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Apple’s AI plan: a thousand small conveniences
AI has become an integral part of every tech company’s pitch to consumers. Fail to hype up machine learning or neural networks when unveiling a new product, and you might as well be hawking hand-cranked calculators. This can lead to overpromising. Read full Article
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How Big Tech Monopolies Distort Our Public Discourse
Long before the pandemic crisis, there was widespread concern over the impact that tech was having on the quality of our discourse, from disinformation campaigns to influence campaigns to polarization. Read full Article
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Intelligent interfaces
Today, people interact with technology through ever more intelligent interfaces, moving from traditional keyboards to touchscreens, voice commands, and beyond. And even these engagement patterns are giving way to new and more seamless and natural methods of interaction. Read full Article
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Four lessons the COVID-19 crisis can teach us about data-driven storytelling
The coronavirus pandemic has exposed deep structural problems that go far beyond conventional ideas of public health, not least the impacts of pervasive inequality and racism. Civil society is mobilising to adapt and respond. Read full Article
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Merkel and Von Der Leyen The Two Women Who Could Transform Europe
With Ursula von der Leyen as Commission President and German Chancellor Angela Merkel about to take over the presidency of the European Council, the European Union is set to be run by two German women with a long history. The Continent might never be the same. Read full Article
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5 Economists Redefining… Everything. Oh Yes, And They’re Women
Few economists become household names. Last century, it was John Maynard Keynes or Milton Friedman. Today, Thomas Piketty has become the economists’ poster-boy. Yet listen to the buzz, and it is five female economists who deserve our attention. Read full Article
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Gerd Leonhard: “Se invierte muy poco en educar a los niños a ser más humanos”
Gerd Leonhard aboga por un giro radical en la educación. Cree que estamos preparando a los pequeños para comportarse como robots cuando la prioridad debe estar en asegurar el futuro de la humanidad frente a los automatismos. Read full Article
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Doomscrolling: Why We Just Can’t Look Away
Primal instincts often drive our obsession with stressful news, and social-media platforms are designed to keep us hooked Read full Article
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Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak: It’s up to people, not tech, to solve inequality
To be sure, Wozniak said technology plays a role in the process of addressing inequities by allowing people to access “facts and truth,” such as body cameras worn by police officers and cellphone footage from bystanders. Read full Article
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Experts predict what it’ll take to find a job in a post-Covid world
In February, employers were hiring [during] a roaring job market. It was really the strongest job market in any of our lifetimes. Today, probably about one-third of the workforce is working from home under COVID-19 in the US, and I don’t expect that is going to last. Read full Article
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Nearly half of Twitter accounts pushing to reopen America may be bots
To perform their most recent analysis, the researchers studied more than 200 million tweets discussing coronavirus or covid-19 since January. Read full Article
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The transhumanists who want to live forever
Given these clues, Clement is expanding his medicine cabinet of pills. Read full Article
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COVID-19 Q&A: As businesses reopen amid coronavirus, what are workers’ rights?
The coronavirus pandemic has claimed more than 85,000 lives so far in the U.S. with no vaccine or cure in sight. Nevertheless, with stay-at-home orders lifting across the nation and businesses reopening, many employees will be returning to the workplace soon. Read full Article
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Commentary: Big Tech’s coronavirus boom could be its undoing
NEW YORK CITY: Contact apps that trace where we have been and who we have touched; software that tells bosses how hard we’re working from home; face masks that light up to show whether we have a virus. These are just a few of the technologies being deployed to help fight the COVID-19 pandemic. Read … Continue reading "Commentary: Big Tech’s coronavirus boom could be its undoing"
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Why women make better crisis leaders
While many countries continue to grapple with escalating COVID-19 outbreaks, two have declared theirs effectively over: New Zealand and Iceland. It is no coincidence that both countries’ governments are led by women. Read full Article
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Why Are Women-Led Nations Doing Better With Covid-19?
Monday was a day of triumph for Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. Thanks to the efforts of the entire nation, she said, New Zealand had been largely successful in meeting its ambitious goal of eradicating, rather than just controlling, outbreaks of Covid-19. Read full Article
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How to win a feminist battle – six activists share their secrets
From helping to end a civil war to fighting the tampon tax, six women explain how their campaigns achieved the unimaginable Leymah Gwobee: A group of mothers ended Liberia’s civil war Liberia was very effective at killing itself during the civil war. Our population is around 4. Read full Article
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Facebook’s New Supreme Court: One Step Closer to Becoming a Virtual Country
Facebook’s announcement of their new “Supreme Court,” an announcement that was triggered by the coronavirus, represents a massive turning point in human history. While this may not be their goal, it looks like they’re on the verge of creating their own virtual country. Read full Article
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Computers Do Not Make Art, People Do
We live in an age of amazing new visual art created with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. The recent wave began with neural stylization apps and the trippy, evocative DeepDream. Many fine artists now work with neural network algorithms, creating high-profile works appearing in major venues. Read full Article
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The coronavirus crisis may lead to a new way of economic thinking
Rishi Sunak says the measures he has announced to support the economy are without precedent in peacetime, and he’s right. Never before has the British state agreed to pay the wages of those at risk of losing their jobs. Never before has the government ordered the pubs to shut. Read full Article
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