2022-03-18 23:33:23 RT @natalie_allison: This is not an episode of Jerry Springer. It’s tonight’s Ohio Republican Senate debate. “You’re dealing with the wron… 2022-03-18 17:14:46 RT @willknight: My latest story: Russia appears to be using the KUB-BLA, a lethal drone that can identify targets using AI, in Ukraine. It… 2022-03-18 16:27:39 RT @tsimonite: Valeriya Ionan, deputy minister of Digital Transformation in Ukraine, was breastfeeding her 2-month old son when the first e… 2022-03-18 15:16:53 Startups are cutting back—and bracing for worse https://t.co/SLwJ6cXIZv via @KateClarkTweets 2022-03-18 01:17:01 RT @SamGregory: The Zelensky deepfake seems all too easy in debunk, but we shouldn't let our guard down "Not all people targeted by deepfak… 2022-03-16 23:27:54 RT @mahiradayal: For tonight’s newsletter, I spoke to @johnriccitiello, CEO of @unity about creator revenue, next steps for Weta Digital an… 2022-03-16 22:18:14 This would be funny, if it weren't so tragic https://t.co/Bnqa4ZFp8c 2022-03-16 22:11:29 Agree. Read it! https://t.co/t1X1N0p9D1 2022-03-16 21:18:02 RT @SylviaVarnham: New details about the bill: - Tech cos have just two months to get up to speed on the law before penalties can be impos… 2022-03-16 21:17:54 RT @MarkDiStef: Scoop with @SylviaVarnham: U.K. government set to reveal new offences which could send tech executives from companies like… 2022-03-16 14:32:15 RT @ianbremmer: # of govt requests for content to be removed from google in the first half of 2021 russia 18,841 india 1586 turkey 1063… 2022-03-16 03:41:14 RT @WIRED: “Between the enterprising nature of Big Tech and the wide range of tactics in play, it seems inevitable that someday, somehow, e… 2022-03-15 04:55:29 RT @Jessicalessin: Thrilled to welcome editor extraordinaire @ScottThurm to our all-star editing team at @theinformation. Few know the tech… 2022-03-14 21:05:29 RT @KaraPlatoni: Ukraine is a major host for medical clinical trials -- but the war has scattered patients and disrupted trials. Not only… 2022-03-14 17:32:02 Excited to start today as a senior editor at @theinformation, reuniting with some former colleagues and anxious to meet new ones 2022-03-12 08:11:00 CAFIAC FIX 2022-01-24 21:51:51 RT @LaurenGoode: "In 2021, more than 5.4 million applications for new businesses were filed, according to the US Census Bureau. That’s 23 p… 2022-01-24 16:57:59 RT @DannyGroner: @ScottThurm @pardesoteric Good story. 2022-01-24 16:20:37 Boosted by the pandemic (and pandemic-related layoffs) the number of new businesses is soaring https://t.co/hSjvfHBKON via @pardesoteric https://t.co/bGFH5x5Q0v 2022-01-24 16:13:49 There's a big impediment to more widespread adoption of EVs: shortage of charging stations in cities https://t.co/FUGpaRuBmo via @AarianMarshall @mrMattSimon 2022-01-24 13:39:47 RT @WIRED: Automakers are shovelling billions into electrification with the promise that this generation of cars will be cleaner. But when… 2022-01-21 23:33:43 RT @digiphile: In 2000, Congress directed @TheJusticeDept to track how many people die when they interact with police & 2022-01-21 19:34:48 RT @TashaBernal: 'Behind this decision is an assumption that users on all three social media sites want to be involved in buying, selling,… 2022-01-21 17:18:24 RT @tsimonite: "The robot costs the equivalent of $8 per hour, compared with a minimum wage of $15 per hour for a human employee...[the com… 2022-01-21 00:16:10 RT @culanth: (A good quick write-up on how Google searches shape available information is available here) https://t.co/HMeqvrnx4l 2022-01-20 18:23:00 Course for a Peloton ride? No, $PTON stock https://t.co/eqLSIrIhrP 2022-01-20 17:29:48 Bottom line: Abortion is increasingly for poor women of color, who tend not to be tech employees, hence not as much internal pressure on tech execs 2022-01-20 17:29:11 Read this from @FiveThirtyEight https://t.co/FsjippMPih about who gets abortions as a companion to our piece today about the silence from tech companies: https://t.co/AoEvhQ6bh0 2022-01-20 17:16:30 RT @ianbremmer: US lagging behind all major developed economies in vaccination https://t.co/QBHzNY0ON8 2022-01-20 16:40:23 Big tech has been outspoken on LGBTQ issues, #BLM, and voting rights. But it's "notably silent" on new laws restricting abortion https://t.co/OlzNJzYAXU via @caitharr 2022-01-20 16:37:58 Sam Zeloof is a 22-year-old senior at Carnegie Mellon. In his spare time, he makes semiconductors in his parents' garage https://t.co/agPjjO7UE5 via @tsimonite 2022-01-19 23:11:00 RT @tsimonite: When your garlic oysters arrive without garlic, Chinese ecommerce giant Meituan will pass your complaint to a "kangaroo jury… 2022-01-19 21:26:56 RT @wiredunion: The WIRED Union is proud of our many contractual wins after months of bargaining with Conde Nast. But some of the issues cl… 2022-01-19 20:05:27 RT @BrandyZadrozny: About this. I write about regular people impacted by tech. I have a credo on this beat: I never want a regular person t… 2022-01-19 19:31:32 Unity makes tools developers use to make video games. Now, it's taking its tools to the real world, making digital recreations of roller coasters to see when people might fall off https://t.co/JJwL2VCHJe via @cecianasta 2022-01-18 23:42:25 RT @willknight: My latest story: how "robotics-as-a-service," or paying for robots by the hour, can help smaller companies take the leap in… 2022-01-18 17:49:40 The US Inches Toward Building EV Batteries at Home https://t.co/DRanKsMYMU via @GregoryJBarber 2022-01-18 16:14:55 Soup too cold? Not what you ordered? Chinese tech firms enlist groups of users to resolve disputes in "people's courts" https://t.co/tSzat8A4QL via @jenniferconrad 2022-01-18 16:13:22 Polar Manufacturing rents robots for the equivalent of $8 an hour to load metal into a press to be shaped. Paying a person to do the same job would cost $15 an hour. https://t.co/oNbnzSIjlF via @willknight 2022-01-18 15:47:25 RT @donmoyn: Confirmation: Gorsuch refused to mask up when asked to by Chief Justice Roberts, even though he sits beside Sotomayor who is e… 2022-01-18 13:26:05 RT @TaniaGlezAZ: The US Inches Toward Building EV Batteries at Home https://t.co/v09e8FUs2E 2022-01-17 14:40:07 RT @TashaBernal: NEW: Gig workers were promised more rights to deflect potential EU regulation... but companies don't want to employ them.… 2022-01-17 08:11:00 CAFIAC FIX 2022-01-12 17:51:56 RT @_CleoKrejci: This is why we need local reporters! I’m the only person left at the school board meeting tonight. It’s 8:44 p.m. https://… 2022-01-12 12:45:28 RT @WIREDBusiness: The central Asian country became No. 2 in the world for Bitcoin mining. But political turmoil and power cuts have hit ha… 2022-01-11 15:41:23 RT @reckless: A MOVEMENT. I love it. https://t.co/hyhRhQWxFQ 2022-01-11 08:11:00 CAFIAC FIX 2022-01-05 19:17:16 @danprimack @davidmwessel @carolynryan Someone must have scored! 2022-01-05 19:01:03 Interesting list (read the second tweet as well) https://t.co/yA18SZlSH5 2022-01-05 00:54:48 RT @schrep: We are going to see autonomous technology appear in farms, on rail, in the water, in the air and in cargo before it becomes com… 2022-01-04 23:54:01 RT @hypervisible: Deere's CTO: "“We've now figured out how to decouple the labor from the machine...Unlike in the days of the plow, the far… 2022-01-04 23:02:28 RT @ThePlumLineGS: A perverse dynamic: Because total GOP opposition to protecting democracy is a foregone conclusion, it becomes accepted… 2022-01-04 22:57:02 RT @marceelias: This is the threat we face. It is not theoretical, it is not academic, and it is not off in the distant future. Congress… 2022-01-04 21:29:29 RT @LaurenGoode: Fascinating story abt John Deere's newest ag tech, via @willknight. Autonomous tractor will gather data about soil as it… 2022-01-04 21:06:19 John Deere just unveiled its first fully autonomous tractor, which is sure to ignite debate around control over the data it harvests https://t.co/v2VyTuTfW7 via @willknight 2022-01-04 00:46:05 The 4 counts on which Elizabeth Holmes was convicted each carry a possible maximum sentence of 20 years https://t.co/RFsppvTvNw via @pardesoteric 2022-01-03 17:00:27 RT @Sparkes: @ScottThurm @GregoryJBarber @cadyvoge It’s not Bitcoin though, is it? It’s a weird bastardised state version of it running on… 2022-01-03 16:52:54 It's more than a little ironic that the first test of bitcoin, which is supposed to free us from bankers and governments, as a national currency, is in El Salvador, with its increasingly autocratic ruler https://t.co/eWj514KEsw via @GregoryJBarber @cadyvoge 2021-12-28 12:44:53 RT @WIREDBusiness: Natural Fiber Welding uses an innovative process to treat cotton and make it behave more like synthetic fibers. https://… 2021-12-28 12:43:58 RT @EthicsInAI: Autonomous Weapons Are Here, but the World Isn’t Ready for Them https://t.co/si7L0zChFj via @wired 2021-12-27 18:54:30 There’s an intense war going on over online obituaries https://t.co/Q9pcZMYrsl via @wired 2021-12-27 08:20:00 CAFIAC FIX 2021-11-06 23:20:00 CAFIAC FIX 2021-12-21 00:30:24 RT @markchediak: In the latest twist - > 2021-12-19 20:16:28 This was the year when the world learned that lethal autonomous weapons had moved from a futuristic worry to a battlefield reality. It’s also the year when policymakers failed to agree on what to do about it.https://t.co/NiWFsojuOr via @willknight 2021-12-18 14:10:03 Depressing perspective on climate change https://t.co/tGqWDZcv4Z 2021-12-18 11:47:52 @CRTejada May his memory be a blessing. Carlos was one of the good ones. 2021-12-16 20:49:47 Read with this: https://t.co/Q9DTNybAAT https://t.co/nXHAxOazkt 2021-12-16 20:04:09 The US Transportation Dept wants states not to build new highways with the $$ in the infrastructure bill https://t.co/V7rMBgvilx via @AarianMarshall 2021-12-10 16:50:24 The Gig Economy’s Days in Europe Are Numbered https://t.co/6ShtmUOxWi via @MORGANMEAKER 2021-12-08 21:48:34 Facebook—again—says it has #AI to attack its content moderation problem. Will this system work any better, or is the problem simply too big? https://t.co/CoDjbtxDSP via @tsimonite 2021-12-08 20:07:55 Read. This. Thread. https://t.co/LdXO0Yz6nP 2021-12-08 18:06:59 Companies are racing to build wind farms and solar arrays, but the grid often can't handle the energy https://t.co/6pgCiEhBkk via @GregoryJBarber 2021-12-08 13:57:49 RT @ira_joseph: So glad you researched this point. It’s been bugging me this whole time. It helps explain some of the gas demand inelastici… 2021-12-06 17:22:24 The infrastructure bill included $2B to improve broadband service for Native peoples. It won't be enough to close the digital divide https://t.co/vLKzH6oRkj via @sidneyfussell 2021-12-06 17:21:11 DoorDash is hiring employees—not gig workers—as it gets into instant delivery https://t.co/jLY2rPr6Z1 via @AarianMarshall 2021-12-06 16:57:06 RT @Carlos_Frias: My dad still gets these scare-tactic mailers from the @NRA — even though he was murdered last year at age 92 by a man wit… 2021-12-05 21:50:07 RT @rzhongnotes: Good morning. For @WIRED, I wrote about peng shuai and the endgame for censorship of #MeToo in China, and why the pain inf… 2021-12-03 19:15:52 RT @jacknicas: NEW: Brazil’s vast northeast is, in effect, turning into a desert. The phenomenon is called desertification, and it's a nat… 2021-12-02 21:55:45 RT @peter_ackerson: Audit and Compliance of AI is an interesting use case. Who’s building here @dionlisle? 2021-12-02 17:26:54 RT @dionlisle: Fascinating look at the ethics of AI, not sure why we thought if AI is built by people it would not have the same bias as pe… 2021-12-02 17:23:54 Talk to @caitharr, leak to @caitharr, read @caitharr https://t.co/g1roMF3oCD 2021-12-02 17:20:08 The headlines and tweets on this @themarkup @Gizmodo investigation are damning, but read the whole piece, which is more nuanced https://t.co/lSY59wOGQz 2021-12-02 16:59:12 RT @BooneAshworth: There's a guy in New Zealand who spends months tracking wildfires in California. His account, @CAFireScanner, is a lifel… 2021-12-02 16:57:01 RT @_KarenHao: In 2018 the DOJ launched an initiative to crackdown on Chinese economic espionage. In 2021 the 1st case to go to trial revea… 2021-12-02 16:45:46 ICYMI, here's @tsimonite 's longread on the Gebru saga (from June): https://t.co/gzfojHbriX 2021-12-02 16:44:48 On the anniversary of her firing by Google, @timnitgebru starts a new research institute to examine #AI https://t.co/oNd4DMeTwE via @tsimonite 2021-12-02 16:42:57 NYCity is requiring audits of algorithms used in hiring and promotion. Others will soon follow suit, amid a push for more scrutiny over #AI https://t.co/XBkjbJkumJ via @kharijohnson 2021-12-02 13:27:56 RT @WIRED: One year ago, Google artificial intelligence researcher Timnit Gebru tweeted, “I was fired”. Now, she has launched a research in… 2021-12-02 12:28:42 RT @WIREDBusiness: A New York City law requires algorithms used in hiring to be “audited” for bias. It’s the first in the US—and part of a… 2021-12-02 02:20:18 @meharris Proves you found the right guy! 2021-12-01 19:29:07 Gig work is prevalent at startups. A new crop of delivery companies decided they needed real employees in order to satisfy customers https://t.co/TtedUejn8S via @AarianMarshall 2021-12-01 19:20:46 RT @jtemperton: On November 25, two planes took off from South Africa bound for Amsterdam. By the time they landed, the Omicron variant mea… 2021-12-01 18:59:00 RT @ianbremmer: % of Americans who Say Supreme Court should uphold Roe v. Wade 60% Oppose state legislation making it harder for clini… 2021-12-01 17:04:23 RT @BGrueskin: From the archives, Aug 21, 2018, under the headline, "Roe Is ‘Settled Law,’ Kavanaugh Tells Sen. Collins" https://t.co/0iMt… 2021-12-01 17:01:10 RT @marynmck: "Omicron is a spark that should not distract us from the fact that we're already in a burning building,” @firefoxx66 tells @g… 2021-12-01 16:04:32 RT @waitbutwhy: There should be a high school class called “Internet Skills” that teaches things like: - being smart about privacy and sec… 2021-12-01 12:47:33 RT @WIRED: Things are already weird, and they're going to get a whole lot weirder really fast. So we decided to use the release of The Matr… 2021-11-26 13:39:49 RT @WIRED: Amazon’s prototype robots are still not capable of doing the most challenging work inside its fulfillment centers: picking produ… 2021-11-22 18:20:40 RT @AriBerman: Breaking: Georgia legislature passes gerrymandered Congressional map giving GOP 64% of seats in state Biden won with 49.5%.