Covid-19 infects people in “bursts” like the one at the White House, and this administration hasn’t just made that easier—it made it inevitable. Powered by WPeMatico
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Mainstream media is the biggest amplifier of White House disinformation
The president is running a disinformation campaign, and too many people won’t call it what it is. “The simplest disinformation is explicitly false or misleading information disseminated for political ends,” says Yochai Benkler, a Harvard law professor who led a team that recently dissected the way disinformation is amplified. Take President Trump’s claim that voting by […]
Amazon Wants to ‘Win at Games.’ So Why Hasn’t It?
After brute-forcing its way to dominance in so many industries, the tech leviathan may finally have met its match. Powered by WPeMatico
How Google’s Android Keyboard Keeps ‘Smart Replies’ Private
The latest Gboard feature needs to know as much as possible about your digital life to work—but doesn’t share that data with Google. Powered by WPeMatico
5G and the enterprise opportunity
Download the full report. “5G and the enterprise opportunity: How leading operators are developing ecosystem, cloud, and AI strategies for winning in 5G” is an MIT Technology Review Insights report that examines how operators are transforming their business and technology environments to deliver 5G enterprise services, particularly focusing on cloud, automation, and the ecosystems that […]
A new social-media platform wants to enforce “kindness.” Can that ever work?
In middle school and high school, Nora Tan downloaded the big three of social media. It was only natural. “I grew up in the age when social media was really taking off,” says Tan, a Seattle-based product manager. “I created a Facebook account in 2009, an Instagram account in 2010, a Twitter account after that […]
How the truth was murdered
Hundreds of thousands of Americans are dead in a pandemic, and one of the infected is the President of the United States. But not even personally contracting covid-19 has stopped him from minimizing the illness in Twitter messages to his supporters. Meanwhile, suburban moms steeped in online health propaganda are printing out Facebook memes and […]
Congress Unveils Its Plan to Curb Big Tech’s Power
A report by a House subcommittee takes aim at Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google. Powered by WPeMatico
Congress Unveils Its Plan to Curb Big Tech’s Power
A report by a House subcommittee takes aim at Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google. Powered by WPeMatico
Asbestos could be a powerful weapon against climate change (you read that right)
On a scorching day this August, Caleb Woodall wielded his shovel like a spear, stabbing it into the hardened crust of an asbestos-filled pit near Coalinga, California. Woodall, a graduate student at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts, was digging out samples from an asbestos mine that’s been shuttered since 1980, a Superfund site on the […]