Five days of fury: Inside Trump’s Paris temper, election woes and staff upheaval
The Washington Post met een overzicht van Trump’s afgelopen week: “He’s just a bull carrying his own china shop with him whenever he travels the world,” presidential historian Douglas Brinkley said. En: “Trump needs adulation, so heading into the midterms, holding these rallies, he was cheered and it became narcissistic fuel to his engine,” Brinkley […]
Delay, Deny and Deflect: How Facebook’s Leaders Fought Through Crisis
Mega-artikel in The New York Times. Dit vond ik het interessantste stuk: By January 2017, the group knew that Mr. Stamos’s original team had only scratched the surface of Russian activity on Facebook, and pressed to issue a public paper about their findings. But Mr. Kaplan and other Facebook executives objected. Washington was already reeling […]
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I asked an online tracking company for all of my data and here’s what I found
Zotte dingen op de website van Privacy International: The world is being rebuilt by companies and governments so that they can exploit data. Without urgent and continuous action, data will be used in ways that people cannot now even imagine, to define and manipulate our lives without us being to understand why or being able […]
Marvel and Disney Remember Stan Lee
R.I.P. “Stan Lee was as extraordinary as the characters he created. A super hero in his own right to Marvel fans around the world, Stan had the power to inspire, to entertain, and to connect. The scale of his imagination was only exceeded by the size of his heart,” said Bob Iger, Chairman and CEO, […]
Sundar Pichai of Google: ‘Technology Doesn’t Solve Humanity’s Problems’
In een interview met The New York Times: One of the things that’s not well understood, I think, is that we operate in many countries where there is censorship. When we follow “right to be forgotten” laws, we are censoring search results because we’re complying with the law. I’m committed to serving users in China. […]
Fotoreeks: ‘Guide to computing’
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Six Secrets From the Planner of Sevilla’s Lightning Bike Network
Interessant interview van StreetsBlog USA met ene Manuel – I kid you not – Calvo: “In mobility issues, my experience is that consensus is impossible, because there are so many interests,” he said. “So you have to make an agreement with most of the people. But taking into account — being clear — that something is being done.”
Marco Arment’s 2018 iPad Pro Review
Al je friendly neighbourhood tech bloggers zijn na het podcasten nu ook aan het vloggen geslaan. Na enkele pogingen slaagt Marco Arment erin een heel goeie stijl aan te slaan, rustig (geen hippe technobeats) en relevant (geen lijstje tech specs, maar zijn eigen gebruik: zoals het stukje over vingerafdrukken op het scherm). www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBD_48AY0Zc