… 2021-11-19 20:32:11 Yesterday, we told you about Google's efforts to win Pentagon contracts. https://t.co/TZUqncfl77 Today, Google was invited to bid for one of the biggest ones yet, the successor to JEDI https://t.co/IaxKd5JSsQ 2021-11-19 13:24:01 Democracy in retreat, again via @NYTimes https://t.co/u9zptMGDQ9 2021-11-18 21:42:39 RT @betswrites: An evolutionary biologist’s reconstruction ties the #Covid-19's likely origin to a Wuhan market and concludes the virus lik… 2021-11-18 21:39:33 RT @jason_kint: whoa. from the outside looking in, Amazon's reputation has always appeared strong on data protection and security. this Wir… 2021-11-18 17:19:41 RT @brbarrett: While everyone was (rightly!) focused on Facebook's data privacy, Amazon was all the way out here https://t.co/jrzNGruV5R ht… 2021-11-18 16:45:48 Norway's incentives for EVs have worked so well that the country is running out of conventional cars to tax https://t.co/FsQ4Yfphrn via @MORGANMEAKER 2021-11-18 16:44:43 Google has won a surprising number of defense contracts in the 3 years since it withdrew from Project Maven. It's angling for more https://t.co/TZUqncwVYF via @tsimonite 2021-11-18 12:56:02 RT @WIRED: When it comes to sales of electric cars, Norway is in a league of its own. But the success of Norway’s electric dream has create… 2021-11-18 00:48:15 RT @ryanjreilly: You can spend months reviewing Jan. 6 footage and still come across visuals that just hit you like a bus. https://t.co/tUo… 2021-11-17 16:07:54 RT @aaronsojourner: For every $ a firm benefits from these corporate tax break, compensation of the firm's top 5 highest paid executives in… 2021-11-17 13:16:16 RT @ShiraOvide: It's a good day to revive this 2001 @ScottThurm tale about the jinx for companies that put their names on sports stadiums.… 2021-11-16 15:16:06 Now that EVs are selling in real numbers, a market for used EVs is emerging. Congress is considering juicing the market https://t.co/IYws9Hte8A via @AarianMarshall @GregoryJBarber https://t.co/6xvWYQPOkF 2021-11-15 21:11:48 RT @UW_CSTV: #AI needs to be slowed down while policy, ethics, and accountability are integrated into its development https://t.co/zTCoKmse… 2021-11-15 21:11:15 RT @amitkatwala: Wrote a fun story for @WIRED about some new research that tested heat shield materials for spacecraft by jamming them into… 2021-11-15 16:12:23 An interesting look at the sleuths trying to police the Wild West of DeFi by sniffing out and identifying scams https://t.co/Bm4EJRG81a via @Gmvolpi 2021-11-15 12:30:48 RT @WIREDBusiness: Open source investigators are struggling to maintain law and order in the wildest recesses of cryptocurrency’s Wild West… 2021-11-14 21:40:25 A Black Woman Invented Home Security. Why Did It Go So Wrong? https://t.co/gxNQgecM9L via @wired 2021-11-12 17:54:59 TikTok is connecting users to people they know in real life, with surprising and sometimes unhappy consequences https://t.co/NUkem93B6x via @lmatsakis 2021-11-12 16:21:16 Why are chips still scarce 2 years into the pandemic? Demand is soaring. It takes years to build new factories. The makers of the inexpensive chips most in demand are hesitant to invest b/c they've been burned in past cycles https://t.co/OA2tmK9z6F via @willknight 2021-11-12 15:49:43 RT @lmatsakis: For @WIRED, I wrote about one of the craziest engagement tactics I've ever seen: By default, TikTok now shares your profile… 2021-11-11 17:40:06 RT @davidsirota: people paid millions of dollars to do nothing other than sit around and bloviate on television one hour a day are now publ… 2021-11-11 15:47:29 Companies are rushing to apply #AI in all sorts of ways. But sometimes it doesn't work as planned—and that can cause trouble https://t.co/bYJHVzYZGy via @tsimonite 2021-11-11 15:45:31 Zillow's Zestimate is a bible of home values. But when the company applied its algorithm to flipping homes, it flopped https://t.co/i8kQvbJnJU via @stokel 2021-11-11 13:14:31 RT @WIREDBusiness: Under pressure to make their sites accessible to visually impaired users, firms turn to software. But advocates say the… 2021-11-11 13:11:18 RT @WIRED: Zillow's Zestimate of home values has become a go-to reference for US homeowners. But when Zillow tried to use its algorithm to… 2021-11-11 01:00:35 RT @DianeSwonk: Shortage of workers? We lost a lot of immigrant (mostly legal) workers since 2016. https://t.co/nwMZVvYfLk 2021-11-10 16:55:06 RT @ShenLucinda: Rivian's IPO is the largest U.S. one since Facebook's in 2012. But $FB posted revenue of $3.7b in the year preceding its… 2021-11-09 21:32:06 @lisabannon @cglancey @anfuller @ForsythJenn @melissakorn @Tawnell If @lisabannon writes a leder, it is most definitely worth reading 2021-11-09 21:07:17 At RE:WIRED, @timnitgebru says #AI needs to slow down https://t.co/riAB5hLIgs via @laxmevy 2021-11-09 20:38:40 @joshrogin @prchovanec @TaiwanNews886 Surprise to whom? 2021-11-09 16:32:17 Buy now pay later apps (think Affirm, Afterpay, Klarna) are exploding—alongside concern from consumer advocates, who see old tropes in new clothing https://t.co/NlDNt6PTee via @sidneyfussell 2021-11-09 16:30:41 Sure, there's money for highways. But the infrastructure bill also has $$ for pedestrians, transit, broadband, and others https://t.co/2xjjUM7i4P via @AarianMarshall 2021-11-08 18:00:54 RT @danielas_bot: Let's get salty: https://t.co/GjK2RiP9vQ 2021-11-08 16:36:39 Pretty much every EV battery now is based on lithium. But some big players are beginning to think about cheaper, more abundant, almost-as-good sodium. Read why https://t.co/K9bT78iu9y via @GregoryJBarber 2021-11-06 23:20:00 CAFIAC FIX 2021-11-06 19:50:00 CAFIAC FIX 2021-11-06 18:59:00 CAFIAC FIX 2021-11-02 15:35:48 And the hunt is on for designs and materials that would make the batteries more recyclable, reducing the need to mine rare minerals in corners of the earth https://t.co/OWp3wE9KeX 2021-11-02 15:34:11 When the batteries can no longer power a car, they're still good for other things, especially backup/auxiliary power. An array of used batteries in southern Calif stores energy from a solar farm to be pumped back tot he grid https://t.co/R8dmH04jtt 2021-11-02 15:32:02 The battery packs are heavy, contain toxic materials, and can spark fires https://t.co/cqcfp8NddQ 2021-11-02 15:30:14 As the shift to electric vehicles accelerates, there's little discussion of the fate of the 8-foot-long, 1000-pound batteries when they die @aarianmarshall @gregoryjbarber with 3 stories explaining the problem and potential solutions https://t.co/FNyKTUmzvT via @wired 2021-11-01 19:20:00 CAFIAC FIX 2021-11-01 17:30:00 CAFIAC FIX 2021-10-15 04:10:15 RT @chelsea_janes: If baseball is broken, don't fix it. 2021-10-14 21:17:54 Even censoring content in China wasn't enough to save LinkedIn https://t.co/ZqN6I1BsPW via @willknight 2021-10-14 16:57:21 When a healthcare IT company with > 2021-10-14 16:53:40 RT @natebecker: A Post-Dispatch journalist noticed a problem with a Missouri state website that was exposing more than 100K teachers’ socia… 2021-10-14 15:29:33 RT @JuliaAngwin: Amazon says it doesn’t put its house brands first in search results. But we ran the numbers and … Math says being an… 2021-10-14 15:28:56 RT @hari: COVID-19 was the leading cause of death for 35-54 year olds last month - by @JaredOrtaliza @_KendalOrgera @KrutikaAmin @cynthiacc… 2021-10-14 15:23:51 Cutting edge #AI sounds great. But it can also be too expensive, even for big companies https://t.co/TJNEAq4F5s via @willknight 2021-10-12 16:57:47 RT @AarianMarshall: Get those credit cards ready because https://t.co/gfM2j93yN7 2021-10-12 16:23:38 Carmakers are like everyone else: They want recurring subscription revenue https://t.co/C6hs1Lkc6e via @AarianMarshall 2021-10-12 14:48:19 RT @KarlBode: interesting how we're increasingly making privacy a luxury option, while ensuring that poorer kids see greater surveillance a… 2021-10-12 11:53:27 RT @WIREDBusiness: GM thinks consumers might pay $135 a month for emergency assistance, enhanced maps, and software-enabled upgrades that b… 2021-10-11 17:17:25 RT @pardesoteric: It's a strange time to be a female founder. On the one hand, there's more capital available than ever. On the other hand,… 2021-10-11 17:10:14 RT @pbaker: One thing every company can do, including @nytimes , @washingtonpost , @salesforce , is to eliminate the Facebook sign in. Thi… 2021-10-11 01:16:05 If that's a double, what's to stop a fielder from picking up the ball and throwing it over the fence? Total BS 2021-10-10 13:23:38 RT @WIRED: In a recent conversation, Robin Carnahan, the administrator of the General Services Administration, discussed her plans to smoot… 2021-10-08 19:30:47 @risj_oxford @vermontgmg @mariaressa Chills listening to this 2021-10-08 16:10:57 California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill that protects employees who speak out about discrimination, even if they've signed an NDA. Former Pinterest employee Ifeoma Ozoma was an architect of the law. Read about her here https://t.co/hzHALiet24 via @wired 2021-10-08 15:28:47 These robots are simulated. But their lessons helped teach a real robot to climb stairs https://t.co/FZ1jV4o9tU via @willknight 2021-10-07 23:39:05 RT @jowens510: Tesla is moving its headquarters to a state that does not allow it to sell its cars there, and leaving a state that has give… 2021-10-07 23:38:16 RT @vermontgmg: When you think about it, Trump advocating that America not bother to pay the bills Trump ran up as president is actually on… 2021-10-07 16:45:47 RT @CenDemTech: .@elizabethan, in @WIRED: "There are certain groups of students, more likely those attending lower-income schools, who are… 2021-10-07 15:59:47 All those laptops schools distributed last year, mostly to lower-income kids? Many of them had monitoring software. Just try opening a 3rd tab!! https://t.co/vztZXq6FO9 via @sidneyfussell 2021-10-07 15:57:57 World domination? Check. Just have a robot string these cables here, and install some high-tech Wi-Fi there... https://t.co/ooXFZHjQAL via @laurengoode 2021-10-06 21:27:22 Are the people in this photo real? Read the fascinating answer https://t.co/GspqmFm9yl via @tsimonite https://t.co/UrsxZWpdYY 2021-10-06 21:21:31 RT @Jonasbendiksen: Wired magazine reports in-depth on The Book of Veles @jf_leroy @duckrabbitblog @MagnumPhotos @GOST_Books @WIREDPhoto h… 2021-10-06 15:30:34 Your must read story of the day: The photographer who set out to capture creators of fake news in Macedonia, and wound up revealing disturbing truths about photography https://t.co/GspqmFm9yl via @tsimonite 2021-10-04 17:23:17 RT @kashhill: While Clearview AI navigates lawsuits, international investigations, local bans on facial recognition... it just keeps on kee… 2021-10-04 16:36:48 RT @LaurenGoode: In today's episode of what could go wrong: "The company’s cofounder and CEO, Hoan Ton-That, tells WIRED that Clearview has… 2021-10-04 15:27:20 Clearview AI has been sued and pilloried. But it's still scraping photos and it's got new tools to better identify you https://t.co/a6yWa0p4jw via @willknight 2021-10-04 14:57:02 RT @onekade: An image not good enough to run through facial recognition? No worries! Just make shit up! https://t.co/qZ364W5L2j https://t.c… 2021-10-04 11:49:49 RT @WIREDBusiness: In an interview with WIRED, CEO Hoan Ton-That said the company has scraped 10 billion photos from the web—and developed… 2021-10-04 04:17:44 RT @WIRED: An AI researcher was scanning an online computer science bibliography when he noticed something odd—his name listed as a coautho… 2021-09-30 20:27:51 The Facebook hearing was more theater of the absurd https://t.co/nSri08Qlho via @GiladEdelman 2021-09-30 19:25:28 A legend. He will be missed. https://t.co/uEG5TfntH3 2021-09-30 16:20:44 The backstory on the increasing use of geofence warrants in all sorts of cases here: https://t.co/Yox5ZqBKgQ 2021-09-30 16:19:46 Police made extensive use of geofence warrants to ID Jan 6 rioters https://t.co/DnXzZSg3aR via @meharris 2021-09-30 16:17:41 Google is incorporating its most sophisticated #AI into search. That will help bring visual and text search together. But it also could propagate biases in the machine https://t.co/pl9hjzO2F1 via @kharijohnson 2021-09-30 15:04:17 RT @RMac18: Watching the Facebook hearing and it's worth noting the co sent a lieutenant instead of a leader. Instagram head Adam Mosseri h… 2021-09-30 15:01:04 RT @ShiraOvide: Look, we can debate what "profitable" means but: 2020 by @mekosoff: The co-CEO "told me that Warby Parker has been profita… 2021-09-30 14:48:23 RT @meharris: New from me: How the FBI used @Google geofence warrants to build a searchable database of the January 6 Capitol rioters. htt… 2021-09-30 14:42:45 RT @sladesr: This, right here, is why Section 230 matters. 