Tag: tech

• We Mapped How the Coronavirus Is Driving New Surveillance Programs Around the World

  April 12, 2020

  an attempt to stem the tide of the coronavirus pandemic, more than 25 governments around the world have instituted temporary or indefinite efforts to single out infected individuals or maintain… more ›

• The Impact of COVID-19 on Video Gaming and Our Digital Lives

  March 31, 2020

  Economic crises, natural disasters, and other long-tail events tend to accelerate underlying trends, exacerbate balances of power, and unravel businesses, business models, and business practices that were sustained by a… more ›

• The truth behind filter bubbles: Bursting some myths

  February 2, 2020

  A filter bubble is a state of intellectual or ideological isolation that may result from algorithms feeding us information we agree with, based on our past behaviour and search history.… more ›

• BuzzFeed In 2020

  January 13, 2020

  BuzzFeed’s core strength has always been our ability to adapt and innovate as the world changes. When BuzzFeed started, smart phones didn’t exist, the social platforms were just for personal… more ›

• 7 Reasons Why Video Gaming Will Take Over

  January 12, 2020

  In October of last year, I wrote about the absurdity of the fact that Big Media content companies and distributors were spending unprecedented sums to increase their exposure to a… more ›

• State Support Helped Fuel Huawei’s Global Rise

  January 12, 2020

  Tens of billions of dollars in financial assistance from the Chinese government helped propel Huawei to the top of global telecommunications, a scale of support that dwarfed what its tech… more ›

• A constraint of the reader-revenue model emerges

  January 2, 2020

  Asking readers to pay has become the go-to answer in digital news. In 2020, I think we’ll start to discover one constraint of that model. https://www.niemanlab.org/2019/12/a-constraint-of-the-reader-revenue-model-emerges/ more ›

• From Prenda to Snowden to SpaceX: Tech trends that shaped the 2010s

  January 1, 2020

  It’s been quite a decade. Tech surfed into the 2010s upon a huge wave of optimism and connection (Facebook!) but eventually wiped out on the shoals of cynicism and tribalism… more ›

• Adversarial Interoperability

  January 1, 2020

  “Interoperability” is the act of making a new product or service work with an existing product or service: modern civilization depends on the standards and practices that allow you to… more ›

• Fortnite Is the Future, but Probably Not for the Reasons You Think

  December 29, 2019

  In 2018, there was a lot to read about Fortnite, and even more to learn from it. And to point, “the game” is indeed the future of entertainment (as well as the greatest… more ›