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Automation is reaching more companies
Just Eat outsources 6,000 of its riders and drivers working across six UK cities to Dutch staffing agency Randstad, to comply with stricter UK employment rules
Despite high hopes, AI in health care hasn't been effective because medical data is more complex and scarce than web data, resulting in misleading results
A Grand Unified Theory of Buying Stuff
Game Studios Are Turning Play into Work
Pixel art video games have experienced a renaissance over the past decade, led by indie developers, countering an industry obsessed with horsepower and realism
An economist details working in VR using an Oculus headset: few distractions and little motion sickness, but typing is hard and forehead gets numb
Signal quietly made its MobileCoin-based cryptocurrency payments feature available to all users globally in November 2021, after a test in the UK
Crime Prediction Keeps Society Stuck in the Past | WIRED
In the fall, John Deere will start selling its fully autonomous 8R tractor, which can gather data about the soil to improve its algorithms as it operates
The Metaverse Land Rush Is an Illusion | WIRED
The Quest to Trap Carbon in Stone–and Beat Climate Change
A critique of much-hyped crypto-based virtual real estate projects, such as Decentraland, which are often buggy, empty, and lack moderation tools
The Kid Surveillance Complex Locks Parents in a Trap | WIRED
See Little Robots Get Swole in This Virtual 'Gym'
Behind the rise of "alt-jihadists" on social media and how they have adopted alt-right's organizational tactics and imagery to fuel their growing movement
Before implementing e2ee, Meta must improve its existing content-oblivious harm-reduction mechanisms, limit recommendation engines and discoverability, and more
AI researcher Timnit Gebru, who left Google last year, launches Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research, focusing on the responsible use of AI
Q&A with Frances Haugen on becoming a whistleblower, leaving Facebook after moving to Puerto Rico due to health, Meta, plans to run simulated social networks
A look at efforts to develop brain-computer interfaces, including Musk's Neuralink and a DARPA program to build a 64,000-electrode array for brain implants
Amazon's Dark Secret: It Has Failed to Protect Your Data
Pinboard · 2 months ago
Alphabet X's Everyday Robots says it now has a fleet of 100+ robot prototypes that are autonomously performing tasks like wiping tables around its offices
Internal docs and sources detail Amazon's careless handling of its retail customer data, including letting some low-level staff snoop on celebrity purchases
Techmeme · 2 months ago
How investigators like "Gabagool" are using open source tech to identify, track down, and expose foul play and questionable practices in DeFi
‘AR Is Where the Real Metaverse Is Going to Happen’ | WIRED
A Black Woman Invented Home Security. Why Did It Go So Wrong? | WIRED
Why Zillow Couldn’t Make Algorithmic House Pricing Work
Profile of CryptoPunks, an NFT project founded by two Canadian developers in 2017, which has reached $1.5B in lifetime sales as NFTs explode in popularity
Consumer advocates say buy now, pay later services like Afterpay and Affirm can be especially confusing for younger users and make it easy to get overextended
Blind People Won the Right to Break eBook DRM. Time to Make It Permanent
The FBI and DHS say a drone dangling copper wires tried to disrupt a PA power substation in July 2020, the first drone attack targeting US energy infrastructure
A look at the fight between city officials and parents over Stockholm's glitchy app for its schools, as annoyed parents built their own open source version
How payment processors hold the power to decide which products and services can be purchased online, as Stripe bans businesses like tarot card reading
Stephen Wolfram: The Personal Analytics of My Life
Advocates for the blind say DMCA exemptions to break ebook DRM for accessibility should be permanent, rather than having to be renewed every three years
Sci-Fi Icon Neal Stephenson Finally Takes on Global Warming
Leaked docs offer a blueprint for solving Facebook's problems: improve products by deprioritizing engagement, reduce AI reliance, focus on developing countries
Internal docs reveal farewell posts by some Facebook employees detail disappointment and dissatisfaction with a company unwilling or unable to change
Crunchbase: startups with only female founders raised 2.3% of VC funding in 2021, the lowest in five years; 86% went to startups with only male founders
Laptops that US schools issued to students for remote learning are likely to have monitoring software, disproportionately affecting low-income students and PoC
Information regarding the Facebook outage.
Reddit · 4 months ago