2021-09-30 02:28:45 RT @Megankstack: An increasingly small pool of actual reporters are feeding an increasingly large and mostly parasitic mass of commentators… 2021-09-29 21:46:19 RT @chrislhayes: There is no existing debt problem. There is an instrument to price the risk of the "debt problem", it's ****literally the… 2021-09-29 21:25:08 RT @WIRED: Law enforcement has served geofence warrants to Google since 2016, but the company has detailed for the first time exactly how m… 2021-09-29 20:51:27 RT @GiladEdelman: Read @kharijohnson on Droney Appleseed https://t.co/qZOmpBz96I 2021-09-29 20:50:37 Come work with me! We're expanding our team covering the big tech platforms. https://t.co/pEFYUDYXmp 2021-09-29 16:55:26 RT @kharijohnson: I learned that most of the top 10 largest wildfires in California history happened in roughly the past year while reporti… 2021-09-29 16:36:55 RT @JuliaAngwin: Interesting that Facebook is trying to refute WSJ reporting by relying on a survey of 2,600 teens. When we reported data… 2021-09-29 15:03:10 RT @eisingerj: Amazing stat: The FTC has 600 fewer staffers than in 1979. Bonkers. Via this good story on the start of @linakhanFTC’s te… 2021-09-28 18:52:26 The FAA & 2021-09-28 14:43:52 RT @ZoeSchiffer: Apple has publicly called for Congress to pass a Clean Energy Standard. Privately, it’s part of a "massive lobbying blitz"… 2021-09-28 03:45:51 RT @WIRED: Machines have proved adept at many steps in making clothes, from printing textiles to cutting fabric & 2021-09-28 03:45:09 RT @ProfFerguson: Alternative headline: Police Break the Law on Surveillance Tech https://t.co/BIXt6mIoyo 2021-09-27 19:07:32 RT @gelliottmorris: I don't really get it... the Texas GOP unveils a redistricting plan that gives them a 65/35 R split of seats (when 2020… 2021-09-27 15:33:40 Startups have designs on planting a billion trees by scattering seeds from drones. But there's little evidence the technique works https://t.co/gRMAeSUhPM via @kharijohnson 2021-09-27 15:32:32 Machines can print textiles, cut fabric and fold and package finished garments. But robots are struggling to sew. A story from our Resilience Resident Harris Quinn https://t.co/Tl1RVuyYYb via @wired 2021-09-27 15:04:07 RT @kharijohnson: Companies are promising to plant a billion trees or more with drones to make a positive impact on climate change, wildfir… 2021-09-27 11:33:27 RT @WIREDBusiness: Machines can print textiles, cut fabric, and fold clothes. But it’s hard to train them to sew as fast and precisely as h… 2021-09-25 23:16:35 Memories of 1978… 2021-09-25 18:14:23 RT @ACasadevall1: The mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 were not developed overnight. In 2020 humanity reaped the benefits of decades of basic… 2021-09-25 00:45:23 RT @WIRED: “When you’re a first-generation college student, there are going to be some things in your life you can’t turn to your family fo… 2021-09-24 15:31:33 Doctors are beginning to grapple with the profession's history of racism. The latest: Kidney doctors will ditch an algorithm that made it harder for blacks to get treatment, including transplants https://t.co/m7gUpUZb2L via @tsimonite 2021-09-24 11:56:22 RT @BGrueskin: Damn. This @pbump lede is excellent https://t.co/h0Jok2sNDB https://t.co/v5qd234MGx 2021-09-23 21:10:46 RT @DanPriceSeattle: Dick's burgers in Seattle just upped its minimum wage to $19. It gives workers free health care, 3 weeks paid vacation… 2021-09-23 20:28:16 Last year, we reported that the algorithm for assessing kidney disease effectively blocked Black patients from some treatments: https://t.co/7xcyBE28RN Now, 2 medical groups have proposed a new formula without race https://t.co/m7gUpUZb2L via @tsimonite 2021-09-21 15:30:24 There are legitimate concerns about deepfakes. But the tech may also have beneficial uses, such as altering the voices of trans gamers to reduce harassment @tsimonite explains https://t.co/IDLiOhOPI5 via @wired 2021-09-20 23:29:02 RT @willknight: My latest story for @wired: AI that generates computer code is picking up bad habits. GitHub's Copilot, trained on millions… 2021-09-20 21:11:36 #AI learns from people—including our mistakes. So AI-generated code is buggy https://t.co/uo5u9oas6J via @willknight 2021-09-20 20:29:25 RT @GideonGil: Despite all the advances of modern medicine, from ventilators to vaccines, #Covid19 is set to overtake the 1918 Spanish flu… 2021-09-20 16:26:29 RT @lilyhnewman: Apple and Google defied the Russian government's requests for weeks until voting started, giving the Navalny app a chance… 2021-09-20 15:59:11 NYU researchers found that 40% of code written by #AI had security flaws https://t.co/uo5u9oas6J via @willknight 2021-09-14 23:40:38 Revealing thread... https://t.co/3fprVNH1qV 2021-09-14 22:48:01 RT @adriennemso: I've had a lot of thoughts this past year about bikes, and ebikes, and regret and loss and time. Thank you @sarahfallon an… 2021-09-14 16:36:03 RT @marceelias: My latest on the new Freedom to Vote Act. "Put simply, if the new bill is enacted, more citizens will be able to registe… 2021-09-14 16:27:08 Stanford researchers declared some #AI models "foundational." The criticism began immediately https://t.co/H9qOHY6IuG via @willknight 2021-09-14 15:38:13 RT @JStein_WaPo: Absolutely incredible: Census says poverty rate **fell** in 2020 ***during one of the worst labor market shocks in US hist… 2021-09-13 19:07:22 RT @CT_Bergstrom: An excellent story from @GregoryJBarber for @Wired on why it's so hard to know where the COVID pandemic is headed next:… 2021-09-12 13:00:30 RT @arlenparsa: After Delta Airlines told its employees they would get charged $2,400/year if they didn't get the free vaccine, they had...… 2021-09-10 15:02:19 RT @danengber: When this study found that ivermectin didn't work for COVID, people got mad. But when it showed that a *different* cheap, re… 2021-09-10 13:34:51 RT @JamesSurowiecki: Covid has now killed more Americans in 18 months than all the wars of the 20th century combined. And people are out he… 2021-09-10 11:51:03 RT @ASlavitt: Over 5.5 billion vaccines have been administered around the world. Think about this from a safety standpoint. Rare things hap… 2021-09-09 23:25:22 RT @WIRED: Recent advances in AI have made it possible for algorithms to learn some of the dark arts involved in chip design which should h… 2021-09-09 23:13:55 RT @ClaraJeffery: This cannot be said enough: "All 50 states mandate vaccines for school attendance, such as those that protect against p… 2021-09-09 23:13:07 Most countries are expanding access to abortion. Not the US. https://t.co/4xRMVzmhui 2021-09-09 20:56:03 RT @RMac18: Facebook sent reporters covering their glasses launch a list of supposed "third-party" privacy and consumer groups that it cons… 2021-09-09 19:46:29 RT @WIREDBusiness: For years, algorithms have driven workers to meet punishing quotas. A state bill trying to reinject humans into the work… 2021-09-09 18:05:38 RT @lilyhnewman: fascinating that in practice the Texas abortion ban encourages online behavior that's in violation of even the most basic/… 2021-09-09 16:10:44 RT @FoxCahn: I’m so grateful to @WIRED and the amazing and generous @zakjason for giving me the space to reflect on this painful anniversar… 2021-09-09 15:51:58 RT @EmilyRPeck: Another reason women can't get back to work -- there is a shortage of childcare workers. New analysis here: https://t.co/ZB… 2021-09-08 18:18:25 RT @backchnnl: Even the most extreme internet infrastructure providers have turned their backs on the website for violating their terms of… 2021-09-08 18:15:26 RT @WIRED: Supply disruptions caused by the pandemic and an intensifying technology rivalry with China are prompting industry executives an… 2021-09-08 17:19:13 RT @JoannaStern: We made 31 TikTok accounts registered as teenagers to see what the app shows young users. Some got an unending reel of v… 2021-09-08 15:13:55 The US's #AI capabilities are dangerously concentrated in the Bay Area, Brookings says @markmuro https://t.co/R4L7NGhbjW via @kharijohnson 2021-09-08 14:48:35 RT @MarkMuro1: The geography of AI: Which cities will drive the #artificialintelligence revolution? | New research with @Sifan_Liu https:… 2021-09-08 11:34:43 RT @WIREDBusiness: A new study illustrates just how geographically concentrated AI activity has become. https://t.co/ozMrbwZqGU 2021-09-07 17:24:03 Fascinating read on a woman in San Jose on a one-person campaign to purge Nazi glorification from Wikipedia https://t.co/cOL0TCqn3P via @wired 2021-09-07 17:00:28 Tesla designed a chip just to train its self-driving algorithm. Sounds crazy, but maybe not, says @willknight https://t.co/LPAGhpX7FE via @wired 2021-09-04 00:59:20 RT @KaraPlatoni: Temperatures are in the 90s, and the power is out. For a month. @mrMattSimon on the heat disaster in New Orleans, for @WI… 2021-09-04 00:58:15 RT @RMac18: A Facebook recommendation feature powered by AI categorized a video of Black men as "about Primates." It caused uproar & 2021-09-04 00:54:42 RT @Riana_Crypto: I'm quoted in @WIRED about Apple's hitting "pause" today on its planned child safety features, along with @alexstamos @ma… 2021-09-03 23:02:18 RT @heckmanequation: In the longest follow-up of any experimentally evaluated #ECE program, research finds that Perry Preschool participant… 2021-09-03 22:41:26 RT @nytimes: Ledell Lee was executed by lethal injection in Arkansas in 2017. Four years later, new DNA testing revealed that genetic mater… 2021-09-03 16:57:03 RT @WIRED: The impact of Hurricane Ida is forcing New York City to take a good look at its infrastructure and how the city should be prepar… 2021-09-03 16:12:17 Late to this, but this story on racial disparities in mortgage lending is tremendous (and depressing) https://t.co/f6lcBKzW3r 2021-09-03 15:34:55 NY spent $$ after Sandy to better protect the subways. But most of the $$ went to protect against water from rivers. This week, the water came from the sky https://t.co/hrhIpDlkAV via @AarianMarshall @mrMattSimon 2021-09-03 15:01:17 RT @raminskibba: Here it is!! Check out my first story for @WIRED! What an exciting first week. Keep up the good work, Perseverance! https:… 2021-09-01 16:02:48 RT @susieneilson: 53,000+ people are under evacuation orders due to the Caldor Fire. As California's wildfire seasons worsen, living in fir… 2021-09-01 16:01:52 Proposed EU rules call for tightly regulating "high risk" #AI. But what's high risk? @kharijohnson looks at the intense lobbying https://t.co/qwMmsnA5mh via @wired 2021-09-01 12:13:50 RT @WIREDBusiness: Everyone from tech companies to churches wants a say in how the EU regulates AI that could harm people. https://t.co/iW4… 2021-08-31 23:22:32 RT @brbarrett: 840,000 people in Louisiana still don't have power, and it'll take weeks to get everything back up and running https://t.co/… 2021-08-31 21:50:08 RT @GiladEdelman: Whatever you think of this particular policy change, it's nice to see Facebook acknowledge that what people engage with i… 2021-08-31 18:04:04 “Content moderators’ job is an impossible one.” The Silent Partner Cleaning Up Facebook for $500 Million a Year https://t.co/b9Fan7HYeE 2021-08-31 15:00:29 RT @marynmck: Full FDA approval for the Pfizer vaccine ignited arguments about using it off-label — to vaccinate kids for whom it isn’t ye… 2021-08-30 22:22:00 RT @CenterOnBudget: Some very good news: In the 6 weeks after the federal government began issuing monthly payments of the expanded #ChildT… 2021-08-30 17:15:59 RT @STOPSpyingNY: .