As something new I’m gonna try to curate a weekly reading list of interesting articles I found during the week. This is the first weekly, and the format is probably gonna evolve over time.
Enjoy!
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Facebook, Cambridge Analytica and privacy
- Foot-in-Mouthbook.
https://500ish.com/foot-in-mouthbook-c35a64cd9341 - Facebook Quietly Hid Webpages Bragging of Ability to Influence Elections. https://theintercept.com/2018/03/14/facebook-election-meddling/
- Why the Outrage? William Davies on Cambridge Analytica. https://www.lrb.co.uk/v40/n07/william-davies/why-the-outrage
- Europe’s New Privacy Law Will Change the Web, and More. https://www.wired.com/story/europes-new-privacy-law-will-change-the-web-and-more/
- China’s New Frontiers in Dystopian Tech. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/04/big-in-china-machines-that-scan-your-face/554075/
- How Facebook Helps Shady Advertisers Pollute the Internet. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-03-27/ad-scammers-need-suckers-and-facebook-helps-find-them
AI and Cloud
- What Comes After The Cloud? https://shift.newco.co/what-comes-after-the-cloud-b8b9af91828a
- It certainly looks bad for Uber. http://ideas.4brad.com/it-certainly-looks-bad-uber
- Commoditisation of AI, digital forgery and the end of trust: how we can fix it. https://giorgiop.github.io/posts/2018/03/17/AI-and-digital-forgery
- Non-tech businesses are beginning to use artificial intelligence at scale. https://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21739431-artificial-intelligence-spreading-beyond-technology-sector-big-consequences
- Emmanuel Macron Talks to WIRED About France’s AI Strategy. https://www.wired.com/story/emmanuel-macron-talks-to-wired-about-frances-ai-strategy/
Science
- Scientists say we’re on the cusp of a carbon dioxide–recycling revolution. http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/03/scientists-say-we-re-cusp-carbon-dioxide-recycling-revolution
- What Saudi Arabia’s 200 GW solar power plant would look like — if placed in your neighborhood. https://qz.com/1240862/what-saudi-arabias-200-gw-solar-power-plant-would-look-like-from-space/
Economy
- China Plans To Pay For Oil Imports With Yuan Instead Of Dollars. https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-03-31/china-plans-pay-oil-imports-yuan-instead-dollars
Mobile and emerging markets
- Mobile Internet Users In India Seen At 478 Million By June, Says Report. https://www.bloombergquint.com/business/2018/03/29/mobile-internet-users-in-india-seen-at-478-million-by-june-says-report’
- Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs From 2020, Replacing Intel. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-02/apple-is-said-to-plan-move-from-intel-to-own-mac-chips-from-2020
Web
- Progressive Web Apps on iOS are here 🚀. https://medium.com/@firt/progressive-web-apps-on-ios-are-here-d00430dee3a7
Microsoft
- From Windows to the CloudFrom Windows to the Cloud. https://medium.com/@timsneath/from-windows-to-the-cloud-89d5ae28a95f
Startup
- Shyp: I Can’t Wait for You to See What We Do Next. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/i-cant-wait-you-see-what-we-do-next-kevin-gibbon/
- Attack Of The Micro Brands. https://medium.com/positiveslope/attack-of-the-micro-brands-c0b7835c3633
Design and architecture
- Infrared Camera Captures Otherworldly Modernist Landscape. https://medium.com/the-omnivore/infrared-camera-captures-otherworldly-modernist-landscape-2bea7adc63a7
Cool and weird
- The Ikea Manual Of The Future Looks Amazing. https://www.fastcodesign.com/90165061/the-ikea-manual-of-the-future-looks-amazing
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