Enrique DansPrivacy Why WhatsApp Will Never Be Securetelegra.ph The world seems to be shocked by the news that WhatsApp turned any phone into spyware. Everything on your phone – including photos, emails and texts …
Enrique DansDonald Trump Trump hosted Zuckerberg for undisclosed dinner at the White House in OctoberNBC News - By Dylan ByersThe meeting took place during Zuckerberg’s most recent visit to Washington, where he testified before Congress about Facebook’s new cryptocurrency Libra. President Donald Trump hosted a previously undisclosed
Enrique DansTechnology Predicting people's driving personalitiesmit.edu - Adam Conner-Simons Self-driving cars are coming. But for all their fancy sensors and intricate data-crunching abilities, even the most cutting-edge cars lack something …
Enrique DansFacebook Before Mark Zuckerberg Tried To Kill TikTok, He Wanted To Own Itbuzzfeednews.com - Ryan Mac Three years ago, Mark Zuckerberg considered buying the Chinese company that became the basis of TikTok. Now he's demonizing it to make the case …
Enrique DansFacebook Facebook’s fake numbers problem — Lex in depthFinancial Times - Elaine Moore, Hannah MurphyAt first glance, Amy Dowd’s Facebook account appears perfectly normal. There is a smiling profile picture of a young woman surrounded by autumnal leaves and the date that she began a new job at Southeast
Enrique DansTechnology Snapchat fact-checks political ads, unlike Facebook, says CEO Evan SpiegelCNBC - William Feuer As pressure mounts on Big Tech companies to address the spread of misinformation, Snap CEO Evan Spiegel said Monday that his company fact-checks all …
Enrique DansNeuralink Elon Musk said his AI-brain-chips company could 'solve' autism and schizophrenia - Business InsiderBusiness Insider - Isobel Asher HamiltonElon Musk said he thinks his neural-technology company, Neuralink, will be able to "solve" schizophrenia and autism. On the latest "Artificial Intelligence" podcast with Lex Fridman, published Tuesday,
Enrique DansMark Zuckerberg Facebook and the “Free Speech” ExcuseThe New Yorker - Andrew MarantzFor the first decade or so of his career, which also happened to be the first decade or so of his adult life, Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and C.E.O. of Facebook, was able to move fast and break things—the
Enrique DansTechnology Iran shuts down country’s internet in the wake of fuel protestsTechCrunch - Ingrid LundenIran, one of the countries most strongly identified with the rise cyber terrorism and malicious hacking, appears now to be using an iron fist to turn on its own. The country has reportedly shut down nearly
Enrique DansCarbon Planes Are Ruining the Planet. New, Mighty Airships Won’t.Medium - Starre Julia Vartan Some scientists are serious about resurrecting zeppelins for low-carbon travel This August, Greta Thunberg sailed across the Atlantic in a …
Enrique DansTechnology Ghost ships, crop circles, and soft gold: A GPS mystery in ShanghaiMIT Technology Review - Mark Harris A sophisticated new electronic warfare system is being used at the world’s busiest port. But is it sand thieves or the Chinese state behind it? On a …
Enrique DansChina China is much stronger on climate action than western media assertsMedium - Michael Barnard From renewables to reforestation to electrification China is outstripping the world A friend and on-and-off collaborator on IPOs and technical …
Enrique DansClimate The Glimmer of a Climate New World OrderMedium - New York Magazine Until now, the nations of the world have never punished bad behavior on climate change I didn’t know politics could move this fast. It has been barely …
Enrique DansU.S. Politics How America EndsThe Atlantic - Yoni AppelbaumA tectonic demographic shift is under way. Can the country hold together? Democracy depends on the consent of the losers. For most of the 20th century, parties and candidates in the United States have
Enrique DansTechnology Google to offer checking accounts in partnership with banks starting next yearTechCrunch - Darrell EtheringtonGoogle is the latest big tech company to make a move into banking and personal financial services: The company is gearing up to offer checking accounts to consumers, as first reported by The Wall Street
