I Know Where Your Cat Lives
If you have posted a picture of your cat online, data analyst and artist Owen Mundy, and now, the rest of the world, knows where it lives. And, by that logic, he knows where you live, too.
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So, what did Watch Dogs actually have to say about surveillance culture?
With time, Watch Dogs proves to not criticize the mentality of those who have access to our data, but to enable, encourage, and reward that mentality. Information stops being an insightful, humanizing privilege, but something to be exploited. Your ungoverned access to people’s privacy—phones, laptops—and city infrastructure is not presented as a responsibility, but an opportunity.
The real 10 algorithms that dominate our world
The other day, while I was navigating Reddit I found an interesting post that was called The 10 Algorithms That Dominate Our World by the author George Dvorsky which was trying to explain the importance that algorithms have in our world today and which ones are the most important for our civilization.
Predicting A Future Free Of Dollar Bills | TechCrunch
Picture the scene. It’s 2020. You’re at the checkout in a convenience store with a carton of milk. But you’ve got no cash and you’ve left your cards..
Seeing More Politics in Your News Feed? Facebook Boosts Partisan Sites
Media sites with political bents have been some of the biggest winners of the Facebook publisher bump, drawing huge increases in comments and shares.
Google Earnings Preview: Revenue Growth From Mobile To Buoy Results
Google is set to release its Q2 2014 earnings on Thursday, July 17. In Q1, the company posted that its revenues grew by over 19% year over year. The result failed to enthuse the market which was expecting far better growth in both the top line and the bottom line. The primary reason for this was a decline in cost per click, which has been in a long-term decline for the past two years. However, this decline was offset to some extent by the adoption of its enhanced campaigns program that combines marketing campaigns across mobile desktop and laptops, i.e. across screens of different sizes.
The vile threats of sex and violence that men use against women online
Police who are accustomed to men threatening women in person with guns and knives have a harder time figuring out what to do about online threats, wrote Hess. Time reporter Catherine Mayer, who got an online bomb threat, was told by police to just stay offline — hardly plausible for a professional whose work requires an online presence.
When cellphones and social media become the enemy
There’s a moment in “Boyhood,” the new movie by Richard Linklater, when the boy in question, an eighth-grader, asks his mother for permission to attend a party that won’t have adult supervision. Reluctantly, she agrees, saying it’s OK as long as he takes his cellphone.
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