Tag: tech

• At I/O, Google showed its willingness to change…

  May 9, 2018

  At I/O, Google showed its willingness to change and shape our lives » Every company in Silicon Valley will tell you, with operatic grandeur, that it aims to change the… more ›

• Co-Parenting With Alexa

  May 1, 2018

  Co-Parenting With Alexa » “You are going to have a chance to play with Alexa,” I told my daughter, Grace, who’s 3 years old. Pointing at the black cylindrical device,… more ›

• Music streaming revenues overtake CDs to hit…

  April 24, 2018

  Music streaming revenues overtake CDs to hit $6.6bn globally » Streaming music revenues surpassed income from the sale of traditional music formats for the first time last year, as the… more ›

• Marissa Mayer Is Still Here

  April 23, 2018

  Marissa Mayer Is Still Here » Marissa Mayer was celebrated as a savior when she left Google to become chief executive of Yahoo in 2012. A brilliant computer scientist, Ms.… more ›

• Crypto Canon

  February 13, 2018

  Crypto Canon » Here’s a list — building on and including Chris’ last roundup — of crypto readings and resources. more ›

• How Amazon’s Ad Business Could Threaten Google and…

  January 30, 2018

  How Amazon’s Ad Business Could Threaten Google and Facebook » It’s easy to see how Amazon.com Inc. AMZN 1.11% threatens the world’s retailers. more ›

• Quartz’s list of 30 African innovators

  January 21, 2018

  Quartz’s list of 30 African innovators » When we launched Quartz Africa in June, we very purposely focused on telling Africa’s stories through a lens of innovation. more ›

• State of the World 2018: Bruce Sterling and Jon…

  January 6, 2018

  State of the World 2018: Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky » 2017 was a nervous year of overwrought blustery political cultures, a year of normalized psychosis amplified by media distortion,… more ›

• Where do you stand, wireless, roaming through the…

  January 3, 2018

  Where do you stand, wireless, roaming through the undersea cable’s echo point in Dar Es Salaam? What sovereignty can be claimed over this call, and to what jurisdiction belongs this… more ›

• H A R V E S T

  January 1, 2018

  H A R V E S T » HARVEST is a work of critical engineering and computational climate art. It uses wind-energy to mine cryptocurrency, the earnings of which are used… more ›