Today’s scary and historical coup effort by pro-Trump extremists in Washington, D.C. played out live the exact same method it was fomented —– on social networks. As soon as once again Twitter, streaming websites and other user-generated media were the only location to discover what was taking place in the country’s capital —– and the …
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Devon Powers Contributor Devon Powers is an associate professor of advertising at Temple University and the author of “On Trend: The Business of Forecasting the Future.” David Parisi Contributor David Parisi is an associate professor at the College of Charleston and author of “Archaeologies of Touch: Interfacing with Haptics from Electricity to Computing.” In March, …
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What happens if a Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic hits? It’s time to at least start asking that question. What will the repercussions be, if the virus spreads worldwide? How will it change how we live, work, socialize, and travel? Don’t get all disaster-movie here. Some people seem to have the notion that a pandemic will mean …
A network of fraudsters utilized a ring of recognized conservative Facebook pages to stir Islamophobia and make a fast dollar while doing so, a brand-new report from the Guardian exposes. It’s less a large worldwide conspiracy and more just that Facebook is not able to police its platform to avoid even the most primary frauds …
Scammers peddling Islamophobic clickbait is business as usual at Facebook Read More »
At last, it is here! The truly self-driving car, no human behind the wheel! For the public! …A few hundred of them, in a closed beta, in a small corner of sun-drenched (never snow-drenched, almost never water-drenched) suburban Phoenix, five years later than some people were predicting six years ago. Few new technologies have ever …
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China is exporting its social worths, political advertisements are a vital part of totally free expression and the meaning of hazardous speech need to be kept in check, Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg argued today in a speech at Georgetown University. He slammed how American business that work with China were ending up being affected by …
Zuckerberg on Chinese censorship: Is that the internet we want? Read More »
The tech industry has won at capitalism. From America to China, from Amazon to Alibaba, from Alphabet to Tencent, the most valuable and most dynamic companies in the world are technology companies. But what kind of capitalism? Because there are really two different modes, two ways to get rich. One is to claim a share …
