Tag: software

• How To Create UX Personas

  August 18, 2019

  A persona is a representation of a type of customer. Personas answer the question, “Who are we designing for?” and they help to align strategy and goals to specific user… more ›

• These are the shady tricks shopping sites use to get your money and info

  August 17, 2019

  Shopping websites have ways of getting you to do what they want, and the sneakiest design and interface tricks they use are known as “dark patterns. https://qz.com/1657890/this-is-how-shopping-sites-trick-you-for-money-and-info/ more ›

• Huawei Technicians Helped African Governments Spy on Political Opponents

  August 17, 2019

  Employees embedded with cybersecurity forces in Uganda and Zambia intercepted encrypted communications and used cell data to track opponents, according to a Wall Street Journal investigation https://www.wsj.com/articles/huawei-technicians-helped-african-governments-spy-on-political-opponents-11565793017 more ›

• TikTok is fuelling India’s deadly hate speech epidemic

  August 17, 2019

  At 8:00pm on February 22, 2019, 28-year-old Venkataraman walked into a south Indian police station and confessed to strangling his friend Vijay to death with a scarf. But police in… more ›

• Major corporations blacklist ads on news stories that include the words “Trump,” “racism,” “gun,” “Brexit,” “suicide” and more

  August 17, 2019

  The Wall Street Journal investigates major corporations’ ad buyers’ practice of blacklisting of ads on news stories that deal with the world’s most urgent issues, including any news story that… more ›

• The Visually Impaired Developers Making Games in the Dark

  August 9, 2019

  ZHEJIANG, East China — By day, 24-year-old Hu Liangmin, like many of his vision-deprived compatriots, is a massage therapist. But by night, he uses his hands for a different trade… more ›

• Machines Gone Wrong

  August 4, 2019

  Often, when we first fall in love, the person of our affection seems to be perfect. But the happy honeymoon is cut short when we realize they are not that… more ›

• How deepfake porn bans will impact cloud compute providers

  August 4, 2019

  Multiple states have started to take on the legislative battle against deepfake pornography. In Virginia, a law against revenge pornography just got amended to include deepfaked revenge pornography. https://medium.com/@denisemelchin/how-deepfake-porn-bans-will-impact-cloud-compute-providers-eb23eab431b4 more ›

• The Invention of Money

  August 4, 2019

  When the Venetian merchant Marco Polo got to China, in the latter part of the thirteenth century, he saw many wonders—gunpowder and coal and eyeglasses and porcelain. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/08/05/the-invention-of-money more ›

• Was the Automotive Era a Terrible Mistake?

  August 4, 2019

  The summer I was eighteen, I visited a parking lot forty-five minutes north of town and got behind the wheel for what I hoped would be the first real rite… more ›