Basic Income Why is everyone talking about Universal Basic Income?Wired UK - Will Bedingfield In 1516, the English scholar Thomas More published Utopia, a political satire depicting an island where conditions were as they “should be”. In it, he …
Why people keep falling for viral hoaxesArs Technica - Paris Martineau, Wired.com How did this latest Instagram hoax spread? Simple: Our dumb brains. The Internet is dark and full of terrible sources of information. Sometimes it …
Hong Kong Hong Kong protestors are attacking smart lamppostsQuartz - Ephrat LivniProtests in Hong Kong have been going on for 12 weeks. Today, a brief peaceful spell in the ongoing saga was broken. Protestors took to the streets again for what began as a nonviolent demonstration but
Play buttonMobile Technology Don’t be an idiot — here’s how to store and remember all your passwordsTNW - Cara CurtisWelcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. If you, like millions of other people, use the same password for
Lifestyle (UK) My life became immeasurably better when I stopped keeping my phone by my bedThe Guardian - Jack SommersI did not see the link between bingeing on horror and not sleeping When I was a kid, I thought that monsters came out of the dark. Turns out, they actually come out of the light. Like you, I run my life
TDI Cheating Volkswagen Diesels Have Become A Hot CommodityJalopnik - David Tracy After Volkswagen admitted to cheating on the emissions tests of hundreds of thousands of cars back in 2015, the company was forced to buy back the …
Play button3D Bioprinting Scientists bioprint living tissue in a matter of secondsEngadget - Jon FingasIt could lead to a new generation of personalized artificial organs. Bioprinting holds great potential for repairing injuries, testing drugs or replacing whole organs, but it's currently limited in complexity,
Liberal View Scientists Have Been Underestimating the Pace of Climate Changescientificamerican.com - Naomi Oreskes, Michael Oppenheimer, Dale Jamieson Recently, the U.K. Met Office announced a revision to the Hadley Center historical analysis of sea surface temperatures (SST), suggesting that the …
Smart Homes Alexa turns invisible in new iDevices light switchCNET - by Ry Crist Would you pay $100 to put Alexa into your walls?
Donald Tusk EU chief Tusk says will 'respond in kind' if US imposes tariffs on France over digital taxCNBC - Spriha Srivastava and Elizabeth Schulze The European Union will "respond in kind" if the U.S. imposes tariffs on France over digital tax plan, Donald Tusk, president of the European Council …
Electricity We know how to build an all-renewable electric gridFast Company - Morgan ClendanielThe main solution to climate change is well known: stop burning fossil fuels. How to do this is more complicated, but as a scholar who does energy modeling, I and others see the outlines of a post-fossil-fuel
Cambridge Analytica Facebook learned about Cambridge Analytica as early as September 2015, new documents showCNBC - Lauren Feiner Newly released documents suggest that Facebook was aware that Cambridge Analytica may have been gathering user profile data three months before a …
Play buttonWaymo Waymo cars refuse to drive in unsafe conditionsVentureBeat - Kyle WiggersHeavy rain and blizzards aren’t the only forms of severe weather Waymo’s self-driving vehicles encounter on the regular. In a blog post published this morning, the Alphabet subsidiary laid out the ways
YouTube Kids YouTube says it will now remove ‘violent’ and ‘mature’ videos pretending to be kid-friendlyThe Verge - Nick StattEarlier this week, YouTube quietly announced a policy change to its treatment of videos targeted toward minors and young children. The video platform says it will now remove all content that contains or
Technology Facebook’s Libra backers look to distance themselves from projectFinancial Times - Hannah MurphyIntensifying regulatory scrutiny of Facebook's Libra digital currency has spooked some of the project's early backers, with at least three privately discussing how to distance themselves from the venture.
Google Photos Google Photos can now search for text that appears in images9to5Google - Abner LiGoogle Lens has a powerful optical character recognition (OCR) filter that can pull text from any image. Available in Google Photos, the backup service this month is adding the ability to search for text
Instagram Instagram says growth hackers are behind spate of fake Stories views – TechCrunchTechCrunch - Natasha LomasIf you use Instagram and have noticed a bunch of strangers watching your Stories in recent months — accounts that don’t follow you and seem to be Russian — well, you’re not alone. Nor are you being primed
Apple Watch If medical wearables want to save lives, they should be ‘invisible’TNW - Marc FischerOne of the latest updates to the Apple Watch included FDA-approved ECG monitoring, and it made waves in both the consumer and medical communities. Many people thought this was impossible. Some were worried
Driving China is hoping slow but steady wins the self-driving car raceQuartz - Echo HuangOver the past two years, China has been setting the stage for a revolution in autonomous driving. Just don’t expect that revolution to come quickly. In the United States, individual states are taking lead
Bernie Sanders Bernie Sanders’ Green New Deal is the most progressive in the raceThe Verge - Justine CalmaBernie Sanders just dropped his version of what a Green New Deal would look like if he becomes president — and it looks incredibly ambitious. The proposed set of federal policies aims to simultaneously
Gear & Gadgets 55% of mobile phone users plan to keep their devices for 3-5 yearsTNW - Bryan ClarkA new study shows confirms the worst fears of mobile phone manufacturers like Apple and Samsung. According to responses from 3,640 mobile phone users shows that more than half of them plan to keep their
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoElectric Bikes Electric Dump Truck Produces More Energy Than it Useshackaday.com - Bryan Cockfield Electric vehicles are everywhere now. It’s more than just Leafs, Teslas, and a wide variety of electric bikes. It’s also trains, busses, and in this …
Facial Recognition EU plans sweeping regulation of facial recognitionFinancial Times - Mehreen KhanBrussels is exploring ways to impose strict limits on the use of facial recognition technology in an attempt to stamp out creeping public surveillance of European citizens. The European Commission is regulation
Technology Google shutters more than 200 YouTube channels amid Hong Kong protestsCNBC - Jennifer Elias Google axed 210 YouTube channels after it found they had been tied to misinformation about Hong Kong protesters, the company announced Thursday. This …
Instagram Facing Pressure From Facebook, Is Testing Back-To-Back Ads In Stories (Report) - Tubefiltertubefilter.com - By James Loke Hale Beginning this week, the platform is running a test with what it told AdWeek is a “small percentage” of users. When those users are scrolling through …
Technology Policy How New A.I. Is Making the Law’s Definition of Hacking Obsoletemedium.com - Ryan Calo Imagine you’re cruising in your new Tesla, autopilot engaged. Suddenly you feel yourself veer into the other lane, and you grab the wheel just in …
Employment The threat of Russian interference in 2020Axios - Steve LeVine Americans are at each other's throats. Politically, socially and culturally, we suspect each other's motives and plain sanity. So certain are we of …
Auto Rickshaws Inside India’s Messy Electric Vehicle RevolutionThe New York TimesElectric rickshaw drivers must fight for space with buses and other vehicles outside Delhi metro stations. Electric rickshaw drivers must fight for space with buses and other vehicles outside Delhi metro
Emmanuel Macron France sticks to its unilateral ‘Google tax’ — even though Trump is pissedTNW - Már Másson MaackFrench President, Emmanuel Macron, has started turning up the heat before this weekend’s G7 summit. At a press meeting yesterday, Macron stuck to France’s policy of upping taxes on big tech, calling the
