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• Twitter's refusal to dox a cow stymies Republican's $250M lawsuit

  US Rep. Devin Nunes can't seem to catch a break. First, despite his memo blaming Obama and the FBI for all the evils in the world, his fellow former members of the Trump transition team keep getting indicted for being bad at crime. And now he can't figure out which one of his cows ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Opinion: Facebook's brain computer interface will be the instrument of society's collapse

  Anyone else think giving Facebook literal access to our brains is a catastrophically stupid idea? If you missed it: Facebook's building a brain computer interface (BCI). In the company's words, the gadget will be: A non-invasive, wearable device that lets people type by simply ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Trump-appointed NASA head just declared Pluto a planet again

  NASA Chief Jim Bridenstine – a politician who's probably seen one or two episodes of “Cosmos” – has officially declared Pluto a planet again. His reasoning: that's the way he learned it in high school. https://twitter.com/CReppWx/status/1164981282562039809 Bridenstine's ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Google's new policy forbids employees from having 'raging debates' over politics

  Google used to be the epitome of young, smart, techy culture. Its offices have always been lauded as a workplace where free expression, thinking outside of the box, and challenging the status quo were valued more than the ability to keep your head down and meet quotas. Those days ...

  • Tristan Greene

• This AI-powered text generator is the scariest thing I’ve ever seen — and you can try it

  OpenAI, a nonprofit focused on creating human-level artificial intelligence, just released an update to its GPT-2 text generator. I'm not being hyperbolic when I say that, after trying it, I'm legitimately terrified for the future of humanity if we don't figure out a way to detect ...

  • Tristan Greene

• I’m scared shitless of my new robot colleague

  The age of man has ended: my new colleague is a robot writer.

  • Már Másson Maack

• Just putting it out there: I still buy MP3s

  In this column, “Just putting this out there...,” we write about the odd ways we engage with tech and the unpopular opinions we form about it. You can read the rest of the articles in this series here. One of my biggest sources of inner turmoil is how I consume music: I still ...

  • Georgina Ustik

• Project Veritas and 'whistle-blower' published bullshit 'data-leak' to dox Google employees

  Project Veritas, a non-profit conspiracy theory outlet, today dropped the 'bombshell' that it'd obtained hundreds of leaked internal documents from a whistle-blower showing Google's bias against Conservatives. Unfortunately, as is almost always the case with Project Veritas, the claims ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Humans have been listening to our 'AI-transcribed' conversations for over a decade

  This ain't new. AI is a con job.

  • Matthew Hughes

• The tech media keeps hyping awful, exploitative fintech products

  The Apple Card is basically Wonga but with shiny American teeth

  • Matthew Hughes

• #GreenShirtGuy is the cure for political absurdity

  Social media discourse is generally unhinged. But for those who follow US politics, simply opening the Twitter or Facebook ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Porn company wants $10K to shoot you screwing in VR before you’re too old to be attractive

  “Yes, time travel is finally possible.” As someone who's written extensively about quantum physics, the arrow of time, ...

  • Tristan Greene