Syndication

All stories in Syndication

• Big tech’s ‘ethical guidelines’ are no substitute for real regulation

  Data ethics is now a cause célèbre. “Digital ethics and privacy” shot into research and advisory company Gartner’s top ten strategic technology trends for 2019. Before that it barely raised a mention. In the past year governments, corporations and policy and technology ...

  • The Conversation

• How tech giants can strangle transformative tech at birth — and how to stop them

  Google is digesting its third whopping antitrust penalty from the European Commission, having been fined €1.5 billion (£1.3 billion) for abusing its market dominance around online advertising. The case concerned web publishers embedding a Google-powered search engine on their site, ...

  • The Conversation

• Game developers help NASA imagine what life in space will look like

  NASA spent much of the 20th century commissioning painters and illustrators to imagine the future of space exploration. When Jeff Norris, the head of Mission Operations Innovation at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL), wanted a way to inspire a new generation of potential engineers, ...

  • Paul Dean

• The best use of body hacking might be in hospitals

  Reminders of the fragility of our bodies are unavoidable. You just have to hope that your next injury won’t be too painful or long-lasting. My most recent started in 2014, with knee pain. It felt like a little electric shock to the outside of the knee joint. At first it was the ...

  • Andrew Williams

• Smart cities are an AI-powered dystopia that's already happening

  Separating the futuristic from the dystopian in the minds of the general public can be a challenge, particularly when trying to conceptualize a diverse technology such as AI recognition. In today’s markets, a tangible example can be seen in consumer products such as the iPhone ...

  • Binary District Journal

• Alexa, Siri, and Google Assistant are changing how we interact with the world by doing it for us

  Innovation shapes our daily experiences, offering us the chance to seize the convenience offered by modern technology. Since the advent of smart speakers and voice-enabled digital assistants, voice-user interface (VUI) technology has experienced an explosion in popularity among consumers ...

  • Adrien Schmidt

• Ancient whales had four legs, and split their time between land and sea

  Whales belong in the ocean, right? That may be true today, but cetaceans (whales, dolphins, porpoises) actually descended from four legged mammals that once lived on land. New research published in Current Biology reports the discovery in Peru of an entirely new species of ancestral ...

  • The Conversation

• Scientists: Earth might be ripped apart by gravity when the Sun dies

  If it weren’t for the sun constantly showering us with energy, there would be no life on Earth. But eventually stars like it run out of fuel, expand into red giants and finally collapse into small, faint objects called white dwarfs. So what will happen to us and the other planets ...

  • The Conversation

• You don't really own the digital books and movies you bought online

  Microsoft has announced that it will close the books category of its digital store. While other software and apps will still be available via the virtual shop front, and on purchasers’ consoles and devices, the closure of the eBook store takes with it customers’ eBook libraries. ...

  • The Conversation

• No country for old devs: How to solve tech's ageism problem

  When it comes to job hunting, a common concern is not having enough experience. In tech, the fear riddling job seekers and ...

  • Howard Williams

• Meet the biohackers who are putting technology into their own bodies

  Technology has become increasingly intrusive. Just a few decades ago, the idea of being near-constantly tethered to a device ...

  • Binary District Journal

• Payment options in apps can be designed better

  Let’s start with a simple thought: What was the last meal that you had? How did you decide to eat a certain dish as opposed ...

  • Dharmesh Ba