Trading privacy for survival is another tax on the poor
Americans at the lower end of the economic ladder suffer from an ever-growing privacy divide, impacting more than just their personal dignity and autonomy.
What a 19th-century French novel tells us about Jeff Bezos and Amazon
Meet Emile Zola’s Octave Mouret: a Bezos-like merchant/innovator created 111 years before Amazon sold its first book.
Why Google defined a new discipline to help humans make decisions
Machine-learning systems are only as smart as their training data. So Google formalized the marshaling of hard and soft sciences that go into its decisions.
Inside The Weird, Profitable Study Of “Social Physics”
Social physics can predict the creativity and productivity of a team based on their communication patterns alone, determine which apps you will download or which business plans executives will choose....
Inside The Data-Driven System That Keeps The Netherlands Above Water
The white skeleton of the Maeslantkering, the massive floating water barrier protecting Rotterdam from high seas, dazzles in the sunshine. This engineering marvel is one of the largest moving structures...
How A Former Android Developer Created “The Martian,” A New Sci-Fi Masterpiece
With the help of 3,000 hardcore fans, Andy Weir wrote the book that is now the fall’s hottest movie.
State of independence: An inside view of Minecraft developer Mojang
Mojang’s founders didn’t set out to become millionaires; they just like making games. Now they want to make Mojang the best workplace in the world.
The Father Of “Getting Things Done”: You’re Getting Me All Wrong
Productivity guru David Allen on Zen, doing nothing, and why some people need to “stop focusing on their goals and actually get shit done.”
Why Doctors Make Great Object-Oriented Software Designers
Building health care apps means knowing complex systems both biological and bureaucratic. Here’s how a company called Modernizing Medicine is meeting the challenge.
Crimesourcing and how data criminals are like startup employees
“Organized crime is exactly that – organized,” said Marc Goodman at this week’s O’Reilly Strata conference, “especially in the field of cyber crime.”
How Video Forensics Are Changing The Way Cops Find Criminals
Police forces around the world are struggling to deal the volume of child sex abuse material being produced and shared. Now INTERPOL, the world’s largest International police organization, is using...
Why Freelancing Isn’t For The Faint Of Heart
These days everyone wants to be their own CEO. But can they handle the risk that comes with it?
