Author: Tech Support

    • Media historians, tech designers, science fiction writers, and activists on how and why "slow media" curated by humans should replace today's social media (Annalee Newitz/New York Times)

    Annalee Newitz / New York Times: Media historians, tech designers, science fiction writers, and activists on how and why “slow media” curated by humans should replace today’s social media  —  My quest to imagine a different reality. Media historians, tech designers, science fiction writers, and activists on how and why "slow media" curated by humans

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    • Susan Wojcicki on YouTube's stance on political ads, hate speech, conspiracy theories, and if it should be morally responsible for the content it recommends (Lesley Stahl/CBS News)

    Lesley Stahl / CBS News: Susan Wojcicki on YouTube’s stance on political ads, hate speech, conspiracy theories, and if it should be morally responsible for the content it recommends  —  YouTube’s mission is to give everyone a voice, but the site’s open platform has opened the door to hate. Susan Wojcicki on YouTube's stance on

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    • Inside the shady world of upstart Chinese cryptocurrency exchanges like MXC, whose pump and dump schemes may have prompted China's latest crypto crackdown (Shuyao Kong/Decrypt)

    Shuyao Kong / Decrypt: Inside the shady world of upstart Chinese cryptocurrency exchanges like MXC, whose pump and dump schemes may have prompted China’s latest crypto crackdown  —  The recent hardline stance on crypto seems to signal “blockchain not bitcoin.”  That’s wrong.  Here’s why China is cracking down on some exchanges—but not all of them.

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    Hackaday Links: December 1, 2019

    We can recall a book from our youth that cataloged some of the most interesting airplanes in the world. One particularly interesting beast was dubbed “The Super Guppy”, a hilariously distended cargo plane purpose-built for ferrying Saturn rocket sections around the US in the 1960s. We though the Guppies were long gone, victims like so

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    • Leaked documents show how China is trying to shape global standards for facial recognition, video monitoring, city and vehicle surveillance tech via UN's ITU (Financial Times)

    Financial Times: Leaked documents show how China is trying to shape global standards for facial recognition, video monitoring, city and vehicle surveillance tech via UN’s ITU  —  Chinese technology companies are shaping new facial recognition and surveillance standards at the UN, according to leaked documents obtained … Leaked documents show how China is trying to

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    • New regulations that require buyers of SIM cards to have their faces scanned, in addition to providing an official ID, come in to force in China on December 1 (Annabelle Timsit/Quartz)

    Annabelle Timsit / Quartz: New regulations that require buyers of SIM cards to have their faces scanned, in addition to providing an official ID, come in to force in China on December 1  —  A new rule requiring face scans of customers signing up for new mobile plans in China came into effect Sunday (Dec.

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    • Ocado, a UK-based grocery delivery service trying to become a warehouse automation tech provider, strikes a deal with Japan's largest supermarket operator Aeon (Financial Times)

    Financial Times: Ocado, a UK-based grocery delivery service trying to become a warehouse automation tech provider, strikes a deal with Japan’s largest supermarket operator Aeon  —  Ocado, the UK food delivery service transforming itself into a provider of automated warehouses for retail chains … Ocado, a UK-based grocery delivery service trying to become a warehouse

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