Tag: software studies
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In this article, I will be giving 80 brief predictions on the future of computing and its impact on the broader world. These are largely predictions that you will not… more ›
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Last night, a Reddit user named frigis9 posted six images that featured detailed graphical upgrades to classic MS-DOS computer games such as Commander Keen 6 and The Secret of Monkey… more ›
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One of the biggest frustrations of text-to-image generation AI models is that they feel like a black box. We know they were trained on images pulled from the web, but… more ›
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The Indigenous Protocol and Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) Working Group develops new conceptual and practical approaches to building the next generation of A.I. systems. From an Indigenous perspective, what should our… more ›
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IIn 2021, Statista estimated that 3.09 billion cell phone users have used messaging apps to communicate. The leader? WhatsApp with over two billion monthly active users, followed by WeChat, Messenger,… more ›
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This view of the cell as a contingent, constructional entity challenges our traditional idea of what a body is, and what it can be. It also opens up some remarkable… more ›
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Shein (pronounced She In) is the fastest-growing ecommerce company in the world. It reportedly did almost $10 billion in revenue in 2020, and has grown over 100% for each of the past… more ›
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I think that, because we’re in a capitalist society, we think of AIs as amplifiers for production and consumption. But they can force-multiply on any vector if suitably directed. And,… more ›
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Charles Babbage, Ada Lovelace and Alan Turing are all celebrated as computer pioneers, but the name of John von Neumann, a brilliant Hungarian-American mathematician once nearly as well known in… more ›
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Artificial intelligence may be making some jobs obsolete but it has given a new lease of life to one group of people who play an unglamorous but critical role in… more ›