Enrique DansOpinion I'm the Google whistleblower. The medical data of millions of Americans is at riskThe Guardian - AnonymousI didn’t decide to blow the whistle on Google’s deal, known internally as the Nightingale Project, glibly. The decision came to me slowly, creeping on me through my day-to-day work as one of about 250
Enrique DansDisney+ Disney + and ‘The Mandalorian’ Are Driving People Back to TorrentingVICE - Lauren TheisenTV is exhausting now. Where once the future of streaming promised to cut down bloated cable bills and create a more efficient customer-provider service—“Imagine a future where you only pay for the 10 you
Enrique DansJewellery Design Ring Camera Surveillance Is Transforming Suburban LifeWIRED - Louise Matsakis Consumer surveillance cameras are everywhere now, and they’re capturing moments we otherwise would never have known happened. Across the US, consumers …
Enrique DansAutomotive Industry Elon Musk’s German Factory Started With Love Letter From BerlinBloomberg - Stefan Nicola When Elon Musk tweeted last year that Germany was a front-runner for Tesla Inc.’s first European car factory, it sent politicians into a frenzy to …
Enrique DansBanking Next in Google’s Quest for Consumer Dominance—BankingThe Wall Street Journal. - Peter RudegeairSearch giant plans to partner with banks to offer checking accounts Google will soon offer checking accounts to consumers, becoming the latest Silicon Valley heavyweight to push into finance. The project,
Enrique DansTechnology Facebook caught actively using iPhone cameras while users scroll feedsTNW - MixiPhone owners, beware. It appears Facebook might be actively using your camera without your knowledge while you’re scrolling your feed. The issue has come to light after a user going by the name Joshua
Enrique DansTechnology Europe Is Toughest on Big Tech, Yet Big Tech Still ReignsThe New York Times - Adam SatarianoLONDON — Richard Stables should have felt vindicated when the European Union announced a $2.7 billion fine in 2017 against Google for breaking antitrust laws. He had raised alarms about the search giant’s
Enrique DansScience AI Researchers Hate The “Terminator” Movies With a Passionfuturism.com - Kristin Houser There’s a new “Terminator” movie coming out — and artificial intelligence researchers really hope you don’t see it. The issue lies in the films’ …
Enrique DansOpinion Waymo Says More Of Its Self-Driving Cars Operating ‘Rider Only’ With No One At WheelForbes - Alan OhnsmanAlphabet Inc.’s self-driving car service Waymo has increased the frequency of “rider-only” service for customers in its public pilot program in suburban Phoenix since August and aims to make that the as
Enrique DansGreen Technology MIT engineers develop a new way to remove carbon dioxide from airmit.edu - David Chandler A new way of removing carbon dioxide from a stream of air could provide a significant tool in the battle against climate change. The new system can …
Enrique DansThe Future These U.N. Climate Scientists Think They Can Halt Global Warming for $300 Billion. Here's HowTIME - Adam Majendie and Pratik Parija / Bloomberg$300 billion. That’s the money needed to stop the rise in greenhouse gases and buy up to 20 years of time to fix global warming, according to United Nations climate scientists. It’s the gross domestic
Enrique DansU.S. Politics Why It Feels Like Everything Is Going HaywireThe Atlantic - Jonathan HaidtSuppose that the biblical story of Creation were true: God created the universe in six days, including all the laws of physics and all the physical constants that apply throughout the universe. Now imagine
Enrique DansDigital Health Google Is Slurping Up Health Data—and It Looks Totally LegalWIRED - Gregory Barber Tech giants can access all of your personal medical details under existing health privacy laws. The question is how else that data might get …
Enrique DansLong-form Journalism History as a giant data set: how analysing the past could help save the futureThe Guardian - Laura SpinneyIn its first issue of 2010, the scientific journal Nature looked forward to a dazzling decade of progress. By 2020, experimental devices connected to the internet would deduce our search queries by directly
