Tag: software studies

• Personal Genomics: Where Are We, Really?

  January 12, 2020

  By Andreessen Horowitz This is a turn of the decade (and January-themed) look backward/ look forward into personal genomics, given recent and past retrospective and prospective pieces in the media… more ›

• Spotify is a Prison for Podcasts

  January 11, 2020

  I have been a happy customer of Spotify for several years now, after flirting back and forth with Apple Music, Google Play Music and the late Rdio for several years… more ›

• Fat Protocols

  January 9, 2020

  Here’s one way to think about the differences between the Internet and the Blockchain. The previous generation of shared protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP, SMTP, etc. https://www.usv.com/writing/2016/08/fat-protocols/ more ›

• From Prenda to Snowden to SpaceX: Tech trends that shaped the 2010s

  January 1, 2020

  It’s been quite a decade. Tech surfed into the 2010s upon a huge wave of optimism and connection (Facebook!) but eventually wiped out on the shoals of cynicism and tribalism… more ›

• Why the 2010s were the Facebook Decade

  December 31, 2019

  By the end of 2009, Facebook—under the control of its then 25-year-old CEO, Mark Zuckerberg—was clearly on the rise. It more than doubled its subscriber base during the year, from… more ›

• Fortnite Is the Future, but Probably Not for the Reasons You Think

  December 29, 2019

  In 2018, there was a lot to read about Fortnite, and even more to learn from it. And to point, “the game” is indeed the future of entertainment (as well as the greatest… more ›

• How Your Phone Betrays Democracy

  December 25, 2019

  In footage from drones hovering above, the nighttime streets of Hong Kong look almost incandescent, a constellation of tens of thousands of cellphone flashlights, swaying in unison. Each twinkle is… more ›

• Facebook Discovers Fakes That Show Evolution of Disinformation

  December 22, 2019

  Researchers said the profiles, linked to the Epoch Media Group, used photos generated by artificial intelligence in a preview of an “eerie, tech-enabled future of disinformation. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/20/business/facebook-ai-generated-profiles.html more ›

• Removing Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior From Georgia, Vietnam and the US

  December 22, 2019

  Today, we removed two unconnected networks of accounts, Pages and Groups for engaging in foreign and government interference — which is coordinated inauthentic behavior on behalf of a government or… more ›

• Testifying at the Senate about A.I.‑Selected Content on the Internet—Stephen Wolfram Writings

  December 15, 2019

  Three and a half weeks ago I got an email asking me if I’d testify at a hearing of the US Senate Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, Innovation and… more ›