Facebook has been hit with another data-sharing scandal, again over the access that it gives or gave third parties to the data not only of its users, but also of their friends. Here’s what you need to know. Read full Article
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – The state of Washington said on Monday it had sued Facebook Inc (FB.O) and Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google, accusing the technology companies of violating state campaign finance law by failing to maintain public information about who buys election ads. Read full Article
Hollywood has a history of drawing on collective fears. The dawn of the atomic age saw a boom in world-ending disasters, James Bond battled Russians all throughout the cold war, and the post-9/11 era saw a grimly predictable rise in Arab and Muslim bad-guys. Read full Article
Europe implemented a sweeping overhaul of digital-privacy laws on Friday that has reshaped how technology companies handle customer data, creating a de-facto global standard that gives Americans new protections and the nation’s technology companies new headaches. Read full Article
STOCKTON, Calif. — This town in California’s Central Valley has long functioned as a display case for wrenching troubles afflicting American life: The housing bust that turned Stockton into an epicenter of a national foreclosure disaster and plunged the city into bankruptcy. Read full Article
Aja Huang dips his hand into a wooden bowl of polished black stones and, without looking, thumbs one between his middle and index finger. Peering through wire-rim glasses, he places the black stone on the board, in a mostly empty zone, just below and to the left of a single white stone. Read full Article
Máquinas dominando o homem, carros autônomos e até voadores, viver eternamente. Seria o fim dos tempos? Muitas pessoas acreditam em um futuro caótico, mas na visão do futurista e CEO da Agência do Futuro, Gerd Leonhard, o dia de amanhã é melhor do que pensamos. Read full Article
Police searching for a long-lost person or fugitive sometimes have little more to go on than an old photograph. Artists or computer programs can attempt to predict what these individuals look like today, but both approaches have flaws. Read full Article
American liberals, Samuel Moyn wrote last year in Dissent, have never broken ‘with the exceptionalist outlook that cast the United States as uniquely virtuous’, but having Trump in the ‘cockpit of American power’ will reveal ‘just how terrifyingly normal a nation we are, with our populist Read full Article
The reason you’ve been receiving a steady stream of privacy-policy updates from online services, some of which you may have forgotten you ever subscribed to, is that the European Union just enacted the General Data Protection Regulation, which gives users greater control over the information that Read full Article
The frightening truth about increasingly common cyber-attacks is that most businesses and the cybersecurity industry itself is not prepared. Beyond the lack of preparedness on the business level, the cybersecurity workforce itself is also having an incredibly hard time keeping up with demand. Read full Article
Cybersecurity specialist is set to become one of the information sector’s leading professions in near future, researchers have predicted. This trend in the job market will largely be driven by the Internet of Things (IoT), which will see some 47 billion devices connected to the internet. Read full Article
Sen. Jerry Moran (R., Kan.), chairman of the Senate’s consumer protection subcommittee, said he was considering joining in an effort by Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D., Conn.) to pass a privacy bill of rights in Congress. Read full Article
New technologies are already changing the way operations are run and have the huge potential to drastically change the way the industry functions in the future. Companies must be prepared to embrace this or be left behind. Read full Article
Through history there have been many wonderful visionaries, seers, futurists and writers who have presented us with glimpses of the future. Read full Article
One remarkable development of twentieth century science is the discovery that both physical structures and the communication of ideas can be assembled on the basis of algorithms that make use of codes. Read full Article
HOMO DEUS A Brief History of Tomorrow By Yuval Noah Harari Illustrated. 449 pp. Harper/HarperCollins Publishers. $35. “Organisms are algorithms,” Yuval Noah Harari asserts in his provocative new book, “Homo Deus. Read full Article
Historian Yuval Noah Harari offers a bracing prediction: just as mass industrialization created the working class, the AI revolution will create a new unworking class. Read full Article
