Tag: software studies

• SoftBank Bet Big on Disruptive Companies. Many Have Not Paid Off.

  September 27, 2019

  Anyone who has taken an Uber, sent a Slack message or enjoyed a free beer at a WeWork owes a little something to Masayoshi Son. Through his Japanese conglomerate SoftBank… more ›

• Revealed: how TikTok censors videos that do not please Beijing

  September 25, 2019

  TikTok, the popular Chinese-owned social network, instructs its moderators to censor videos that mention Tiananmen Square, Tibetan independence, or the banned religious group Falun Gong, according to leaked documents detailing… more ›

• 100,000 FACES GENERATED BY AI FREE FOR ANY USE

  September 21, 2019

  We are building the next generation of media through the power of AI. Copyrights, distribution rights, and infringement claims will soon be things of the past. https://generated.photos/ more ›

• Battery icons shape perceptions of time and space and define user identities

  September 17, 2019

  New research from Cass Business School has found that battery icons on mobile phones shape how people view time and space, and how battery conservation practices define user identities. https://phys.org/news/2019-09-battery-icons-perceptions-space-user.html more ›

• Cos’è il nuovo chip Apple U1 e perché è importante?

  September 14, 2019

  https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-new-Apple-U1-chip-and-why-is-it-important more ›

• Neuralink & Brain Interfaces, TikTok, FaceApp, iHeartRadio

  September 11, 2019

  By a16z Introducing our new podcast, 16 Minutes, a short news podcast where we cover the top headlines of the week, the a16z podcast way — why are these topics… more ›

• And for His Next Act, Ev Williams Will Fix the Internet

  September 9, 2019

  For years, Ev Williams was saddled with doubts. As a co-founder of Blogger and Twitter and, more recently, as the chief executive of the digital publishing platform Medium, Mr. Williams… more ›

• Emergences

  September 5, 2019

  My perspective is closest to . I liked his introducing himself as being interested in intelligence in the wild. I will copy George in that. That is what I’m interested in,… more ›

• How TikTok Is Rewriting the World

  August 30, 2019

  TikTok will change the way your social media works — even if you’re avoiding it. Hello, person who is, statistically speaking, a human adult aged approximately “millennial” to “boomer. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/10/style/what-is-tik-tok.html more ›

• Why I Printed My Facebook

  August 24, 2019

  In my attic lies a big box of scrapbooks and diaries chronicling my preteen through early college years, from the mid-1990s to early 2000s, in minute and sometimes cringe-inducing detail.… more ›