Tag: software studies

• How Software Is Eating the Car

  June 20, 2021

  “No other industry is undergoing as rapid technological change as the auto industry,” says Zoran Filipi, Chair of the Department of Automotive Engineering at Clemson University’s International Center for Automotive Research. “This is… more ›

• Reputation in Web3: Ships Built on the Great Flood

  June 19, 2021

  Implicit in the name ‘Web3’ is the expectation of replacement. In technology, versions are successors. When the new model comes out, we upgrade and the older one is replaced and… more ›

• Luxury’s Battle For The Metaverse

  June 3, 2021

  The creation of a metaverse — an online world that fulfills real-world desires and activities — was always inevitable. From sci-fi novels to Hollywood blockbusters, we have been well prepared… more ›

• The Next Social Graph: Splits, Supports and Attributions

  May 23, 2021

  So this new graph isn’t about who you ‘friend’ or follow, but who you attribute, who you support, and who inspires and supports you. Not as social gestures, but inscribed… more ›

• Why Messenger is Facebook’s key to the future of communication

  May 16, 2021

  The reason why messaging apps are so popular and continue to grow, and more and more people are spending more and more time on them, is just because communicating with… more ›

• Buying Myself Back

  April 27, 2021

  This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. My mother’s ex-husband, Jim (who, until I turned 8, I’d… more ›

• Exploiting vulnerabilities in Cellebrite UFED and Physical Analyzer from an app’s perspective

  April 27, 2021

  Cellebrite makes software to automate physically extracting and indexing data from mobile devices. They exist within the grey – where enterprise branding joins together with the larcenous to be called… more ›

• Building the metaverse

  April 27, 2021

  The meta-space race is on as competition to create, define and own the metaverse takes off. Billions of dollars are being fueled into building a unified and interconnected digital world,… more ›

• Stop talking about AI ethics. It’s time to talk about power.

  April 23, 2021

  Crawford does this by bringing us on a global journey, from the mines where the rare earth elements used in computer manufacturing are extracted to the Amazon fulfillment centers where… more ›

• There’s Nothing to Do Except Gamble

  April 20, 2021

  For all the ways that this particular moment in the history of markets feels strangely futuristic — computer dollars buying cyberart on the digital marketplace! — the basic dynamic at… more ›