Saturday 2nd February, 2019 #
- The Turin Test is Bullshit
- What we learned from net neutrality’s big day in court - I wonder what the super long term aim of both sides is, often rules that get implemented don't show their real intended use cases for many years, how will net neutrality concepts affect us in the future when the internet is even more integrated into the human experience, and AIs are everywhere? It's often a fight for the control of something important, what is it this time, intelligence perhaps?
- Spotify is reportedly in talks to acquire podcast company Gimlet Media
- Rewriting the past - do historical movies have to be accurate?
- Forget privacy - you're terrible at targeting anyway - really on point article about the realities of machine learning, advertising, trackers and privacy
- Snopes pulls out of its fact-checking partnership with Facebook
- A curated list of remote jobs for workers based in Europe
- Inside Roald Dahl's backyard writing "hut" - It occurs to me that computer programmers and literary writers have a lot in common, not least the many hours per day spent immersed in an entirely mental/imagined world - I hope it's not unhealthy
- These were the 10 biggest European tech stories this week
- London MET Police are testing out facial recognition cameras at several tube stations in the east-end - people have been arrested for covering up their faces