A look at crowdsourced juries in China, like Meituan's “kangaroo jury” made up of volunteers who adjudicate disputes between buyers and sellers on its platform
Jennifer Conrad / Wired : Tweets: @wired and @scottthurm Tweets: @wired : When ecommerce took off in China, the country lacked structures like widespread credit scores and effective consumer protecti...
How investigators like “Gabagool” are using open source tech to identify, track down, and expose foul play and questionable practices in DeFi
Open source investigators are struggling to maintain law and order in the wildest recesses of cryptocurrency's Wild West. Tweets: @pardesoteric and @scottthurm Tweets: Arielle Pardes / @pardesoteric :...
A leading antitrust scholar says Google's ad marketplace should be regulated as it both runs the market and competes as its biggest buyer and seller
A leading antitrust scholar says yes. Congress may be listening. — The days of suit-clad men shouting out orders on the bustling floors … Tweets: @wired , @scottthurm , @dinasrinivasan , and @nxtho...
Low paying but accessible jobs in crowd work, such as tagging photos and filling out surveys, are seeing a boom on platforms like Mechanical Turk since COVID-19
People who've lost jobs and are stuck indoors are turning to crowd work—filling out online surveys and transcribing audio for less than the minimum wage. Tweets: @sesmith and @scottthurm Tweets: S.E. ...
Interview with Garry Kasparov, the first chess world champion to be defeated by a computer, about chess, AI, and a strategy for staying a step ahead of machines
Twenty-three years after he lost to Deep Blue, Kasparov says people need to work with machines. You have to “nudge the flock of intelligent algorithms.” Tweets: @softengresgrp , @warinthefuture , @to...
A look at a secretive team of quantum researchers at Alphabet's X, who are focused on creating new algorithms and applications to run on quantum computers
Google's parent touted its quantum supremacy achievement last year. It doesn't talk about a group at X working on software. Tweets: @glenngabe , @scottthurm , @tsimonite , @gregoryjbarber , and @nxth...
A look at a secretive team of quantum researchers at Alphabet's X, who are focused on creating new algorithms and applications to run on quantum computers
Google's parent touted its quantum supremacy achievement last year. It doesn't talk about a group at X working on software. Tweets: @scottthurm , @gregoryjbarber , @nxthompson , and @tsimonite Tweets...
Facebook shares proposed bylaws for its oversight board, which some have called a content moderation “supreme court”, that leave Facebook firmly in control
essentially a “Supreme Court” of content decisions. What we kind of already knew, but what the bylaws confirmed, is this group will NOT make decisions quickly. It could take months. https://www.bloomb...
China's AI unicorns like Megvii, which thrived on government contracts for facial recognition, are now facing challenges amid US sanctions and cheaper tech
Will Knight / Wired : Tweets: @scottthurm , @ealmirall , @psb_dc , @willknight , and @privacyproject Tweets: Scott Thurm / @scottthurm : China has a half-dozen companies focused on AI with lofty valu...
A look at burgeoning industry of influencer marketing, where brands routinely shell out $60K+ for one video review, or $85K+ to publicly disparage a competitor
WHEN SAHARA LOTTI started her lash extensions company, Lashify, in 2017, she didn't know what she was getting herself into. Tweets: @carnage4life , @jasongay , @nxthompson , @scottthurm , @sub8u , @pa...