Tag: stories
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Directions and local street names, previously mispronounced by a default American or British accent, were now offered in a familiar accent with a new “Nigerian English” option. Novel as it… more ›
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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 ›
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During the second world war intelligence officers from Britain and the US would crouch over bulky radio transmitters listening in on crackling enemy exchanges. In the years since then, communications… more ›
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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 ›
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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 ›
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Biology is the new tech. https://airmail.news/issues/2019-7-27/should-the-rich-be-allowed-to-buy-the-best-genes more ›
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The densely populated community of Bukom in Ghana’s capital is inhabited by fishermen. But fishing is not Bukom’s only export. The local gym is also cultivating some of Africa’s finest… more ›
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In recent weeks, Facebook has created a new digital currency and the price of Bitcoin has fluctuated wildly. Has money itself always been an illusion? https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2019/07/bitcoin-and-money-myth more ›
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Money from big tech companies and top VC firms is flowing into the nascent “virtual beings” space. https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/29/a-guide-to-virtual-beings/ more ›
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For two years we knew of the possibility that the Donald Trump campaign cheated in the 2016 election. https://nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/on-the-mueller-report-vol-1/ more ›