@sidneyfussell breaks down the disturbing findings from @Google's transparency report on geofence warrants, data publicl… 2021-08-30 16:06:32 Geofence warrants are an increasingly common law enforcement tool. Requests to Google rose 10x over two years, from 941 in 2018 to 11,033 in 2020 https://t.co/p0eY0niv8N via @sidneyfussell 2021-08-30 16:02:59 Advances in tech ultimately depend on faster, smarter chips. Faster, smarter chips mean squeezing more transistors onto a sliver of silicon (for now). Dutch company ASML is the world's best at the squeezing part. @willknight explains https://t.co/ITCnHzz2oY via @wired 2021-08-20 17:25:01 Tesla showed off some #AI smarts and promised a robot. But it was really just a recruiting pitch https://t.co/pK8buuPuwj via @AarianMarshall 2021-08-19 17:46:45 RT @staffsmartinc: We have been so focused on machines learning that now the new question is can they unlearn? Check out this WIRED article… 2021-08-19 15:23:30 Machine learning has powered #AI. Now, researchers are tackling a trickier question: Can machines UN-learn? https://t.co/7mBQzPBlc1 via @tsimonite 2021-08-18 12:09:14 RT @reckless: Thoroughly enjoyed talking to Argo AI CEO Bryan Salesky on Decoder this week about where we are with self-driving cars and ho… 2021-08-18 12:07:30 RT @vermontgmg: I remain disgusted by the sheer hypocrisy of GOP leaders who downplay and block efforts to fight COVID yet always demand in… 2021-08-17 17:52:57 RT @retailgeek: At peak of pandemic, restaurants lost nearly $51B/mo of sales to grocery stores. In July the gap has closed to $4B in sales… 2021-08-16 21:48:02 RT @EFF: In collaboration with @LegalAidNYC, Electronic Frontier Alliance member @STOPSpyingNY has uncovered $159 million of unchecked NYPD… 2021-08-16 18:13:31 RT @DavidCayJ: Donald Trump is imposing a mask mandate at his hotels. His son Eric has testified that dad makes or approves all such deci… 2021-08-16 18:02:15 For the background on the federal investigation of Tesla crashes, see this @wired piece from 2018: Why Tesla's Autopilot Can't See a Stopped Firetruck https://t.co/uIIgCR8nJW via @wired 2021-08-16 15:49:25 Can't meet the client? Consultants at EY are using deepfakes in their pitches. https://t.co/GhHlvQ6ptJ via @tsimonite 2021-08-16 14:56:21 RT @marynmck: Friday was a chaotic day in Covid World (and so much happened since). So, a recap: The FDA and CDC have authorized giving thi… 2021-08-16 12:17:16 RT @WIRED: While the first drilling attempt didn’t exactly go as planned, what initially seemed like a problem might actually provide vital… 2021-08-13 18:13:46 belatedly, Synopsys makes *software 2021-08-13 15:25:51 Google and Nvidia have talked about using #AI to design chips. Now Synopsys, which makes softwear for designing chips, is using AI too. First customer: Samsung https://t.co/JYWxKDSryp via @willknight 2021-08-13 11:45:09 RT @AlecMacGillis: Sixty years ago today, the East German government started building a wall through Berlin. (photo via Morgenpost.) https:… 2021-08-13 11:43:35 RT @WIREDBusiness: Synopsys, which sells software for designing semiconductors to dozens of companies, is adding artificial intelligence to… 2021-08-12 19:36:09 RT @Noahpinion: Not a good time to be restricting immigration, y'all https://t.co/UMrC4OH0FQ 2021-08-12 16:59:47 RT @MollyJongFast: We’re being held hostage by the unvaccinated https://t.co/d76gl9uXEP 2021-08-12 16:45:12 Read the story. If anything, the headline understates the disparity here 2021-08-12 16:43:45 Ohio Court Sentences Black Woman to 18 Months in Prison the Day After Giving White Woman Probation for Same Crime https://t.co/ADpShTcn4R 2021-08-12 15:54:21 RT @JamesRHagerty: An Idaho potato farmer reaped a bumper crop of microchips https://t.co/fwZ1A22BXx via @WSJ 2021-08-12 15:27:22 Behind the scenes in the race between @DeepMind and @UW to release code for how proteins fold https://t.co/VjZhnu5vyk via @wired 2021-08-12 15:23:51 Lee Nam-hyun really wanted to sing again after being paralyzed from the neck down. An #AI assisted device to exert pressure on his chest helped https://t.co/7cp3bbnzFv via @kharijohnson https://t.co/GGaGMSbKPu 2021-08-11 14:55:57 RT @JuliaAngwin: Wow this tool is enlightening. Top tech policy shops all take money from Big Tech. https://t.co/4nGNCwwtzd h/t @craigne… 2021-08-11 14:52:46 RT @KevinMKruse: Imagine threatening the lives of the doctors trying to protect your own children. 2021-08-11 14:50:47 RT @LarryGlickman: Today, I am calling for a complete & 2021-08-10 22:55:04 RT @cfishman: This may be the best climate news of the last few months: New study of 29,000 power plants around the world finds: > 2021-08-10 15:19:44 The Senate may vote on the infrastructure bill today. But funding for EV chargers was cut in half from Biden's proposal, which could imperil his goal of 40% EV sales by 2030 https://t.co/VSxHYPMSvf via @AarianMarshall 2021-08-10 11:50:11 RT @WIRED: “John Deere putting their stamp on this kind of fully autonomous technology means it’s really coming.” https://t.co/kLF4HAmuP5 2021-08-09 19:39:19 RT @themarkup: The ad on the left was shown to liberal Facebook users. The ad on the right was shown to conservative users. Reporter @jere… 2021-08-09 19:37:37 RT @GiladEdelman: Remember last summer, when brands made a big show of joining the "Stop hate for profit" Facebook boycott? A new @Pathmati… 2021-08-09 18:25:17 @vermontgmg Don't even have to come in contact. The longer you stay unvaccinated, the greater chance the virus has of mutating to something even more virulent than Delta. 2021-08-09 15:41:48 RT @efindell: Some people will never be convinced. Shanda Parish, a nurse who has cancer, said she simply doesn't trust the vaccine, even a… 2021-08-09 15:35:57 An unusual "bias hunting" contest found that Twitter's photo-cropping algorithm favored young, thin, females https://t.co/LsgBEhjNQ5 via @willknight 2021-08-08 04:51:53 RT @WIRED: "Facebook’s claims about privacy problems 'simply do not hold water.'” https://t.co/EG417A2Fcl 2021-08-06 21:33:51 RT @propublica: "The clear message the last 10 years is: Republicans don’t want to give money to the IRS because they don’t want the IRS to… 2021-08-06 20:44:55 @hbryant42 @Twitter Hadn't thought of him in forever. @chones22 was on the 72-73 Nets. The Dallas Chaparrals had FIVE guys named Jones that year. A radio announcer's nightmare! 2021-08-06 20:25:00 RT @drvolts: I think it's worth mentioning in articles like this that the notion of Pure Natives being infected & 2021-08-06 16:09:49 RT @sam_a_bell: https://t.co/2cYTubuq0r https://t.co/36Js1RPbap 2021-08-06 16:00:35 Who says ag is low-tech? John Deere buys its second Silicon Valley company in 4 years https://t.co/zymS1uiz9Y via @willknight 2021-08-05 21:15:03 Apple's new system to detect child sexual abuse in photos walks a privacy tightrope https://t.co/WvfIRh7Q76 via @a_greenberg 2021-08-05 21:04:31 Self-driving cars have hit speed bumps. But self-driving tractors are plowing ahead. John Deere just spent $250 mil to acquire one maker. https://t.co/zymS1uiz9Y via @willknight 2021-08-05 20:47:28 RT @AaronBlake: CBO says the bipartisan infrastructure bill would add $256 billion to the deficit over 10 years. https://t.co/cchIW5A1qz… 2021-08-05 20:43:40 X-rays look inside our bodies. So how can an algorithm that reads x-rays detect the color of our skin? https://t.co/4u4Hk9rAEj via @tsimonite 2021-08-05 19:27:05 RT @willknight: More than half of women say they have been harassed or abused online, according to a 2020 study of 22 countries. A new appr… 2021-08-05 19:21:21 RT @jason_kint: Wow, this Wired piece is so damn smart on the state of tracking users, simple and easy privacy controls to stop surveillanc… 2021-08-05 17:54:14 @brianstelter @sarafischer @Variety @Jeopardy Kinda like letting Dick Cheney run the VP search 2021-08-05 16:05:23 Race is a social construct, not a biological distinction. But other #AI programs could wind up using race as a shortcut in diagnostics, which could widen disparities in health care (via @tsimonite) 2021-08-05 16:03:16 This has serious implications for #AI in medicine. Researchers trained an algorithm using x-rays and other scans with a patient's self-reported race. The algorithm could then detect a patient's race in other scans w/ ~80% accuracy. https://t.co/4u4Hk9rAEj via @tsimonite (1/2) 2021-08-05 15:57:20 Re-upping our take on the Facebook-NYU spat: Sounds more like an excuse than an explanation https://t.co/XfEg0LLjPs via @GiladEdelman 2021-08-05 11:47:51 RT @GiladEdelman: Sometimes privacy and transparency are in real tension. I don't believe this is one of those times. https://t.co/MYehUk… 2021-08-05 11:38:54 RT @WIREDBusiness: A study raises new concerns that AI will exacerbate disparities in health care. One issue? The study’s authors aren’t su… 2021-08-05 00:52:47 @CaseyNewton @issielapowsky @AlexanderAbdo Similar to what we reported, https://t.co/xDYuejXjuD via @GiladEdelman https://t.co/JHm3IJ0LdC 2021-08-05 00:06:46 Facebook says it banned NYU researchers because their Ad Observer project violated its privacy rules. But its reasoning is suspect https://t.co/XfEg0LLjPs via @GiladEdelman 2021-08-04 17:55:09 RT @Cleavon_MD: Felicia Croft is a COVID ICU nurse at Willis-Knighton Medical Center in Shreveport, Louisiana: Today was the most emotiona… 2021-08-04 17:11:12 RT @larry_levitt: 14% of adults say they will definitely not get a COVID-19, a figure that hasn't budged since last year. I wonder, though,… 2021-08-04 15:44:43 Important for #AI: Instead of using turkers to label data, researchers hired full-time workers, with benefits, and brought them together with a mediator weekly. The resulting algorithm could better detect misogyny https://t.co/GPYjvE6lJr via @kharijohnson 2021-08-04 15:41:09 The pandemic exacerbated the stress of a startup, creating friction between cofounders. Solution: Couples therapy! https://t.co/dnPAEQG6wG via @pardesoteric 2021-08-04 12:15:22 RT @WIREDBusiness: The pandemic and the George Floyd protests have made recruiters’ jobs tougher. Now they’re tapping the behavioral profil… 2021-08-03 20:26:26 @eringriffith Proud to have shepherded it 2021-08-03 18:32:52 RT @AnthonyMKreis: In 1901, the New York City Bureau of Contagious Diseases along with 200 New York City police officers surrounded tenemen… 2021-08-02 21:20:07 RT @WIRED: Scientists have long warned of more violent and extreme weather events as the climate changes. Oregon's latest heatwave proved t… 2021-08-02 18:05:36 RT @RolfeWinkler: Oops https://t.co/5dXegSFixI via @cdweaver @sara_randazzo https://t.co/VYjYpRxGPA 2021-08-02 17:25:22 RT @WIRED: Following the industry trend of tech giants manufacturing their own processors, the company will start putting bespoke silicon i… 2021-07-30 22:05:57 @natemcdermott @inafried Someone should make a headline out of that: https://t.co/6oDwCMLZ9B 2021-07-30 22:01:45 RT @aprilaser: This is fascinating https://t.co/DOG4a5C9nn 2021-07-30 19:25:22 Why hasn't Apple adopted the Global Privacy Control that would make it easy for users to opt out of tracking? https://t.co/aDXm6R9AiG via @GiladEdelman 2021-07-30 16:31:40 RT @JeffWeinerOS: New: PACs that supported "ghost" candidates in state Senate races last year listed UPS stores in public elections records… 2021-07-30 16:29:59 RT @Bob_Wachter: New communication challenge: "I'm not getting vaxxed 'cuz I'm as likely to infect others as if I'm not vaxxed." Answer: no… 2021-07-30 16:23:10 The SEC has stopped processing Chinese IPOs https://t.co/862Svw5OYK For the backstory on the Chinese crackdown, check out https://t.co/cC9SK7yA0Y via @jenniferconrad 2021-07-29 22:01:40 It's about time. https://t.co/X1g62u49AZ via @wired 2021-07-29 19:12:00 Interesting thread on Facebook's strength. I've always thought FB was the most vulnerable of the big 5, but this makes the case they are the least vulnerable https://t.co/y8wH5A6LdQ 2021-07-29 16:51:23 What's behind China's crackdown on big tech? https://t.co/cC9SK7yA0Y via @jenniferconrad 2021-07-29 15:25:27 After years of boosting tech companies as de facto national champions, the Chinese government is now worried about how much data and power the companies have acquired. Good analysis of the recent crackdown by @jenniferconrad https://t.co/cC9SK7yA0Y via @wired 2021-07-29 15:05:19 RT @chelsea_janes: Alternate scenario: Girardi makes umps check Scherzer's hair again, Scherzer loses it once and for all, he and Davey bot… 2021-07-29 15:02:46 RT @WIRED: China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology recently announced a six-month campaign to regulate internet companies,… 2021-07-29 12:30:33 RT @brbarrett: Someone’s been faking the locations of aircraft carriers, nuclear submarines, and more to make it look like they crossed int… 2021-07-28 20:49:42 RT @WIRED: "Everything that a human can achieve, I ultimately think that a machine can. The brain is a computational process, I don't think… 2021-07-28 20:49:24 @parismartineau How'd you guess? 2021-07-28 16:20:10 Smart take https://t.co/prlQFYxWLJ 2021-07-28 16:19:17 @TimAeppel Proof they've been putting chips in the pastry! 