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• Umm Kulthum

  June 27, 2020

  Jump to navigation Jump to search This article is about the Egyptian singer. For other uses, see Umm Kulthum (name). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umm_Kulthum more ›

• [Letter from Kashmir] Valley of Unrest, by Sonia Faleiro | Harper’s Magazine

  June 27, 2020

  Baramulla, a city on the Jhelum River, thirty miles northwest of Srinagar, Kashmir. All photographs from Kashmir, August 2019 © Abid Bhat. Bhat’s work was supported by the Pulitzer Center… more ›

• The Decline of the American World

  June 27, 2020

  Other countries are used to loathing America, admiring America, and fearing America (sometimes all at once). But pitying America? That one is new. “He hated America very deeply,” John le… more ›

• The push to redefine “good design” amid the Black Lives Matter movement

  June 27, 2020

  Looking at Big Tech as the next Big Oil. In 2015, Nextdoor, the location-based social networking app, gained a reputation as a locus of racial profiling. Users were sending alerts… more ›

• Good Questions, Real Answers: How Does Facebook Use Machine Learning to Deliver Ads?

  June 24, 2020

  Machine learning is a system that learns as it receives new data, without being explicitly programmed, to carry out complex tasks quickly and efficiently. Facebook uses machine learning to generate… more ›

• Google Founder Sergey Brin Has a Secret Disaster Relief Squad

  June 22, 2020

  When Hurricane Dorian hit the Bahamas last September, the small island of Abaco was among the hardest hit. Dorian stalled over the island for two days, unleashing some of the… more ›

• From HAL 9000 to Westworld’s Dolores: the pop culture robots that influenced smart voice assistants

  June 22, 2020

  Last year, nearly one third of Australian adults owned a smart speaker device allowing them to call on “Alexa” or “Siri”. Now, with more time spent indoors due to COVID-19,… more ›

• How the UK’s “fund of funds” influences investment financing in Africa with a long view

  June 21, 2020

  Major international banks and private equity (PE) houses have been reducing their exposure to Africa in the past few years, but, thankfully for the continent’s startups, not everyone is retreating.… more ›

• Twitch’s Streaming Boom Is Jolting the Music Industry

  June 21, 2020

  On the morning of May 27, Kenneth Charles Blume III wanted to talk about white privilege. Blume, a 29-year-old DJ from Greenwich, Connecticut, has produced beats for some of the biggest… more ›

• TikTok Finally Explains How the ‘For You’ Algorithm Works

  June 21, 2020

  The first thing you see when you open TikTok is the platform’s For You page: an endless stream of videos uniquely tailored to each user. https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-finally-explains-for-you-algorithm-works/ more ›