Tag: software studies

• China Targets Big Tech’s Algorithms as Crackdown Persists

  April 12, 2022

  China kicked off a formal campaign to rein in the potential abuse of algorithms by internet giants from ByteDance Ltd. to Tencent Holdings Ltd., taking aim at the way social… more ›

• Reality Intrudes on a Utopian Crypto Vision

  March 10, 2022

  WASHINGTON — American CryptoFed is a new kind of company spawned by the advent of cryptocurrency — one that claims, in a way, not to be a company at all.… more ›

• Why you can’t rebuild Wikipedia with crypto

  February 17, 2022

  Programming note: I’m planning to take Wednesday off the newsletter so I can focus on a panel I’m moderating at Pivot Con in Miami. (I’ll be interviewing Parler CEO George… more ›

• Yanis Varoufakis on Crypto & the Left, and Techno-Feudalism

  February 13, 2022

  “Rare is the person who could expertly comment – in a single interview! – on the rise of NFTs and their origins in the virtual worlds of gaming, the logic… more ›

• An ancient language has defied translation for 100 years. Can AI crack the code?

  February 12, 2022

  Jiaming Luo grew up in mainland China thinking about neglected languages. When he was younger, he wondered why the different languages his mother and father spoke were often lumped together… more ›

• I Used Apple AirTags, Tiles and a GPS Tracker to Watch My Husband’s Every Move

  February 12, 2022

  To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android. In mid-January, my husband and I were having an argument. Our 1-year-old… more ›

• Raph Koster’s real talk about a real metaverse

  February 6, 2022

  Did you miss a session from the Future of Work Summit? Head over to our Future of Work Summit on-demand library to stream. Not many people can say “been there,… more ›

• The end of the metaverse hopefully

  February 5, 2022

  Meta, the company that owns Facebook, had a pretty bad day yesterday. The company, on an earnings call, reported that it had lost users for the first time in its… more ›

• Academics want to preserve video games. The game industry is fighting them in court.

  January 18, 2022

  Research libraries preserve classic texts, films and recordings, but when it comes to video games, it gets complicated. https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/2022/01/12/video-game-preservation-emulation/ more ›

• Apple at $3tn: the enigma of Tim Cook

  January 8, 2022

  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. Check if… more ›