Carolina FreireThere Are Spying Eyes Everywhere—and Now They Share a BrainWIRED - Arthur Holland MichelSecurity cameras. License plate readers. Smartphone trackers. Drones. We’re being watched 24/7. What happens when all those data streams fuse into …
Carolina FreireThe tech supremacy: Silicon Valley can no longer conceal its powerThe Spectator - Niall Ferguson‘To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle,’ George Orwell famously observed. He was talking not about everyday life but about politics, where it is ‘quite easy for the part to be greater than the whole or for two objects to be in the same place simultaneously’. The examples …
Carolina FreireThe Big Tech antitrust report has one big conclusion: Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google are anti-competitiveverified_publisherVox - Shirin GhaffaryThe report scrutinizes the ways the four biggest tech companies have amassed enormous market power. A long-awaited report from top Democratic congressional lawmakers about the dominance of the four biggest tech giants had a clear message on Tuesday: Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google engage in a …
Carolina FreireCommon law will finally apply to the InternetNieman Lab - Nieman Journalism LabFor many of us, the dawn of the commercial use of the internet in the 1990s was a time for optimism, even utopianism. Recalling the sluggish innovation of the telephone era, when AT&T as a regulated monopoly had to get government approval to offer anything beyond a rotary-dial phone, many of us …
Carolina FreireWhat Bob Dylan Selling His Music Catalog Does and Doesn't MeanRolling Stone - Simon Vozick-LevinsonThe news that Bob Dylan has sold his full publishing catalog to Universal Music Publishing Group, in a deal estimated to be worth more than $300 …
Carolina FreireThe promise of the fourth industrial revolutionMIT Technology ReviewOrganizations are using the internet of things and a constellation of smart devices to drive business change. It’s a technological shift that will …
