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What If Women Built the Internet?
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What If Women Built the Internet?

Posted on March 4, 2019March 4, 2019 by Michael Sauers

All the things we love on the internet — from websites that give us information to services that connect us — are made stronger when…

Why is This Happening? Blocking Big Tech with Kashmir Hill
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Why is This Happening? Blocking Big Tech with Kashmir Hill

Posted on February 19, 2019February 19, 2019 by Michael Sauers
Friday Video: Douglas Rushkoff: “Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus” | Talks at Google
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Friday Video: Douglas Rushkoff: “Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus” | Talks at Google

Posted on February 15, 2019February 6, 2019 by Michael Sauers

The digital economy has gone wrong. Everybody knows it, but no one knows quite how to fix it, or even how to explain the problem.…

Friday Video: How to Be Futuristic, Bruce Sterling
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Friday Video: How to Be Futuristic, Bruce Sterling

Posted on February 1, 2019January 31, 2019 by Michael Sauers

The future is a kind of history that hasn’t happened yet. The past is a kind of future that has already happened. The present moment…

Facebook’s ’10 Year Challenge’ is Just a Harmless Meme—Right?
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Facebook’s ’10 Year Challenge’ is Just a Harmless Meme—Right?

Posted on January 16, 2019January 16, 2019 by Michael Sauers

Imagine that you wanted to train a facial recognition algorithm on age-related characteristics and, more specifically, on age progression (e.g., how people are likely to…

Microsoft says the rural broadband divide is worse than you think
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Microsoft says the rural broadband divide is worse than you think

Posted on December 15, 2018December 15, 2018 by Michael Sauers

Politicians and regulators like to say they’re increasing access to broadband in rural areas, but the reality might be far less rosy. Microsoft has conducted…

How to pronounce .gif: The arguments and the rebuttals
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How to pronounce .gif: The arguments and the rebuttals

Posted on November 30, 2018 by Michael Sauers

Is it pronounced GIF (hard G) or JIF (soft G)? Let’s look at the standard arguments on both sides followed by the standard rebuttals. Argument…

Friday Video: Cory Doctorow, “Decentralize, Democratize, or Die”
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Friday Video: Cory Doctorow, “Decentralize, Democratize, or Die”

Posted on November 9, 2018November 6, 2018 by Michael Sauers

Devcon4 presentation on Nov 1, 2018 in Prague by Cory Doctorow, “Decentralize, Democratize, or Die”. https://devcon4.ethereum.org

Mashup Monday: Google location heatmap
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Mashup Monday: Google location heatmap

Posted on November 5, 2018November 5, 2018 by Michael Sauers

Today’s mashup is one you can create with your Google location Data. Assuming you have an Android phone and haven’t turned off location tracking, you…

Friday Video: The Facebook Dilemma
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Friday Video: The Facebook Dilemma

Posted on November 2, 2018November 2, 2018 by Michael Sauers

Facebook’s promise was to create a more open and connected world. FRONTLINE finds that multiple warnings about the platform’s negative impact on privacy and democracy…

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