All stories by Alejandro
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A Twitter bot that translates jungle sounds to existential questions might just help save the rainforest
On Thursday, March 21, at 00:36, a cricket in Borneo chirped “fuck me and you and he he he and his and what he really?” ...
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Actually, reading books on a phone is great
As a physical book apologist, it pains me to write this. I love books. I love the unwieldy weight, the slowly yellowing pages, ...
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Ask TNW's founders ANYTHING about our Financial Times deal
By now, you might have heard the news that TNW has sold a majority stake to the — and we don’t use this word lightly ...
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thiscatdoesnotexist.com is, uhm, not as good as its human counterpart
AI still needs some time to figure out how cats work. That is the idea one gets when visiting thiscatdoesnotexist.com. Just like its human counterpart that we covered last week, the algorithm behind the site generates an image of a cat based on how it 'learned' a cat looks from ...
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Medieval monster-drawing monks and why it's ok to hate-follow shitty people on Twitter
What would a social media feed be without monsters? I’m talking figurative monsters here; your racist uncles, your Trumps, ...
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German artists brilliantly honeypot 'Nazis' into exposing themselves and their friends
Their site promised people cash to name participants of a violent anti-immigrant protest. But that wasn’t the real goal. ...
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Don’t post your kid online
As we set out on a two-hour drive, my pregnant girlfriend told me she didn’t want anyone, including ourselves, to share ...
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We just launched Plugged - a place where we write about gadgets for humans
Plugged is TNW's new section where we discuss gadgets from a human perspective, come check it out, you won't regret the click. ...
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Environmental crime is a huge invisible problem — IoT will expose it
It’s a problem so big, that the police force of one of the world’s smallest countries is planning on reaching out to ...
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Apple's emojified execs sure look awful as humans
Today's World Emoji Day. To celebrate this stupid holiday I turned Apple's executive staff – who had some poor corporate ...
