About the difference of three kinds of designers out there today: classical designers, design thinkers, and computational designers.

About “The New Organs”, a project to gather, archive and investigate the theories and realities of corporate surveillance.

Andreessen Horowitz is taking the unusual step of renouncing its venture capital status—and making even bigger, riskier bets.

Corporate Gaslighting [available at TheyTriedToKillMeButI.Live] is Rob Campbell’s attempt to try and stop the slow, systematic abuse from a management style where the goal appears to be to systematically destroy the confidence and self-worth of their employees.

“Elon Musk: The Architect of Tomorrow” is published by Rolling Stone in RollingStone

We’re excited to launch a collaborative self-teaching resource to investigations from Tactical Tech’s Exposing the Invisible project.

Mark Zuckerberg took a major new step over the weekend, issuing a blunt call for government intervention to set rules for the internet – and Facebook. This is a sea change, and historic, even if far too late. Yet, Facebook’s CEO deserves credit for finally and clearly acknowledging that the respective roles of government and net platforms has to change.

Lego’s newest STEM set uses bright colors, friendly shapes, and a simple coding environment to get 11- to 14-year olds into robotics.

Sidewalk Labs built an app to automate the tedious data collection involved in public life studies–while still keeping humans in the loop.

Why bother with degrees like History or English? Here’s why the liberal arts could leave you better prepared for employment than you think.

Every 60 years, one of Japan’s most sacred Shinto shrines, Izumo Oyashiro, is reconstructed in an ancient ritual that dates back 1,300 years. Photographer Yukihito Masuura documented the 12-year process

This week, at the research institute AI Now‘s annual symposium, experts debated some of the most critical issues in society through the lens of AI. The event brought together law and politics…

In a new essay for BBC’s Deep Civilisation series, British philosopher Tom Chatfield explores how technology has co-evolved alongside humans. While humans have only existed as a brief interval on the cosmic timescale, the process of “recursive iteration” that defines our relationsh

Police officers aren’t known for their sense of style, but now a former vintage clothing buyer is using her forensic knowledge of garments to help solve crimes. It’s time to call the fashion police…

A media theorist explains how digital technology undermines our ability to connect

“Aging is not a disease, otherwise living would be a disease, but you can’t make money off satisfaction,” Applewhite says.

March was a quiet month on the blog front. My apologies for that; other projects and deadlines were consuming the time I’d ordinarily devote to writing on here. The two posts that did make it up, as I noted then, were both surplus thoughts stemming from one of those other projects. Looking ahead, most of…

Stickers that are invisible to drivers and fool autopilot.

Brown will leave his role as CEO after 19 years, with longtime Ideo exec Sandy Speicher stepping into the role.

No established democracies have ever come as close to applying such sweeping restrictions as Australia and New Zealand are considering in the wake of the Christchurch mosque shootings.

Intercept’s Alice Speri, author Cory Doctorow, and musician Katie Alice Greer are this week’s guests.

The surveillance economy is coming, and it’s no coincidence that its first stop is in marginalized communities.

A tale of romance, performance, surveillance, and loss.

David Kong felt shattered after a recent business trip to Chongqing.
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Urban data is used to trace issues even before they occur. Sounds comforting perhaps — unless we’re going to be judged on predicted behavior. There’s a long history of data being generated from…

Tencent, Xiaomi and others are censoring the GitHub page over “illegal information”

This week, the High Court of Kenya suspended core aspects of the National Integrated Identity Management System (NIIMS), popularly referred to as Huduma Namba, meaning “government service number,”…

Massachusetts Institute of Technology is ending its funding ties with Chinese telecoms giants Huawei and ZTE, citing the risks of such arrangements in the light of US federal investigations of the two companies.
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As a self-proclaimed tech-enthusiast, I’ve been following the tech review community, especially on YouTube, for quite a while. During that time, I recognized a certain pattern emerge after every new…

The cameras are disclosed, but that doesn’t necessarily mean you know where they are.

Google says its planned Dunant cable from Virginia to France will transmit 250 terabits per second, enough to zap the Library of Congress through it three times a second.

Amazon is joining the race to provide affordable broadband internet access around the globe via thousands of satellites in low Earth orbit.

This is a critical time for city leaders across the United States and around the world. Cities are increasingly understood as the places where humanity’s greatest challenges, from climate change to…

Google’s translation headphones are here, and they’re going to start a war. Douglas Adams’ in-ear translator from Hitchhiker’s Guide is becoming a reality. But knowing what people are really saying could be…

With the rise of direct to consumer (DTC) genetic testing companies, and an explosion of genomic data emerging from individual DNA, genome companies are racing to build a search engine for our DNA.

Technology now allows us to monitor, promote, augment, and manage our well-being. Analyst Owyang pioneers here a new chart that outlines the entire industry, which is of impressive size already. Digitized low-cost technologies will make wellness accessible to anyone.

UPS is teaming up with autonomous delivery drone startup Matternet to experiment with using drones to deliver medical supplies. The supplies will be delivered via Matternet’s M2 quadcopters to WakeMed hospital in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Identifying a patient’s viral infection or diagnosing a blood disorder usually requires a lab and skilled technicians. In an important step toward performing medical diagnoses using handheld devices, researchers at Princeton have adapted silicon chip technology similar to that found in personal computers and mobile phones to function as a biosensor.

Walmart Inc. will let customers order groceries by voice through Google’s smart-home assistant, an attempt to counter Amazon.com Inc.’s growing clout in e-commerce.