2021-07-27 12:38:02 RT @MartijnRasser: Good article, with insight from @_ainikki , @karaafrederick , and James Lewis. https://t.co/BgnoKAfnVy via @wired 2021-07-27 12:37:50 RT @JohnJHarwood: The Damnation of George P. Bush - The Bulwark https://t.co/Fg2ukaiwmW 2021-07-27 12:26:14 RT @WIRED: Researchers from Northeastern University found that certain violent crimes—fights, robberies, reports of someone wielding a knif… 2021-07-27 00:21:27 Intel announced some big-name customers for its new foundry business: Qualcomm and Amazon. https://t.co/tjLiS38kvV via @willknight 2021-07-26 21:09:32 RT @by_jmiller: The Texas Supreme Court declined to hear an oil giant's case. Then, the oil giant gave $250k to a PAC supporting the justic… 2021-07-26 16:11:28 RT @LaurenGoode: "A year on, nothing has changed and everything has changed. ByteDance still owns TikTok, which added 7 million new US user… 2021-07-26 15:29:46 Disinformation for Hire, a Shadow Industry, Is Quietly Booming https://t.co/Gnr3fyC597 2021-07-26 15:26:51 Self-driving cars have lost their mojo. Now self-driving trucks are hot. https://t.co/Tm9GO2kguU via @AarianMarshall 2021-07-26 15:25:26 A year ago this week, Trump said he'd ban TikTok in the US. It's still here, and gained 7mil US users this year. But now China's govt looms as a threat https://t.co/1UHGQoDzGl via @willknight 2021-07-26 14:51:58 RT @willknight: I spoke to several ex-TikTokers for my latest @wired article. They describe a company that's made efforts to build walls ar… 2021-07-25 17:17:19 @mmasnick @BGrueskin Not everyone was focused on social media https://t.co/TgNwgobSSV 2021-07-23 21:11:06 RT @ProfTalmadge: Crystal-clear stance from @Georgetown on student vaccination: get the jab or find some other place to finish your degree… 2021-07-22 21:41:04 RT @bengoldacre: This @jetjocko lecture on the science of colour is a romp. https://t.co/vkMOVnkOjA 2021-07-22 21:25:41 RT @brbarrett: 91 people who went or were planning to go to Tokyo for the Olympics have tested positive for Covid-19 already and it only ge… 2021-07-22 16:02:46 RT @CaseyNewton: Wrote about new study by @jsbrennen & 2021-07-22 11:23:21 RT @Amirmizroch: If you're bringing AI into the fight, just make sure your enemy doesn't have access to your training data. https://t.co/D… 2021-07-21 22:12:42 RT @GregoryJBarber: "Silicon is brilliant!" So let's ditch it and try plastic computer chips instead. @WIRED https://t.co/PYWrJmnIDv 2021-07-21 22:06:03 RT @LaurenGoode: "When you buy an expensive product, whether it's a half-a-million dollar tractor or a thousand dollar phone, you are in a… 2021-07-21 18:44:44 If these chips take off, they might someday call it Plastic Valley https://t.co/VeHWbXRm3H via @GregoryJBarber 2021-07-21 18:34:58 RT @WIRED: Detecting hate speech or abuse is about more than just catching foul words and phrases. The same words can have vastly different… 2021-07-21 16:34:21 Researchers at ARM are making progress on chips made of plastic, which would be flexible, and could fit in unusual places, like inside a milk carton (to monitor for spoilage) or on a heart patient's chest https://t.co/VeHWbXRm3H via @GregoryJBarber 2021-07-20 16:29:33 RT @WIRED: A conservative think tank in Nevada last month suggested mandating that teachers wear body cameras to ensure they don’t teach cr… 2021-07-19 16:29:18 GlobalFoundries announced a $1B expansion of its NY chipmaking plant. https://t.co/25eCrTjU5C To understand why, read what @willknight wrote last week: https://t.co/grAUncnH2P via @wired 2021-07-19 16:24:38 Adversaries can subvert #AI systems. So as the Pentagon relies more on AI, it's created an internal group to find and thwart such attacks https://t.co/rObzeUL4Hr via @willknight 2021-07-19 16:22:30 Here's a crazy far-out idea: Tap the computing power in self-driving cars (equivalent of 200 laptops) through the cloud to tackle societal problems (decode the next virus) or just mine bitcoin. https://t.co/ie8hcTzzBq via @kharijohnson 2021-07-19 12:05:00 RT @WIREDBusiness: A new “red team” will try to anticipate and thwart attacks on machine learning programs. https://t.co/LXgQfe8dRa 2021-07-19 11:50:37 RT @backchnnl: Why Not Use Self-Driving Cars as Supercomputers? https://t.co/ub9RAjRtHf 2021-07-16 23:55:46 RT @tsimonite: Company claiming to pursue artificial general intelligence gives up on physical world 2021-07-16 22:16:33 This is just tragic. To think we actually created vaccines for this virus in less than a year but then some people's stubborn refusal to take the vaccines have allowed the virus, and its variants, to take hold and mutate ... https://t.co/3VQlFhHirH 2021-07-16 17:43:52 RT @redouad: Emmanuel Macron announced on Monday that a proof of vaccination (or a negative test) would very soon be needed to access publi… 2021-07-16 17:36:43 And this is percent of NORMAL, not percent of capacity, which is lower because reservoirs are normally dropping this time of year https://t.co/hOof3YteF8 2021-07-16 15:42:24 The chatter in Washington around regulating #AI is getting louder https://t.co/smG3gRqZTd via @tsimonite 2021-07-15 15:27:52 RT @GiladEdelman: You may have heard about a new Ohio lawsuit seeking to have Google declared "a common carrier and/or public utility." Pr… 2021-07-15 15:17:53 Air travel is picking up, and airlines are adding some unexpected flights: Milwaukee to Las Vegas 2021-07-15 00:35:31 RT @granick: The more communications intermediaries there are, the more places that a government can secretly go to get information that it… 2021-07-15 00:31:10 RT @passantino: Literally every single Covid-19 patient in Los Angeles County-run hospitals is unvaccinated https://t.co/x4r1StR891 2021-07-14 18:04:21 A study finds that crime increased in Boston neighborhoods with more Airbnbs. But a twist: It's not the tourists. It's the erosion of social order. https://t.co/66Ai8MbUJs via @sidneyfussell 2021-07-14 16:23:40 RT @MichaelBabich: @ScottThurm @willknight It's hard to stay competitive if the only metric companies focus on is maximizing shareholder va… 2021-07-14 15:39:33 Interesting thread, but the story is even better https://t.co/xpHQOXSTd7 2021-07-14 15:30:12 “It's a national security risk if we don't start producing more semiconductors in America,” Gina Raimondo, the US secretary of commerce, said Tuesday at an event in Washington, DC. 2021-07-14 15:29:43 For decades, execs and policymakers took comfort in knowing US firms designed leading-edge chips, even if they were actually made elsewhere. That's no longer true, thanks to the pandemic and the rise of China https://t.co/grAUncnH2P via @willknight 2021-07-14 12:09:39 RT @TimAeppel: Turns out Branson didn't ride a bicycle to the launch of his space flight on Sunday, as depicted in a highly publicized vide… 2021-07-12 23:54:12 RT @jetjocko: Every time a street goes weird in a US city—strange fork, surprising curve, odd center median, stairs or crosswalk to nowhere… 2021-07-12 15:45:13 What's the legality, and ethics, of building commercial #AI tools from open source software? https://t.co/5RdISW5cIF via @GregoryJBarber 2021-07-12 15:22:01 Search for Tiananmen Square on Google in the UK (left), or Singapore (center), and you'll see the tanks in 1989. Say you're in China (right) and you'll see happy tourists https://t.co/UC7Gf2KpLn via @tsimonite https://t.co/bxVMfS9i0w 2021-07-12 12:25:34 RT @zakjason: Do you like turning every sentence upside down and shaking loose its lunch money? We're hiring a research editor to join @WIR… 2021-07-11 21:07:49 A new tool shows how Google shows different search results in different places. Search for Tiananmen Square. Tanks in the UK/Singapore results, but not in China (around the Great Firewall) https://t.co/UC7Gf2KpLn via @tsimonite https://t.co/A891o44ilV 2021-07-11 12:26:10 RT @donmoyn: This really seems extreme and a harbinger of what is to come: veteran (and tenured) high school teacher and baseball coach dis… 2021-07-11 12:08:54 RT @WIREDBusiness: Search Atlas displays three sets of links—or images—from different countries for any search. https://t.co/ymf1juz99P 2021-07-10 18:03:17 "Liar!" "Running dog of the US!" Trump is gone, so Chinese diplomats are the new insulters-in-chief on Twitter https://t.co/bqvRinekMI via @jenniferconrad 2021-07-10 12:14:54 RT @willknight: If you haven't already, check out WIRED's excellent new AI-focused newsletter Fast Forward , written by my colleague @je… 2021-07-09 21:30:01 RT @jilliancyork: Facebook started as a way to rank women on their hotness, don’t get it twisted. https://t.co/OJ1ihZ1LYi 2021-07-09 15:46:51 RT @LaurenGoode: A sweeping new presidential directive includes, among other things, an initiative to secure consumers’ right to repair the… 2021-07-09 15:45:02 The chips running #AI have become so complex that you need #AI to lay them out https://t.co/7gtXHNSOnT via @willknight 2021-07-09 14:36:46 RT @WIRED: Recent advances in AI have made it possible for algorithms to learn some of the dark arts involved in chip design which should h… 2021-07-09 14:36:13 RT @WIRED: Joe Biden signed an executive order directing the Federal Trade Commission to draft new regulations limiting device manufacturer… 2021-07-07 16:04:42 RT @ericgoldman: I have a paper coming very soon which analyzed 61 prior lawsuits by users over having their account terminated or content… 2021-07-07 16:04:42 RT @ericgoldman: I have a paper coming very soon which analyzed 61 prior lawsuits by users over having their account terminated or content… 2021-07-07 11:57:44 RT @WIRED: The Pentagon said it will start over with a new contract that will seek technology from both Amazon and Microsoft, and that offe… 2021-07-07 00:22:27 Yes, the Pentagon was tired of the fighting over JEDI. But it also wants to inject more #AI into its capabilities https://t.co/JUgso1Oafv via @tsimonite 2021-07-06 15:45:49 Nice story by @themarkup on facial recognition in Texas schools. https://t.co/fsLLg2Mma5 You can also read our earlier story of a nearby district with the same system: https://t.co/H0wOGRhdzU 2021-07-06 15:24:56 In the early years of the global AI City challenge, US co's and universities dominated. Last month, Chinese co's or universities took first and second place in all five categories. https://t.co/yWIyYmO3Xg via @kharijohnson 2021-07-03 12:40:33 RT @sailorrooscout: •99.2% of all U.S. COVID-19 deaths this past May were among individuals not fully vaccinated. That’s 17,850 of 18,000 d… 2021-07-02 20:26:09 RT @MarechalPhD: If you only read one thing about tech policy this weekend, read this. "The problem with Facebook is Facebook." The impli… 2021-07-01 21:40:11 As a species, we're not good at grasping long-term risks and planning ahead. Exhibit #189347: The Miami building collapse. @jetjocko explains https://t.co/rofUg0kWxX via @wired 2021-07-01 19:59:28 RT @JesseLehrich: RON KLAIN to @karaswisher: "I've told Mark Zuckerberg directly that when we [ask unvaccinated people] 'Why aren't you va… 2021-07-01 18:26:17 RT @RBReich: 5 of the 6 Supreme Court justices who just voted to further weaken the Voting Rights Act and make it easier to buy elections w… 2021-07-01 18:09:53 @cfishman Don't disagree historically, but that's been what a lot of the disputes in the West in the past 30 years have been about, using the Endangered Species Act or another law to give the environment "a seat at the table." 2021-07-01 15:18:48 RT @AriBerman: Never forget: If Mitch McConnell had not stolen 2 Supreme Court seats for Trump there would be 5-4 progressive majority prot… 2021-07-01 15:14:21 Those buckled roads and melted cables in the Pacific Northwest this week are signs that we're not ready for a changing climate https://t.co/jiIxogRx7p via @AarianMarshall 2021-07-01 11:56:16 RT @DVNJr: Good morning! https://t.co/glBE4YzWpZ 2021-07-01 11:48:47 RT @WIREDBusiness: Highways and rail lines in the Pacific Northwest were built for a cooler climate. But the heat wave proved that extreme… 2021-06-30 19:24:16 RT @eringriffith: "the pivot to creator economy" trend is giving me flashbacks to 2018 when i wrote this https://t.co/GiwvNQNo6X 2021-06-30 18:51:16 RT @wsisaac: This new interview by @kharijohnson with @AlondraNelson46 is excellent! Particularly, the call to move towards sociotechnical… 2021-06-30 18:43:58 RT @WIRED: Tim Berners-Lee wrote the source code for the World Wide Web in the early 1990s. But now he’s raised over $5.4 million by auctio… 2021-06-30 18:15:38 RT @JesseDrucker: Oy. https://t.co/9kAuBp3DEd 2021-06-29 22:59:15 Late to this, but what an interesting story. Those TikToks from Chinese factories come from a surprising source https://t.co/YnjcTYlS17 via @restofworld 2021-06-29 15:37:12 Alondra Nelson wants government science policy to be more inclusive and honest about the past. A revealing interview with @kharijohnson https://t.co/Y4cNeetpg3 2021-06-28 15:26:55 Columbus won the US "Smart City" Challenge in 2016, and all it got was this lousy t-shirt https://t.co/2ileQXeAqr via @AarianMarshall 2021-06-26 11:25:11 RT @WIRED: Image-manipulation tools made possible by AI may make it harder to accept images at face value. https://t.co/Rl0c6GUcgj 2021-06-24 19:21:46 RT @therecount: “Pay them more.” — President Biden whispers in response to questions about worker shortages. https://t.co/8OtMvzizFT 2021-06-24 12:12:19 RT @WIRED: John McAfee’s life was a thicket of complications 2021-06-23 23:26:31 RT @brbarrett: A year ago today I published this feature on the work my friend @bsw5020 and @sabrevaya have done with @iamalsorg in the fac… 2021-06-23 21:19:01 RT @xkcd: No, The Other One https://t.co/EsXAbbYnV6 https://t.co/guPaprSglD 2021-06-23 18:59:27 Could criminal charges against executives slow the global trade in spyware tech to repressive regimes? We may be about to find out. https://t.co/dHfLE8M4tH via @sidneyfussell 2021-06-23 17:34:55 @JimLaPorta @mattyglesias THIS should be a mandatory lesson in high school 2021-06-23 16:57:59 RT @tsimonite: Twitter has assembled an interesting team to work on ethical AI, including @KLdivergence and @ubiquity75 "Our goal is to cha… 2021-06-23 15:51:30 Europe is tougher on tech companies than the US, right? Not always. Google has a new app to help people assess skin problems. It will be available in the EU, but not immediately in the US. https://t.co/rJJy9LuvDF via @tsimonite 2021-06-23 12:25:36 RT @WIREDBusiness: The dermatology AI