Tag: internet

• Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Free Speech

  December 14, 2019

  After a decade or so of the general sentiment being in favor of the internet and social media as a way to enable more speech and improve the marketplace of… more ›

• e-Conomy SEA 2019: Swipe up and to the right: Southeast Asia’s $100 billion internet economy

  November 11, 2019

  Companies are switching their focus from acquiring new customers to driving engagement. Their goal is to convince users to stay on their platforms for longer, in the belief that purchases… more ›

• Experts: Spy used AI-generated face to connect with targets

  June 13, 2019

  LONDON (AP) — Katie Jones sure seemed plugged into Washington’s political scene. The 30-something redhead boasted a job at a top think tank and a who’s-who network of pundits and… more ›

• The Spycraft Revolution

  June 9, 2019

  The world of espionage is facing tremendous technological, political, legal, social, and commercial changes. The winners will be those who break the old rules of the spy game and work… more ›

• Africa’s Pulse, No. 19, April 2019 : An Analysis of Issues Shaping Africa’s Economic Future

  April 28, 2019

  https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/31499 more ›

• How Google is building its huge subsea cable infrastructure

  April 25, 2019

  Google announced a milestone in its bid to control the world’s internet infrastructure with its first privately funded international subsea cable touching down in Chile yesterday. https://venturebeat.com/2019/04/24/how-google-is-building-its-huge-subsea-cable-infrastructure/ more ›

• The Hottest App in China Teaches Citizens About Their Leader — and, Yes, There’s a Test

  April 8, 2019

  CHANGSHA, China — Inside a fishing gear store on a busy city street, the owner sits behind a counter, furiously tapping a smartphone to improve his score on an app… more ›

• The Daily Miracle: Finding Magic Inside The Times’s Printing Plant

  April 8, 2019

  Consider the newspaper, the physical object, printed on processed wood pulp, shot upward on rollers at high speed as ink is applied, gathered and folded and bundled, dropped off at… more ›

• Inside Google’s Rebooted Robotics Program

  March 27, 2019

  In 2013, the company started an ambitious, flashy effort to create robots. Now, its goals are more modest, but the technology is subtly more advanced. MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/26/technology/google-robotics-lab.html more ›

• How Strongmen Turned Interpol Into Their Personal Weapon

  March 22, 2019

  BRUSSELS — Hakeem al-Araibi thought he had escaped the reach of the Bahraini government when he fled to Australia years ago as a political refugee. But last year he ventured… more ›