A look at @depthsofwikipedia, a viral social media account created by 22-year-old Annie Rauwerda that shares bizarre, amusing, and surprising Wikipedia snippets
On @depthsofwikipedia, Annie Rauwerda is compiling some of the crowdsourced site's most bizarre pages. Tweets: @nytimes , @raju , @pomeranian99 , @macmccanntx , @joshuatopolsky , @markyarm , @yaso , a...
Interview with Maryana Iskander, Wikimedia Foundation's next CEO, on the org's transparency, handling misinformation on Wikipedia pages, and more
Two decades ago, Wikipedia arrived on the scene as a quirky online project that aimed to crowdsource and document all of human knowledge and history in real time. Tweets: @djparekh , @worklifereward ,...
A look at the decade long struggle to bring the script of Tulu, an Indian language, into Unicode, and the problem of keeping languages alive in the digital age
Varsha Bansal / Rest of World : Tweets: @xor , @restofworld , @mvzelenks , @restofworld , @restofworld , @cengizyar , @dlberes , @raju , @varshaabansal , and @restofworld Tweets: Parker Higgins / @xo...
Study of 6K websites and 900 apps that host pirated movies and TV finds they make ~$1.3B per year from ads, including from ads by Amazon, Facebook, and Google
- Stolen-content providers make $1.3 billion a year, study says — Amazon, Facebook, Google contribute ads to the websites Tweets: @raju Tweets: Raju Narisetti / @raju : Double Dipping A study shows...
A look at gallium nitride chips, which could replace silicon chips in a growing range of electronics and be produced in conventional fabs, unlike graphene chips
Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @wsj , @amcafee , @raju , @wsj , and @gyude_moore Tweets: @wsj : Meet gallium, the weird metal that melts in your hand and is powering a revolution in...
The key for tech companies to make remote work sustainable is not through policy, but by shifting “work” away from in-person surveillance toward defined results
it can also change the very nature of our jobs into something more enjoyable, and productive,” @CalNewport2 writes. https://nyer.cm/K4YDDeg Tanmoy / @toymango : Just how many companies are itching to ...
Inside the intense debate among Wikipedia editors to include the coronavirus lab leak theory on COVID-19 pages, as the theory has gained more media attention
Building a better encyclopedia requires consensus and neutrality, but behind the scenes, editors wrangle with the pandemic's most contentious question. Tweets: @jeskillings , @dctrjack , @raju , @dvan...
A look at the legal fight between Amazon and Reliance over Indian retail company Future Group, which has agreed to sell its retail assets to Reliance for $3.4B
Aman Sethi / New York Times : Tweets: @nytimes , @raju , @dealbook , and @dealbook Tweets: @nytimes : A grocery chain in India is at the center of a battle between Amazon and one of the world's riche...
Sources: Google, Facebook, Telegram, LinkedIn, ShareChat, and Koo have either fully or partially complied with India's new IT rules; Twitter has yet to comply
reigniting the age-old battle of national interest versus freedom of speech NDTV.com : All Big Firms Except Twitter Sent Details Under New IT Rules: Sources Msmash / Slashdot : Facebook, WhatsApp, Goo...
Researcher: Twitter is working on Twitter Blue, a $2.99/month subscription offering with “Collections” to organize favorite tweets and an “undo tweet” function
here's what it is Charlesarthur / The Overspill : Start Up No.1550: the lifesaving tracing app, the antivax superspreaders, ransomware gangs go dark, Twitter plans subscriptions, and more Prakhar Khan...