app won approval for use in the EU but not with the FDA, an odd twist on Europe's reputation for toug… 2021-06-22 21:21:37 RT @vtitunik: Why did Jeffrey Fang take his kids on an ill-fated DoorDash delivery? @laurensmiley wanted to know, and the story she found o… 2021-06-22 18:14:00 RT @kharijohnson: New: There’s a government effort under way to quantify how people trust AI https://t.co/JK5YNqGMg1 2021-06-22 17:02:18 @random_walker Good thread. We *undersold* this study here: https://t.co/LIaCcPzeJo 2021-06-22 16:49:05 RT @jetjocko: A couple dozen cities—and one state—use "ranked choice voting" in the US, instead of winner-take-all. Advocates say it could… 2021-06-22 15:18:55 The National Institute of Standards and Technology measures how many photons pass through a chicken. Now, it wants to measure how much you trust (and should trust) #AI . https://t.co/seDJ7Fa3IA via @kharijohnson 2021-06-22 12:39:49 RT @WIRED: Jeffrey Fang was delivering a DoorDash meal when his minivan was carjacked. But he had a bigger problem than missed deliveries… 2021-06-21 16:58:16 RT @tsimonite: Too bad for Google that they fired one of the coauthors of the Gender Shades study that first got the tech industry even thi… 2021-06-21 16:54:31 RT @WIRED: Sit. Stay. Shoot. https://t.co/99elDl6PEO 2021-06-21 16:00:12 Free Rides! More Trains! Transit agencies are trying everything to lure riders back https://t.co/l4jBfNKp6S via @AarianMarshall https://t.co/9RhvVCXPRA 2021-06-21 15:58:41 Another #algorithm with questionable payoff. Epic's predictor for sepsis misses many cases and sends lots of false alarms https://t.co/A5V8iilrde via @tsimonite 2021-06-21 12:14:26 RT @WIREDBusiness: Systems in Boston, Cleveland, Las Vegas, and the San Francisco Bay Area are offering reduced fares or free rides. Others… 2021-06-18 11:47:55 RT @random_walker: If you're in a talk or a classroom feeling hopeless while the speaker or professor seems so smart, remember this. https:… 2021-06-17 16:00:53 RT @WIRED: The value of lithium to mitigate climate change is undeniable, but there would be costs wherever the element is extracted from t… 2021-06-17 15:10:50 Text generators like GPT-3 can be racist, misogynist, and worse. @kharijohnson examines some of the efforts to cure these ills https://t.co/ZrCnv5yImI via @wired 2021-06-17 11:52:26 RT @TaniaGlezAZ: The Lithium Mine Versus the Wildflower https://t.co/FVWaJVcyog 2021-06-16 20:41:20 RT @mikarv: @tsimonite gets it. Local processing is only always good insofar as we confuse confidentiality w privacy — both useful but we n… 2021-06-16 20:09:14 @davekarpf @psaffo @wired, always bringing you news from the future! 2021-06-16 15:29:25 Apple and Google are processing more audio ont the phone and less in the cloud. That's good for privacy, but binds users more tightly with the tech giants https://t.co/OkZbNEHJBe via @tsimonite 2021-06-16 15:06:35 RT @WIRED: “Privacy gets confused with keeping data confidential but it’s also about limiting power.” https://t.co/OkRtHeuV6i 2021-06-15 15:34:36 RT @hypervisible: “Zillow previously determined the value of homes using nearly 1,000 variations of algorithms derived for local markets. N… 2021-06-14 16:57:19 RT @_KarenHao: Go read @tsimonite's in-depth piece as well, which goes into rich detail about Timnit's remarkable life and career. Mine is… 2021-06-14 12:48:56 RT @vermontgmg: Vermont will announce this morning that it's hit the 80% vaccination rate and all Covid restrictions will be lifted—an incr… 2021-06-14 12:47:18 RT @MattPerault: In @WIRED today with @jsbrennen, why legislators should salvage a provision buried deep within HR 1 to expand platform lia… 2021-06-10 21:27:05 RT @CryptoWhale: The #Bitcoin 2021 conference in Miami was the first major in-person conference since the pandemic started. It may have be… 2021-06-10 18:05:34 RT @sarahkliff: UnitedHealthcare was planning to deny coverage for ER visits they retroactively decided were not emergencies. @ReedAbelson… 2021-06-10 15:29:55 RT @asymco: Sankey diagrams are useful in analyzing company financials, especially income statement. I do this with Apple but surprised tha… 2021-06-09 18:05:20 RT @MnDOTResearch: Check out the latest from @WIRED, featuring a MnDOT funded research project with the @UMNews assessing how an uptick in… 2021-06-09 15:42:01 Covid disrupted traffic. But was it remote work, or the lockdowns? There's a lot riding on the answer https://t.co/hjzVn37SL7 via @AarianMarshall https://t.co/m4PUHueu0N 2021-06-09 15:38:26 ICYMI: The cover story of our summer issue, about @timnitgebru's battles inside Google and why tech co efforts to research "ethical AI" are doomed https://t.co/xP0phOJxCF via @tsimonite 2021-06-09 11:44:01 RT @histoftech: This (long) article is a great explainer on how the nascent field of AI ethics got overrun by corporate money and power—and… 2021-06-09 00:57:34 RT @Scott_Wiener: Manny’s is a Jewish-owned business in the Mission. Since it opened a few years ago, it’s been targeted. This weekend, Ma… 2021-06-08 20:29:31 Thread... https://t.co/Ng77VCUN01 2021-06-08 17:48:18 RT @WIRED: Fastly, a content delivery network, had a major hiccup on Tuesday morning that resulted in large portions of the web sputtering… 2021-06-08 16:07:25 RT @tsimonite: There's more to Timnit Gebru's story than her snap ejection from Google last December, after execs demanded she retract her… 2021-06-08 15:39:01 "AI is largely unregulated and only getting more powerful and ubiquitous, and insiders who are forthright in studying its social harms do so at the risk of exile." 2021-06-08 15:38:48 .@tsimonite goes deep on the ouster of @timnitgebru and the inherent tension in corporate #AI ethics research https://t.co/xP0phOJxCF via @wired 2021-06-07 20:17:05 RT @BGrueskin: Somewhere in Idaho or South Dakota, there’s a school board meeting that needs to be covered … or there’s a police shooting t… 2021-06-07 20:11:43 RT @WIRED: “We believe LaMDA’s natural conversation capabilities have the potential to make information and computing radically more access… 2021-06-07 20:02:33 RT @tsimonite: “It never calls in sick” https://t.co/URu9mounDX 2021-06-07 19:17:51 Google wants to integrate more "natural language" tech (think GPT-3) into search. Given all we've seen with GPT-3, is this a good idea?https://t.co/qm7amhQnqy via @kharijohnson 2021-06-07 18:58:31 RT @WIRED: Pinduoduo connects 12 million farmers to approximately 800 million consumers, surpassing Alibaba as China’s top shopping site. h… 2021-06-07 15:17:38 Pinduoduo is now China's largest ecommerce company by number of users. And it's unusually reliant on selling fresh produce from 12 million farmers https://t.co/eXvOIpAeS0 via @wired 2021-06-07 15:14:19 A fast-food chain in Ohio couldn't find enough workers, so it installed a voice-automation system to take drive-thru orders. Sales increased. "There's no way we're going back." https://t.co/berbPSZKfV via @willknight 2021-06-07 15:11:28 Google is moving toward a future where search is based on understanding language, rather than just keywords https://t.co/w83BMo0AaQ via @kharijohnson 2021-06-07 12:09:47 RT @backchnnl: China's Quiet Ecommerce Giant Thrives on Fresh Produce https://t.co/pmDP0uFG0G 2021-06-06 19:38:39 China is cracking down on bitcoin mining, and some miners are selling their rigs https://t.co/WT0wioepRH via @wired 2021-06-05 19:03:41 As they say, Math Counts! https://t.co/uGop1BpAfp 2021-06-04 19:54:48 This is very insightful about the recovery (not surprising given the source, ⁦@BetseyStevenson⁩ ) https://t.co/66ohyDIj7e 2021-06-03 19:57:00 RT @p2173: https://t.co/0xImZ6FCll 2021-06-03 16:18:50 RT @pwnallthethings: Random obscure fact, but you can't lose minesweeper on the first click. The app only decides where the mines are only… 2021-06-03 16:09:30 Brooklyn's East New York neighborhood is less than 2 square miles, and is blanketed with 577 surveillance cameras. https://t.co/kpBIzZEViR via @sidneyfussell https://t.co/wwWTqYCIKi 2021-06-03 15:07:01 Did you hear the one about the robot that flipped into a fountain? Or the algorithm that made it harder for Blacks to get care for kidney disease? There's a growing list of where #AI has harmed or had the potential to harm people https://t.co/Eifdy4LwKZ via @tsimonite 2021-06-03 04:53:31 Amnesty International recruited volunteers to identify surveillance cameras in NYC. They found 15,000—in just 3 boroughs. In East New York, 577 cameras in less than 2 sq mi. https://t.co/1hYWmTCPdI via @sidneyfussell 2021-06-01 15:37:39 Forget Miami. Reno's @mayorschieve is the nation's biggest municipal #crypto advocate. She's looking at #NFTs and smart contracts, but declines to say how much she's made on $LINK https://t.co/nAjKkSDxlK via @GregoryJBarber 2021-06-01 15:16:38 The Manual for Uniform Traffic Control Devices is not the snappiest title for a book. “It's not a real fun evening bedtime read,” one official says. But it will shape the future of cities https://t.co/KMNsy41jN8 via @AarianMarshall 2021-05-30 17:05:45 RT @jetjocko: How art conservators restored three damaged Mark Rothko paintings—by changing the light bouncing off of them. A bit from my b… 2021-05-28 15:33:52 Beijing in Tacoma? Researchers used deepfake techniques to make maps that could confuse or misinform https://t.co/byZzX0CSSO via @willknight https://t.co/5FhtpFSxEY 2021-05-27 18:26:21 Surprise! When you make driving easier, people drive more. https://t.co/MKLTs8vQp0 via @AarianMarshall 2021-05-27 16:22:14 Uber made a deal with a union representing drivers in the UK. But it may not cover pay, and there are myriad other details to be worked out https://t.co/EMhfTXvLAt via @wired 2021-05-27 14:44:03 RT @emollick: To solve the Prisoner's Dilemma, ask prisoners! ”Inmates are... able to better solve their classical dilemma situation than s… 2021-05-27 12:24:42 RT @willie_agnew: The money here isn't in "empower[ing] people with little coding experience" Organize while you can tech workers, because… 2021-05-26 19:49:25 RT @lmatsakis: SCOOP: YouTube allowed a pro-government channel from Belarus to run ads featuring hostage videos of detained journalist Roma… 2021-05-26 18:18:34 Microsoft is using GPT-3 to help people write code using ordinary language https://t.co/vMvVhdfmZF via @kharijohnson 2021-05-25 23:02:47 The DC antitrust case against Amazon is powerful in its simplicity https://t.co/aoDq5EBrA4 via @GiladEdelman 2021-05-24 22:43:19 RT @caitlin__kelly: “This law looks like a political freebie…You get to pander, and nothing bad happens, because there’s no chance this wil… 2021-05-24 16:35:38 ICYMI, Ford says the Lightning F-150 can power a home for 3 days, making it, not the Cybertruck, the true Electric Vehicle of Dystopia https://t.co/wIX9JY6SNk via @AarianMarshall 2021-05-24 16:33:40 Researchers trained GPT-3 to write disinformation tweets, and they proved very believable: “I don't think it's a coincidence that climate change is the new global warming.” https://t.co/uu0GaKLSf6 via @willknight 2021-05-24 13:43:10 RT @caitlin__kelly: "The researchers showed volunteers sample tweets written by GPT-3 about the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan an… 2021-05-24 12:12:20 RT @hypervisible: “…researchers say GPT-3, or a similar AI language algorithm, could prove especially effective for automatically generatin… 2021-05-22 18:50:29 Ford says the F-150 Lightning can power a home for 3 days. A bet on climate change? https://t.co/wIX9JY6SNk via @AarianMarshall 2021-05-21 16:51:44 RT @WIRED: A consultant's study found that nearly 30 percent of Frontier's DSL customers were likely to receive speeds slower than what the… 2021-05-21 16:46:59 RT @aslavitt46: For the first time since March of 2020, the 7 day average number of deaths from COVID-19 have fallen below 500. And are dr… 2021-05-20 23:12:31 RT @WIRED: This artificial-intelligence-based tech could reshape the movie industry, in both alluring and troubling ways: https://t.co/VkgD… 2021-05-20 19:18:18 Ford's F-150 Lightning heralds price parity for electric vehicles. Its $39,974 base sticker is less than gas-fueled models of the same truck https://t.co/JWMjfggU6D via @AarianMarshall 2021-05-20 16:54:29 RT @sumantranji: A milestone at SF General @ZSFGCare today: COVID-19 inpatient census: 0 patients First time since March 5, 2020 2021-05-20 15:27:47 Why did the Roku-YouTube fight turn so bitter? Data! As in what you watch, and how you can be targeted in the $9billion, and growing market for ads on connected TVs. https://t.co/sjGVFMVDvb via @sidneyfussell 2021-05-20 15:25:21 There's a hitch in the move to electric vehicles: taxes on gasoline pay for much of road building and maintenance. No gas, no $$. What to do? https://t.co/YzvELgTfHl via @AarianMarshall 2021-05-20 12:40:34 RT @DLeonhardt: One of the great things about capitalism is that it offers a simple solution for “labor shortages”: Pay workers more. Rig… 2021-05-20 12:35:56 RT @WIREDBusiness: Connected TV advertising brought in $9 billion last year and is poised to grow as more viewers shift from cable to strea… 2021-05-20 11:13:20 RT @WIREDBusiness: Gas taxes are the largest source of funding for highway construction and maintenance. As more cars plug in, that revenue… 2021-05-20 11:02:42 RT @paolaruizglobal: @Harvard researchers used #machinelearning to analyze Exxon Mobil's rhetoric on #climatechange over decades, finding t… 2021-05-19 20:26:40 After outsiders raised questions about who is included and excluded from photos on Twitter, company researchers examined 10,000 photos and found the algorithm favors whites and women over Black people and men https://t.co/Taok8GoOoL via @kharijohnson 2021-05-19 15:32:47 You talking to me … in German? A new deepfake-like tech manipulates actors' faces to match the sounds of dubbed dialog. @willknight explains https://t.co/2sO8aEfXjv via @wired 2021-05-18 19:58:30 RT @WIRED: Here’s everything Google announced today during #GoogleIO: https://t.co/wo29W5T32W Thank you for following along with us! 2021-05-18 17:54:47 RT @glichfield: We are staffing up at @WIRED! Lots of open roles, with more to come. All of these can be based remotely. First, on our sc… 2021-05-18 17:49:20 RT @jetjocko: Vantablack. The Dress-crisis in color vision. Titanium white and Niagara Falls. Shipwrecks, car chases, alchemy, the oldest… 2021-05-13 21:53:26 RT @AriBerman: SCOOP from me & 2021-05-13 21:41:11 RT @rkhamsi: Where did the (ridiculous?) 