Tag: media

• Taliban fighters double as reporters to wage Afghan digital war

  May 20, 2019

  KABUL (Reuters) – Zabihullah Mujahid, the Taliban’s chief spokesman and editor-in-chief of the insurgent group’s daily news bulletin, starts every day by collecting reports of overnight fighting with U.S. and… more ›

• Kiss Cam — Real Life

  May 5, 2019

  Last Sunday, while I was at a baseball game (the Phillies vs. the Marlins, at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia), the middle-aged couple sitting next to me made it onto… more ›

• May 5, 2019

  https://spectrum.ieee.org/consumer-electronics/audiovideo/hearables-will-monitor-your-brain-and-body-to-augment-your-life more ›

• Who’s using your face? The ugly truth about facial recognition

  April 21, 2019

  Gain a global perspective on the US and go beyond with curated news and analysis from 600 journalists in 50+ countries covering politics, business, innovation, trends and more. https://www.ft.com/content/cf19b956-60a2-11e9-b285-3acd5d43599e more ›

• Smile, You’re Speaking Emoji: The Rapid Evolution of a Wordless Tongue

  April 13, 2019

  The rapid evolution of a wordless tongue. Consider the tilde. There it is, that little squiggle, hanging out on the far-upper-left-hand side of your ­computer keyboard. http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/11/emojis-rapid-evolution.html 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 ›

• Squaring up: how Insta-fashion is changing the way we shop

  April 8, 2019

  We’ve all bought them at some time or another: the perfect pair of shoes. Stylish, comfortable – the kind you wear with everything until they fall apart, and you have… more ›

• Mark Zuckerberg

  April 1, 2019

  This year I’m hosting a series of discussions about the future of technology and society. This time I sat down with Mathias Döpfner in Berlin. He started… https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10107028379388161 more ›

• Joi Ito’s Web

  March 18, 2019

  Ito, J. (2019). 2019 Applied Ethical and Governance Challenges in AI – Notes from Part I. . https://ift.tt/2UGj4EL Vancouver Ito J. 2019 Applied Ethical and Governance Challenges in AI –… more ›