Big tech surveillance could damage democracy
Data is often called the oil of the 21st century.
Internet
Jun 4, 2019
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Crest Whitestrips and the myth of big company innovation
Paul Sagel seems to have violated all the presumed rules about innovation at big companies. With a swipe of gel and a strip of plastic, the Procter & Gamble research fellow created a $250 million annual line of business for ...
Economics & Business
Jun 4, 2019
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Why the binding arbitration game is rigged against customers
You may have noticed it in the boilerplate of your customer contract with a bank, a brokerage firm, or just a cellular phone carrier.
Economics & Business
Mar 13, 2019
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Tech companies scope out Africa surveillance sector
At a security exhibition in Morocco tech companies pushed to convince African officials that their state-of-the-art surveillance tools are the key to stability and development.
Business
Feb 24, 2019
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Three ways that big data reveals what you really like to watch, read and listen to
Anyone who's watched "Bridget Jones's Diary" knows one of her New Year's resolutions is "Not go out every night but stay in and read books and listen to classical music."
Other
Jan 29, 2019
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How governments use Big Data to violate human rights
The right to privacy has become a pressing human rights issue. And rightly so. Big data —combined with artificial intelligence and facial recognition software —has the capacity to intrude on people's lives in unprecedented ...
Political science
Jan 14, 2019
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US Congress to see push to regulate Big Tech in 2019
The newly installed US Congress is expected to see a fresh effort to develop new regulations for big technology firms, with a focus on tougher enforcement of privacy and data protection.
Business
Jan 6, 2019
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SpaceX's Elon Musk renames his big rocket 'Starship'
SpaceX chief executive Elon Musk has announced he is changing the name of his monster rocket BFR, aimed at carrying people to the Moon and possibly one day to Mars, to "Starship."
Space Exploration
Nov 20, 2018
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China moves to rope in its tech 'unicorns'
Having lost the likes of Alibaba and Baidu to Wall Street, China is hatching a plan to woo them back and make sure it keeps a new generation of technology titans closer to home as it battles the US for supremacy in the sector.
Business
May 9, 2018
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Sagebrush ecosystem recovery hobbled by loss of soil complexity at development sites
In big sagebrush country, re-establishing the ecosystem's namesake shrub may jump-start the recovery process more successfully after oil and gas development than sowing grass-dominated reclamation seed mixes typically used ...
Ecology
Jan 26, 2015
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