Tag: stories
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It was Confucius who extolled the “rectification of names.” “If names be not correct,” he said, “language is not in accordance with the truth of things. https://qz.com/1772558/what-do-we-call-hong-kongs-2019-protests-in-2020/ more ›
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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 ›
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Every minute of every day, everywhere on the planet, dozens of companies — largely unregulated, little scrutinized — are logging the movements of tens of millions of people with mobile… more ›
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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 ›
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Logic is a foundation for many things. But what are the foundations of logic itself? In symbolic logic, one introduces symbols like p and q to stand for statements (or… more ›
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Software start-ups have a phrase for what Amazon is doing to them: ‘strip-mining’ them of their innovations. SEATTLE — Elastic, a software start-up in Amsterdam, was rapidly building its business… more ›
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https://www.nytimes.com/video/technology/100000006082083/lethal-autonomous-weapons.html more ›
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After a decade or so of the general sentiment being in favor of the internet and social media as a way to enable more speech and improve the marketplace of… more ›
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Right now, we’re at a tipping point between two concepts that shape how we experience the world—the schedule and the stream. The first has lasted over a century, and the… more ›
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“Employment: Yarkant County satellite factory [for] persons in detention or reeducation. https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/12/11/cotton-china-uighur-labor-xinjiang-new-slavery/ more ›