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https://wh0.github.io/2020/01/02/scissors.html
Unlike the real world tool it represents, the emoji’s job is to convey the idea, especially at small sizes. It doesn’t need to be able to swing or cut things. Nevertheless, let’s judge them on that irrelevant criterion.
https://medium.com/fluxx-studio-notes/52-things-i-learned-in-2019-8ee483e6c816
At least three private companies have fallen victim to ‘deep fake’ audio fraud. In each case, a computerised voice clone of the company CEO “called a senior financial officer to request an urgent money transfer.”
Some blind people can understand speech that is almost three times faster than the fastest speech sighted people can understand. They can use speech synthesisers set at at 800 words per minute (conversational speech is 120–150 wpm). Research suggests that a section of the brain that normally responds to light is re-mapped in blind people to process sound.
https://pxlnv.com/blog/garages-to-geopolitics/
any company operating worldwide must set a line that it will not cross. There cannot be limitless ethical bending to appease an audience of countries ranging from liberal democracies to ruthless authoritarian states. Otherwise, products and services will morph from tools for customers into tools for dictators
https://www.pcmag.com/news/368417/neal-stephenson-explains-his-vision-of-the-digital-afterlife
Neal Stephenson’s new book, Fall; or, Dodge in Hell, is out June 4, and we spoke to him about this sprawling sci-fi epic, the digital afterlife, and why social media is a doomsday machine.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/04/googles-constant-product-shutdowns-are-damaging-its-brand/
in 2019, a Google-branded product, feature, or service has died, on average, about every nine days.
https://www.grahamcluley.com/online-safety-cartoons-for-young-kids/
A series of cartoons are aiming to educate children as young as four about how to stay safe online.
caused the scooters’ front wheels to lock up randomly mid-ride. The sudden braking caused at least 30 injuries in 155 known incidents
usually occurred when riders were going downhill at high speeds
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/a3mm4z/the-rise-and-demise-of-rss
Before the internet was consolidated into centralized information silos, RSS imagined a better way to let users control their online personas.
https://loupventures.com/annual-smart-speaker-iq-test/
Google Assistant was able to answer 88% of them correctly vs. Siri at 75%, Alexa at 73%, and Cortana at 63%
Over a 12-month period, Google Home improved by 7 percentage points, Echo by 9 points, Siri (9-month) by 22 points, and Cortana by 7 points
https://www.diyphotography.net/samsung-used-my-dslr-photo-to-fake-their-phones-portrait-mode/
Earlier this year, Samsung was busted for using stock photos to show off capabilities of Galaxy A8’s camera. And now they did it again – they used a stock image taken with a DSLR […]
https://www.nrk.no/norge/vil-la-e-tjenesten-lagre-nordmenns-nett-trafikk-1.14291174
Mulighetene for masseovervåking av den norske nettrafikken nærmer seg dermed det Snowden-saken avslørte at amerikanske etterretningstjenester gjør i USA, sier fagdirektør Torgeir Waterhouse i […] IKT Norge.
https://www.wired.com/story/weather-channel-hurricane-florence-storm-surge-graphic/
It fills in the gaps of your imagination, and hopefully underscores for anyone in a flood zone all the reasons they should not be.
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/j5nzx4/what-was-the-first-blockchain
the world’s oldest blockchain predates Bitcoin by 13 years and it’s been hiding in plain sight
