A deep look at the rift between some prominent SV figures and the journalists increasingly critical of the tech industry, based on Slate Star Codex vs. The NYT
Long, angry LRB essay by Pankaj Mishra. Tweets: Balaji S. Srinivasan / @balajis : Had a fun chat just now with Lewis-Kraus on positive sum ways to build a new relationship between tech & media. He rec...
A deep look at the rift between some prominent Silicon Valley figures and increasingly critical media, based on the case of Slate Star Codex vs. The NYT
How a controversial rationalist blogger became a mascot and martyr in a struggle against the New York Times. Tweets: @jonbernhardt , @juliacarriew , @can , @newyorker , @karaswisher , @can , @halophoe...
Unacast, an analytics company using location data from a variety of apps, debuts a Social Distancing Scoreboard to grade how US citizens are adapting by region
or not. Data from tens of millions of smartphones grades counties & states by how much people are staying put. Washington, DC gets an A Wyoming gets an F See your county https://www.washingtonpost.com...
Amazon's Ring says that it receives some real-time 911 call data, including addresses, from police, which helps it curate crime news posts for its Neighbors app
here's what it's like Louise Matsakis / Wired : Cops Are Offering Ring Doorbell Cameras in Exchange for Info Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing : Amazon's secret deals with local cops give them access to rea...