A look at efforts by Apple and others to become carbon neutral by investing in eucalyptus farms in Brazil's Cerrado region, amid skepticism from some ecologists
We were losing the light, and still about 20 kilometers from the main road, when the car shuddered and died at the edge of a strange forest. Mastodon: @peterpur@hci.social . X: @shehzadyounis . Linked...
An analysis of nearly 4,000 public datasets finds that over 90% of AI training datasets came from Europe and North America, and fewer than 4% came from Africa
that's reshaping the infrastructures of our world in ways that reflect the interests of those big corporations.” Niall Firth / @niallfirth : New findings show how the sources of data are concentrating...
Federated networks like Mastodon and a growing acceptance of paying for content may help move people away from big social platforms and improve online discourse
We're in a very strange moment for the internet. We all know it's broken. That's not news. Mastodon: @stefan@gardenstate.social , @jangles@mastodon.social , @Cassandra@artisan.chat , @timbray@cosoci...
Q&A with OpenAI's Sandhini Agarwal, Liam Fedus, Jan Leike, and co-founder John Schulman on training ChatGPT, dealing with its virality, fixing issues, and more
Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review : Tweets: @trengriffin , @tiagodf , @antonioregalado , @techreview , @ndiakopoulos , @jjaron , @niallfirth , and @ketanj0 Tweets: Tren Griffin / @trengriff...
A look at Tonga's internet blackout following the volcano blast, which initial investigations suggest destroyed the country's single undersea internet cable
a volcanic eruption broke it Isobel Asher Hamilton / Insider : Tonga's volcanic eruption ruptured a giant undersea internet cable and knocked the country's internet offline João Tomé / The Cloudflare ...
Google Docs is a key tool for organizing protests, as activists anonymously edit public lists of funds, charities, books on racism, and letter-writing templates
Facebook and Twitter might have the bells and whistles, but the word processing doc's simplicity and accessibility have made it a winning tool. Tweets: @halleberry , @hautepop , @dariorodighiero , @aa...
Facebook will curb vaccine misinformation by reducing the ranking of anti-vaccine Pages and groups, halting recommendations for those pages, rejecting ads, more
and dumber—Facebook announces crackdown Louise Matsakis / Wired : Facebook Will Crack Down on Anti-Vaccine Content Michael Allison / MSPoweruser : Facebook decides to quarantine anti vaxxers Napier Lo...