ flagship and carrier offerings are generally abysmal and overpriced.
I also don't feel like I have very many options for carriers as I Live in a fairly rural area where t-mobile gets fairly spotty coverage. I have seen compelling options for Verizon if I wanted 4+ lines (it's only me and the wife right now, so that doesn't help us much) .
I'm definitely jealous of people in Europe and parts of Asia when it comes to cellphone and internet options.16 votes -
How to hone your disruption-spotting skills
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The sharing economy is going to innovate us into the Victorian Era
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Human contact is now a luxury good | Screens used to be for the elite. Now avoiding them is a status symbol.
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Julian Assange's prosecution is about much more than attempting to hack a password
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WhatsApp has become a hotbed for spreading Nazi propaganda in Germany
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Labor demands Facebook remove 'fake news' posts about false Australian death tax plans
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Don’t buy a 5G smartphone—at least, not for a while
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Marcus “MalwareTech” Hutchins pleads guilty to writing, selling banking malware
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We are back at square one of personal messaging
I can't shake the dejavu feeling I'm getting using any kind of messaging these days. Today we have an awful lot of messaging apps, that are all roughly the same, with similar features - Signal,...
I can't shake the dejavu feeling I'm getting using any kind of messaging these days. Today we have an awful lot of messaging apps, that are all roughly the same, with similar features - Signal, Telegram, WhatsApp, Riot, etc. This happened once already, at the dawn of 200X IM revolution that deprecated SMS for good we also had MSN, ICQ, GTalk, Jabber, etc. This also was a set of very similar personal messaging clients and protocols, similar in any way to each other. It all changed when the multi-protocol messaging apps came out - Pidgin, QiP, Miranda and others made it easy to gather all your contacts from various protocols in one place and to keep in touch with everyone. Shortly after Jabber transports were made so you could congregate all other accounts into one single XMPP account. Even N900 that came out in 2009 had the ability to gather various accounts into one single contact list.
I feel like right now with all the segmented IM apps it's a good time for something like this to happen again, and Telegram already has wat-bridge.
What are your thoughts on that topic? Do you think the history will repeat itself? Would a new federated formate like XMPP rise up?30 votes -
The OpenAI team are holding an AMA on /r/Dota2, after their bots defeated the current champion team of the game
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Report: Twenty-six states now ban or restrict community broadband
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The antique toaster that's better than yours
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Google and Amazon make up — YouTube coming to Fire TV
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Austrian government seeks to eliminate internet anonymity, with severe penalties
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Carole Cadwalladr: Facebook's role in Brexit -- and the threat to democracy
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Survey: 83% of US teens have an iPhone, Android 9%
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How the Boeing 737 Max disaster looks to a software developer
11 votes