5 micron cutoff come from in the #airborne debate? @MeganMolteni follows the scientists who sleuth… 2021-05-12 00:32:26 RT @davecraige: @ScottThurm @AarianMarshall In cities like NYC Uber was paying 96% of drivers less than min wage. It is a company built o… 2021-05-12 00:12:40 RT @CaseyNewton: I wrote about why WhatsApp’s privacy policy problems keep getting worse. Regulators have been looking for an easy way to p… 2021-05-12 00:09:38 RT @aetiology: This is the new normal. Serious cases will be almost exclusively in the unvaccinated population. Vaccines are currently read… 2021-05-11 23:58:54 Biden's been a good friend to labor, and a skeptic of gig work. But vaccines are important, so he made a deal with Uber& 2021-05-11 17:28:10 RT @issiromem: Pretty incredible chart from @chris_salviati at @ApartmentList! 1) Pandemic-driven mobility is an upper-middle-class phenom… 2021-05-10 15:45:17 Thrilled to welcome @jenniferconrad to our team. She'll be doing a little bit of everything @WIRED, writing newsletters, helping with some internal projects, and writing stories. 2021-05-10 15:14:02 More fallout from Google #AI ethics mess: 3 affinity groups say they'll no longer accept Google $$ https://t.co/PSSOkLWzsv via @kharijohnson 2021-05-10 14:50:15 The shifts are subtle, but some Pentagon officials now say some weapons may need to operate autonomously, without human control @willknight explains https://t.co/zed0RUmKH0 via @wired 2021-05-08 12:23:31 RT @TaniaGlezAZ: ISPs Funded 8.5 Million Fake Comments Opposing Net Neutrality https://t.co/bQGguDY18E 2021-05-06 16:54:51 RT @larry_levitt: Nearly 940,000 people have signed up for ACA coverage since the enrollment period was reopened and premium help was incre… 2021-05-06 16:51:19 RT @daniellecitron: This is the definitive piece on Section 230. @GiladEdelman nailed it. Thanks so much for including me and @ma_franks an… 2021-05-06 16:36:16 RT @mikarv: (image is confusingly of a pro NN comment submitted usually by real people through an EFF portal. Many more were against. See h… 2021-05-06 16:21:03 When @jetjocko asks you to "nerd out" with him, it's a good idea to go along. On vaccinations and hesitancy https://t.co/t2jDXCz8Eo via @wired 2021-05-06 16:09:50 RT @issielapowsky: Holy Moly. NY AG report finds out of the 22 million net neutrality comments the FCC received in 2017, 18 million were fa… 2021-05-06 16:04:00 RT @KarlBode: NEW from me: NY AG Letitia James today announced $4.4 million in penalties against 3 companies hired by the broadband industr… 2021-05-06 15:58:32 tl 2021-05-06 15:56:38 IBM says it's devised a 2nm production process for chips, which would hold 50 billion transistors, and be 45% faster, or use 75% less energy than today's best chips https://t.co/HwM7iTUSlf via @willknight 2021-05-05 22:58:51 @jetjocko And when it will come down! 2021-05-05 20:56:55 Hey, let's use GPT-3 to create a version of D& 2021-05-05 18:22:01 Oversight Board to Facebook: We’re Not Doing Your Dirty Work https://t.co/MFryWbkhLi via @StevenLevy 2021-05-05 17:33:57 RT @tsimonite: Text-based game AI Dungeon, powered by OpenAI's GPT-3, won fans who use it to explore adult themes. OpenAI sez some made se… 2021-05-05 17:18:14 @oneunderscore__ @aprilaser And stop giving public officials more leeway 2021-05-05 17:17:09 RT @oneunderscore__: Shorter Oversight Board decision: Facebook made the right move getting Donald Trump off the platform amidst an insurre… 2021-05-05 15:48:28 RT @adam_tooze: The longest walkable road in the world is from Capetown to Magdan Russia: 22000 km, roads and bridges all the way, no boat… 2021-05-05 15:41:34 Unintended consequences of #AI language models emerge daily. An adventure game that taps GPT-3 veered into child sex scenes https://t.co/3eqYLUVnNp via @tsimonite 2021-05-05 15:39:01 The oversight board's Trump decision was a masterpiece of judicial reasoning—that resolved nothing https://t.co/NsOtkBPymB via @GiladEdelman 2021-05-05 00:24:04 RT @seungminkim: Contestant on Jeopardy tonight talks about once riding the Senate trains with Joe Biden, except she didn’t know it was Joe… 2021-05-05 00:22:54 RT @JustinWolfers: Add a pinch of historical context, and you'll see why @DLeonhardt is right to describe Biden's tax plan as being really… 2021-05-04 15:22:56 Those candy bars stuffed near grocery checkout stands? With more people shopping online, fewer people are reaching for "impulse buys." Mars & 2021-05-04 15:19:19 Facebook's rules say you can't show ads about alcohol, tobacco, eating disorders, and other subjects to teens. The Tech Transparency Project found the rules are not well-enforced https://t.co/wvPVj18zuo via @sidneyfussell 2021-05-04 12:14:12 RT @hypervisible: Town is coming to terms with what it means for police to have a suite of surveillance tools at their disposal. https://t… 2021-05-03 23:26:46 RT @marxjesse: For years, Chula Vista has quietly amassed surveillance tools as part of its "smart" approach to policing. Glad to see @WIRE… 2021-05-03 16:24:48 RT @mdbenson07: Definitely worth a read https://t.co/ggJkOzxj5Y 2021-05-03 15:43:42 Chula Vista police had deployed license plate readers, drones, and body cameras, and tested facial-recognition. Then residents learned the city was sharing license plate data with ICE. https://t.co/HXI3pluEZF via @sidneyfussell 2021-05-03 15:00:02 RT @billjamesonline: Rickey breaking the Stolen Base record is now the half-way point between Roger Maris in '61 and today. 2021-05-02 12:19:28 RT @WIREDBusiness: The senator’s new book is an assault not just on Big Tech, but on basic facts of US history. https://t.co/kvaIsGWUe0 2021-04-30 11:18:36 RT @WIREDBusiness: City residents and elected officials pushed back after videos showed the Boston Dynamics robot in action. https://t.co/i… 2021-04-30 03:01:10 RT @WabiSpotty: Excellent read https://t.co/mu7c1BDRVF 2021-04-29 19:31:32 RT @aaronzitner: NEW: Census data on 2020 turnout shows a big jump among voters without a college degree. No wonder Biden talked about jobs… 2021-04-29 17:59:21 RT @ReichlinMelnick: Meanwhile, while all this trolling goes on by Rep. Boebert and the right wing, the Biden administration has quietly be… 2021-04-29 17:07:58 @KarlBode Early to this: https://t.co/CWIzdpmFR8 2021-04-29 17:04:05 This seems important: U.S. Labor Secretary says most gig workers should be classified as employees https://t.co/CEC4dvnvoa 2021-04-29 16:54:24 RT @wiredunion: We’re pumped and looking forward to productive bargaining, but we’ve been watching @condenast and the negotiations at our t… 2021-04-29 16:27:38 RT @nathanheller: Something fishy about Americans purporting to be so insanely busy, never having time for anything, then seeming to consum… 2021-04-29 15:39:10 You've read about the small businesses in center cities worried that the workers won't return. Now read how suburbs and smaller cities are planning for more people in town 9-5 M-F https://t.co/yYSK3N0whn via @AarianMarshall 2021-04-29 15:37:10 The amazing @jetjocko takes you inside Pixar's studios in this excerpt from his new book about the science of color https://t.co/vmp4Uefq3m via @wired 2021-04-29 15:08:24 RT @fmanjoo: one crazy factoid I learned You can now get more energy by collecting sun from the land occupied by the world’s largest oil… 2021-04-29 15:05:54 RT @jetjocko: Some promotional news: I wrote a book about the science of seeing and making color, and you can get a sense (heh) of it in th… 2021-04-28 20:54:45 RT @WIRED: One viral tweet created a tech conference out of nothing. https://t.co/8X8qs0ia1Z 2021-04-28 17:39:20 RT @davekarpf: In today’s (final) History of the Digital Future class we’re discussing Kevin Kelly & 2021-04-28 15:29:11 Ford deployed an #AI system to improve the way it assembles transmissions at a factory in Michigan https://t.co/75b3wZY5BK via @willknight 2021-04-16 03:42:05 RT @robertjdenault: Trump’s son met with the Russians, his campaign manager passed polling data to the Russians, his advisor coordinated wi… 2021-04-15 21:16:30 RT @WIRED: Auto insurers say AI is helping them resolve claims quickly and consistently. Body-shop owners? Not so much. “I'd say 99.9 perc… 2021-04-15 17:54:31 @ScottRosenfield @nxthompson @WIRED We will chart a way forward, but it won't be as strong a path without you 2021-04-15 15:34:19 This is worrying, but at least I now know why a local trail is called the Chamise Trail https://t.co/SCO3FW5tOg via @WIRED 2021-04-15 15:31:16 RT @RWhelanWSJ: CDC identifies 5,800 “breakthrough” infections of COVID-19, meaning 0.008% of more than 66 million fully-vaccinated people… 2021-04-15 15:26:35 RT @ShiraOvide: One more thought: What's interesting about Warren Buffett’s shareholder letters is his views about the economy and the worl… 2021-04-14 16:10:17 Miami's the new tech capital! Austin! New York! The new boss is the old boss: Silicon Valley still grabs the lion's share of VC $$ https://t.co/skllYxmH2U via @pardesoteric 2021-04-14 16:06:25 When it begins trading today, Coinbase stock will essentially be a way for investors to bet on the price of bitcoin https://t.co/lsRQjByncg via @gregoryjba 2021-04-14 13:16:13 The story of how the FBI broke into the phone of the San Bernardino shooter https://t.co/YDy41QEvHR 2021-04-14 12:30:43 RT @AdamMGrant: When a single cartoon sums up decades of data https://t.co/VeX3KGDrCM 2021-04-14 12:25:22 RT @WIREDBusiness: The largest cryptocurrency exchange goes public through a direct listing, and it could make a bigger debut than Facebook… 2021-04-13 20:12:28 RT @sidneyfussell: Read on to find out why it's actually weirdly hard to ban/regulate the NYPD robot dogs https://t.co/3OJ1n07KaR 2021-04-13 17:20:15 RT @p2173: Data Brokers Are a Threat to Democracy | WIRED https://t.co/BypB0n7RRl 2021-04-13 15:28:55 You've got speech recognition on your phone. So why did Microsoft pay $16B for a speech recognition company? @willknight explains https://t.co/bBO6zj0yle via @wired 2021-04-13 15:27:35 Insurers increasingly are using AI to assess the damage from car accidents. Body shop owners say it's making repairs less efficient, rather than more efficient https://t.co/Pq4ubiqJlV via @AarianMarshall 2021-04-12 20:38:25 The family of my former colleague @puiwingtam, scattered across 3 continents, tells a story of the rollout of Covid vaccines https://t.co/E2nGuEEyKL 2021-04-12 17:27:40 RT @WIRED: Right now machine-learning algorithms can simulate robots performing complex maneuvers to find the most efficient process. Over… 2021-04-12 17:24:34 Before cranking out drivetrains for EVs, BMW built a virtual factory that simulates workers grabbing parts and tools, among other things https://t.co/U1FVpfWCya via @willknight 2021-04-12 15:26:49 Facebook is being sued for weakening data protections. Google is being sued for strengthening them. Can that paradox be resolved?https://t.co/Fl3BEXzbEJ via @GiladEdelman 2021-04-12 15:24:19 "For years, I tried to live in the comforting fiction that what was happening in India and what was happening in the world of tech were separate things — but that isn't true anymore." https://t.co/vcld31tQj1 via @PranavDixit 2021-04-12 12:06:31 RT @WIRED: A photojournalist was granted rare access to the two-mile-wide swath of land between North and South Korea. This is what he saw.