These data researchers found that for startups, scientists, and terrorists alike, learning too little from experience spells doom.

See the full blog post: https://wayve.ai/blog/driving-like-human

The “Brink List” includes investors who are poised to join the Midas ranks and have been making a name for themselves in the venture capital industry. After receiving dozens of nominations, TrueBridge collaborated with Forbes to select the finalists.

Healthcare, growing to $10 Trillion US globally, lags behind nearly 80% of other industries in innovative technology adoption, and in fact is at the bottom five across industries. However this is about to change in the next three years. This SXSW session serves as a catalyst for a conversation..

In a relentlessly changing environment, the complexity of problems is increasing faster than our ability to solve them. Trying to play catch up breaks people down and burns them out. The dynamics in…

“Time management” is not a solution — it’s actually part of the problem.

Businesses of the 21st-century search for agility through advanced organizational interventions; but what if there is an inside-out way to agility through foresight leadership? Sharing more on our research findings on human-centered leadership attributes with Stanford University’s CCARE.

China has officially recognized 13 new job titles – including drone pilot and eSports player – in order to keep up with the fast-changing face of the country’s workforce.
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Is it possible to take down the internet by physically attacking its infrastructure?

Think back to the last time you met up with a friend for dinner. How many times did you look at your phone during the meal? Chances are, you checked it at least once, if not more often, without even…

Most of us are pretty well aware of the public blockchains like Ethereum with the built-in functionality of smart contracts apart from the well-known features of transparency, security & privacy. The…

Matthias Kröner, founder and CEO of German digital bank Fidor, has parted ways with the company he founded in 2009, following a blow up over future…

In what has been described as a hard-fought legal battle the 13th District Court of New York issued a clear victory for the group known as the Fintech Mafia today over a multi-year legal dispute with…

The BBC has spoken to a number of former employees about compliance at the currency transfer firm.

The European Commission has launched a European Forum for Innovation Facilitators (EFIF), to improve cooperation and coordination of national regulatory…

Published: March 29, 2019 A conversation with Mike Sigal, Partner at 500 Startups Fintech Fund and Co-Founder of Upside Partners, about his latest venture, 20022 Labs ISO 20022 - the global messaging standard that allows rich data to travel with electronic payments - plays a foundational role in Canada’s payments Modernization initiative as well as similar initiatives around

A Belgian regulator is warning citizens about the associated risks of dealing with cryptocurrencies after identifying seven new scam websites, bringing the total to 120.

With a new fundamental technology such as blockchain, industry collaboration is vital. Initiative such as INATBA can contribute to a better blockchain ecosystem.

More than 40,000 customers around the globe were surveyed for their opinions on their current and former banking relationships to determine the best banks in 23 different countries. ING rates highly in eight countries.

Dutch banks ING, ASN, Moneyou, RegioBank, and Triodos best banks in world on Forbes’ first World’s Best Banks list.

Anticipating the impact of AI Ethics within the Public sector

It’s about the hardware, yes. But more and more it’s about the AI inside the scarycute dogs and humanoids.

Sometimes the “witness” is a process or a machine. “How we think about evidence hasn’t gotten with the times, and we need to grapple with these problems.”

The US Food and Drug Administration has announced that it is preparing to regulate AI systems that can update and improve themselves as they gorge on more training data.

DARPA’s Subterranean Challenge will task teams of robots with autonomous exploration deep beneath the surface of the Earth

Letter: The risk that humanity faces comes not from malevolent machines but from incompetent programmers, writes Martyn Thomas

At least 25 prominent researchers are calling on the company to stop selling the technology to law enforcement agencies, citing concerns that it has built-in biases.

More than 900 employees sign letter criticizing abrupt firing of contractors, who make up 54% of Google’s workforce

Staffers criticized the appointment of Heritage Foundation president Kay Coles James in a letter published on Monday

ON MARCH 28th the American government sued Facebook for allowing advertisers to exclude whole categories of people from seeing ads for housing—couples with children, non-Americans, non-Christians, disabled people, Hispanics, and so on.

Ethics. It’s a scary word. It can sure take the fun out of a room. It evokes finger pointing and finger waving. It sounds like rules and limits and thou-shalt-nots. It sounds like unwelcome…

AI Ethics Are Hard Google formed and then within a week dissolved an AI Ethics board, in the corporate equivalent of many celebrity weddings: ill conceived, but quickly ended. The calls for ethics in…

Big tech companies like Google and Microsoft have embraced AI ethics boards and charters, assuring the public that they’re essential to keeping the worst effects of machine learning in control. But are these projects actually helping anyone?

One member resigned and two more are under fire. It’s only a week old.

Decision comes after employees called for the removal of a rightwing thinktank leader from the council

They won’t be leaving “bros out in the cold,” says Patagonia. Here’s how the company is thinking about its famous banker fleeces.

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It’s nestled by Hudson Yards, a shiny and pricey new smart neighborhood on Manhattan’s once-blighted West Side, and this giant lurching structure is supposed to…

Following last summer’s blockbuster installation in London, Christo has turned his attention to the City of Light by wrapping the Arc de Triomphe in recyclable fabric

A selection of the best our favourite videos featured on Booooooom TV this week!

In a long, often terrifying career, The Mystery Man from ‘Lost Highway’ sticks out as the stuff of nightmares.

A homage to the two iconic drama series Game of Thrones and Westworld and to title designers Patrick Clair and Raoul Marks. The project came to fruition over…

Blade Runner tours