[ad_1] Daniel Tawfik Contributor Often when I attend a conference or a networking event I am surprised by how many people operate at the periphery of the tech industry. Social media gurus, SEO “ninjas,” bloggers, etc. It’s a coterie of tech “club promoters.” The hype men of...
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[ad_1] In a sickening concession to bad copyright law and Microsoft’s bottom line over basic technical truths and common sense, Eric Lundgren will spend 15 months in prison for selling discs that let people reinstall Windows on licensed machines. A federal appeals court this...
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[ad_1] Scene from Gong Shou Dao, a movie starring Jack Ma. / GIF by Tech in Asia Recently, Chinese President Xi Jinping announced that the country’s internet, already one of the world’s most tightly controlled, will likely become even more so. “China must strengthen its grip...
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[ad_1] Americans are concerned they have no control over their data—and they should be.WIRED OPINIONABOUTDavid N. Cicilline (@davidcicilline) represents Rhode Island in the US House of Representatives and is the top Democrat on the House Judiciary’s Antitrust Subcommittee. Terrell McSweeny (@TMcSweenyFTC) is an outgoing Democratic...
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[ad_1] You’d think everybody would want to fly. It’s been a universal human dream since the first cave person saw the first pterodactyl¹. You’d think better technology, greater demand, economic growth, and population growth would mean more and more pilots. But the surprising, counterintuitive fact...
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[ad_1] In February, the ACLU of Massachusetts released a damning report detailing prejudice in social media surveillance efforts by the Boston Police Department (BPD). The report revealed that between 2014 and 2016, the BPD had tracked keywords on Facebook and Twitter in an effort to...
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[ad_1] Western airstrikes on the Middle East: déjà vu all over again. Twenty years ago, the USA attacked Sudan and Afghanistan with Tomahawk cruise missiles. Two days ago, the USA attacked Syria with … Tomahawk cruise missiles. Aside from the (de)merits of each attack, isn’t...
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[ad_1] There is a lot of junk floating out in space, and it’s a problem we’ve been talking about, in fits and spurts, since the 1960s.WIRED OPINIONABOUTAmy Webb (@amywebb) is a professor at the NYU Stern School of Business and is the chief executive of...
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[ad_1] You may not be aware that the rough consensus in the tech community is that Cambridge Analytica were almost certainly bullshit artists. Oh, don’t get me wrong, what they tried to do, and/or claimed to do, was super shady and amoral and would have...
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[ad_1] In the wake of the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica debacle, we’re hearing a lot of new and interesting ideas about how to solve the so-called Facebook problem: Let’s classify Facebook as a monopoly and break it up. Let’s declare it a public utility and regulate it...
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