… 2021-04-09 15:56:24 RT @WIREDBusiness: Union supporters face a setback in Bessemer, Alabama, but indicate the fight isn’t over yet. https://t.co/l5urugzJCG 2021-04-08 19:06:23 RT @AuschwitzMuseum: Memory comes in many forms. Here on Twitter it is in your hands. On #YomHaShoah we kindly ask you to amplify our voi… 2021-04-08 16:32:32 RT @SportsCenter: 47 years ago, Hank Aaron hit his 715th home run to pass Babe Ruth for the No. 1 spot on the all-time list. https://t.co/D… 2021-04-08 16:32:13 RT @BrettMmurphy: January 2020 Covid deaths recently appeared in the CDC's public data without ceremony. When the Merc discovered it, CDC s… 2021-04-08 14:44:50 Good thread on reporting from two masters of the craft https://t.co/EzJAwegsn3 2021-04-07 23:15:14 RT @serwer: When the CEO of the biggest bank in the country rails on about inequality and says unequivocally that we need to raise the mini… 2021-04-07 22:37:15 RT @RMac18: Just saw this explanation from Facebook about the data leak, which interestingly claims it's focused on protecting people becau… 2021-04-07 17:27:31 RT @cecianasta: Encouraging that Twitch will be taking more responsibility for users' harmful behavior IRL, on Discord, or wherever else. T… 2021-04-07 16:57:47 The CDC catches up to @GregoryJBarber https://t.co/IW7uRiokKT https://t.co/UqOfEbJrmN 2021-04-07 16:28:22 RT @davidamichaels: I haven't heard an SEC official warn before on a hot market quite like this -- there are “some significant and yet undi… 2021-04-07 15:53:56 From his home in the Bay Area, David Tejeda helps deliver food and drinks to tables at restaurants in Dallas, Los Angeles and Sonoma County. The rise of remote operated robots https://t.co/ZtTwRYXHX9 via @willknight 2021-04-07 15:44:48 Facebook says it wasn't "hacked." Instead, people "exploited a flaw" in its contacts import feature to assemble a list of 533 million users with their personal info. Thanks for the clarification, folks. Makes all the difference. https://t.co/hwJwFSOTLz via @lilyhnewman 2021-04-06 15:27:58 RT @ReedAlbergotti: Facebook's recruiting department held a meeting in August to discuss the goal of hiring more Black engineers. A white m… 2021-04-06 14:47:24 RT @c_davies: This, by @LaurenGoode, is so incredibly written, so timely, so honest and blunt, it's the best thing I've read online in some… 2021-04-05 18:38:22 As the husband of a physician, I endorse this message https://t.co/NHv8SgIsTn 2021-04-05 18:36:29 RT @jetjocko: I’m going to miss @MeganMolteni fiercely, as a colleague and a pal. You’re getting a real ace, @statnews. https://t.co/RBd1p… 2021-04-05 17:28:42 RT @JoannaStern: Here it is! The Apple Car. We made a car out of iPhone parts to explain how cars have become giant computers on wheels.… 2021-04-05 17:27:58 RT @zeynep: More good news. Pfizer has the six month update. *Zero* hospitalizations among the vaccinated vs. 32 among the placebo group (n… 2021-04-05 17:24:02 RT @Emerald_Books: If you’re a PR professional working in the tech industry or a tech journalist, you’re going to want to read this new boo… 2021-04-05 17:07:07 RT @StanfordCIS: #10yrsago The WSJ reports that the feds are investigating whether smartphone apps illegally violated users’ privacy and sh… 2021-04-05 16:01:51 RT @NateSilver538: Just 222 COVID deaths reported in the US yesterday, which is the fewest since March 23, 2020. https://t.co/WbBcN2canq ht… 2021-04-05 14:47:47 RT @ShiraOvide: Jealous of this perfect sentence in a Washington Post editorial, about social media companies' fights with governments: ht… 2021-04-04 12:01:57 RT @WIRED: Sixty years ago, a sharecropper’s son invented a technology to identify faces. Then a record of his findings went up in flames.… 2021-04-03 22:53:58 RT @hbryant42: For people upset about sports applying political pressure on states, it appears they’ve forgotten the only reason Atlanta ev… 2021-04-02 19:07:17 RT @backchnnl: Every President Promises Broadband. Biden Might Deliver https://t.co/yUsCx6VTQp 2021-04-02 17:22:59 RT @LaurenGoode: That ship has sailed, but there's still a lot we can learn from the Ever Given fiasco. @AarianMarshall joined this week's… 2021-04-02 17:22:16 @ShiraOvide Actually, it's a design (by the ISPs) 2021-04-02 16:17:26 RT @WIRED: The arrival of vaccine passports could let affluent societies reach the far side of the pandemic while poor ones are still waiti… 2021-04-02 13:12:59 RT @LaurenGoode: "Budgets may make for boring reading, but they’re also signaling documents, telling the public about their leaders’ priori… 2021-04-02 13:12:38 RT @WIRED: This week on the Gadget Lab podcast, the crew talks about how, exactly, the Ever Given cargo carrier got stuck and what the ship… 2021-04-02 11:47:15 RT @WIREDBusiness: The president's $2 trillion infrastructure proposal boosts funding for buses and rail. It even envisions actually tearin… 2021-04-02 02:36:33 RT @WIRED: The major marketplaces for NFT art use energy on the scale of a small country https://t.co/npBcf7fR1u 2021-04-02 02:34:02 RT @curtlanglotz: I wish this story had distinguished training & 2021-04-01 22:47:44 @snackfight Asked by a community board member to explain why the truck garage he designed at 12th Avenue and West 55th Street was punctuated by so many windows, Mr. Friedlander replied, unpretentiously, “There are people inside.” 2021-04-01 18:24:22 RT @KarlBode: to justify the competition and job eroding T-Mobile merger, the Trump FCC/DOJ concocted an elaborate "fix" that attempts to c… 2021-04-01 16:41:31 RT @ZushaElinson: Before the 1994 federal assault weapons ban, Americans owned approximately 400,000 AR-15s, according to government estima… 2021-04-01 15:30:21 The US pressure campaign has really cut into Huawei's sales outside China. Check out the drop in Europe last year https://t.co/OvLpOBmJwm via @willknight https://t.co/CJyV32LDCL 2021-04-01 15:24:26 US sanctions are squeezing Huawei's access to advanced chips. China has a plan to change that https://t.co/OvLpOBmJwm via @willknight 2021-04-01 15:22:36 Fascinating look by @jessedrucker at the IRS's efforts to reclaim $1 billion in taxes skirted by Bristol Myers https://t.co/fsJ5FgZWgq 2021-03-31 22:42:03 RT @JustinWolfers: Some context on how Biden plans to fund his infrastructure package. https://t.co/0U5zuXEhaI 2021-03-31 15:54:51 RT @jetjocko: Over here shooting an ultraviolet laser at antimatter to make it cold enough for a test of how gravity affects it https://t.c… 2021-03-31 15:43:28 RT @eilperin: 1/ Remember the more than 40 appointees Scott Pruitt and Andrew Wheeler placed on two key @EPA scientific advisory panels? @E… 2021-03-31 15:39:53 RT @caitlin__kelly: "Research revealed this week shows that ImageNet and nine other key AI data sets"—used to develop and test algorithms f… 2021-03-31 15:32:43 A lot of "artificial intelligence" is based on labels attached by crowd workers paid a few pennies per label. Now researchers say a lot of those labels are wrong, perverting many #AI systems https://t.co/g3YLM2yJoC via @willknight 2021-03-31 11:58:49 RT @NKingofDC: I once shot a machine gun at a gun range in the Everglades with G. Gordon Liddy. Long story. He was the star attraction at a… 2021-03-31 11:50:26 RT @WIREDBusiness: The labels attached to images used to train machine-vision systems are often wrong. That could mean bad decisions by sel… 2021-03-30 22:09:49 RT @BillWeirCNN: Chauvin Attorney: "A stressful situation can affect memory, right?" Minneapolis EMT "Yes. That's why it's great that we h… 2021-03-30 16:08:08 RT @kharijohnson: ~Personal News~ I'm heading to @WIRED, where I’ll be a senior writer focused on AI. I start next month and am excited to… 2021-03-30 16:07:56 Thrilled that @kharijohnson is joining us to expand and deepen our #AI coverage. Welcome, Khari! 2021-03-30 03:57:59 RT @KimZetter: Most journalists don't have a journo degree. Me included. You don't need it to do good journalism. You need curiosity, skept… 2021-03-29 15:42:01 RT @caitharr: Mail ballots due today for the Amazon union election, as German AMZ workers strike and a week after a nationwide strike in It… 2021-03-29 15:33:00 RT @WIRED: Open-sourcing big AI projects like this could make the technology more accessible and widespread at a time when it has become in… 2021-03-29 13:07:29 RT @MarkDiStef: News Corp announces $349 million deal to buy book publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt — which means ladies and gentlemen, R… 2021-03-29 11:12:44 RT @caitlin__kelly: As a crucial phase of the Amazon union drive in Alabama ends today, ⁦@caitharr⁩ explains everything you need to know ab… 2021-03-29 11:11:45 RT @WIREDBusiness: The makers of Eleuther hope it will be an open source alternative to GPT-3, the well-known language program from OpenAI.… 2021-03-29 11:11:37 RT @backchnnl: This AI Can Generate Convincing Text—and Anyone Can Use It https://t.co/HeJMSsKNew 2021-03-26 15:32:51 Congress just gave schools $122 billion to deal with Covid. Some will buy ionizers to "clean" the indoor air. Only problem: There's no evidence the machines work. https://t.co/oJFGM6sIQw via @GregoryJBarber 2021-03-26 14:54:59 RT @LeahLitman: "things have changed dramatically" in the South -- Chief Justice Roberts, striking down the Voting Rights Act's pre-clearan… 2021-03-26 14:52:01 RT @rjallain: The #EVERGIVEN ship stuck in the #suezcanel is terrible for shipping - but it's a nice opportunity for some #physics homework… 2021-03-26 14:51:36 RT @elizabeth_joh: An unexpected cost of this recall effort in California? We’re headed toward a drought, but a recall-wary governor may no… 2021-03-25 23:45:04 RT @ClaraJeffery: "Why would Zuckerberg, Pichai and Dorsey be so evasive about whether they make more money from users spending more time o… 2021-03-25 23:08:28 RT @GiladEdelman: At today's hearing, Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey, and Sundar Pichai wouldn't admit that they make more money when users s… 2021-03-25 00:05:34 @Andrew32878081 @WIRED @willknight Intel long prided itself on BOTH design AND manufacturing. The "falling behind" refers to its struggles with EUV and 7nm tech 2021-03-24 22:49:43 It won't be easy to free the Ever Given from the Suez Canal. Dredges are digging, tugboats are pulling, and cranes may offload cargo 2021-03-24 21:57:26 Intel wants to show that the company, and the US, are serious about regaining global leadership in chips. But the news also highlighted how far Intel, and the US, have fallen behind. https://t.co/PM4OUtKkvJ via @willknight 2021-03-24 17:25:53 RT @pardesoteric: Silicon Valley has become a model for remote work in the past year. But engineers aren't the only ones working for tech c… 2021-03-24 17:17:07 Most big tech co's have continued to pay the food workers, bus drivers and others who support their campuses. Verizon and a few others have laid off those workers https://t.co/zQAc8hcMT3 via @pardesoteric 2021-03-24 15:53:19 RT @michellemanafy: Geared toward professionals whose careers have been upended by forces from climate change to tech, @WIRED's Resilience… 2021-03-23 20:28:39 RT @missy_cummings: I am skeptical of the actual use of reinforcement learning. And the algorithms that control an individual jet are very… 2021-03-23 17:36:13 RT @gregpmiller: Boulder had banned assault weapons in 2018, only to have that ban lifted 10 days ago because of a lawsuit by gun rights gr… 2021-03-23 16:12:10 RT @caitlin__kelly: Some exciting news to share about @WIRED: We’re trying something new, a new program designed for non-journalists to con… 2021-03-23 11:44:45 RT @WIRED: The Pentagon is interested in exploring how AI can control future fighter jets—and the likely challenges of deploying such techn… 2021-03-22 22:32:33 @jovialjoy @tsimonite @CodedBias @AJLUnited @IndependentLens @PBS We interviewed filmmaker Shalini Kantayya in November. Read it here: https://t.co/exnI3mv1sD 2021-03-22 21:08:00 RT @lukebrackenbury: Incredible. I thought ships lost a couple of containers now and then https://t.co/05nfwekPeV 2021-03-22 16:36:02 RT @_TimOBrien: surprised/not surprised - pay a visit to marinetraffic< 2021-03-22 15:55:41 Last year, the Air Force showed that an AI controlled plane could defeat a human pilot in a simulated dogfight. Now it's testing software to control a swarm of planes https://t.co/9yjfLC6SM0 via @willknight 2021-03-22 15:53:20 Do you know about parametric rolling resistance? It may explain why your order from China never arrived. A "deep dive" from @aarianmarshall https://t.co/VcXMejaHXm via @wired 2021-03-21 19:56:41 More shipping containers have fallen off cargo ships in the past 4 months than are typically lost in a year. Among the items headed for the Pacific floor: vacuum cleaners 2021-03-21 13:26:43 RT @WIRED: An AI researcher was scanning an online computer science bibliography when he noticed something odd—his name listed as a coautho… 2021-03-21 13:25:38 RT @nxthompson: "It's almost always the police officer arguing that they're defending themselves by using lethal force. But a robot has no… 2021-03-21 13:24:45 RT @prchovanec: If the US wants to send a signal to China that Beijing will hear loud and clear, it should rejoin TPP. 2021-03-20 12:24:46 RT @WIREDBusiness: More containers have fallen off ships in the past four months than are typically lost in a year. Blame heavy traffic and… 2021-03-19 16:30:05 It's not just Amazon warehouse workers who want to unionize. So do many delivery drivers. One problem: Most don't work for Amazon https://t.co/9CMKkrUQuS via @caitharr 2021-03-19 16:26:06 RT @WIRED: It’s an environmental solution that saves water and generates energy. What’s there not to like? https://t.co/U8uLs0McHx 2021-03-19 15:05:56 RT @ianbremmer: China now expects the US to treat it as an equal. The US doesn’t accept that and has no such intention. Pretty fundament… 2021-03-19 13:25:08 RT @caitlin__kelly: As the people who literally hold the keys to the Amazon's increasingly speedy shipping, last-mile delivery drivers coul… 2021-03-19 13:12:07 RT @issielapowsky: NEW: Facebook’s attempt to shutter research at NYU on political ads is just the most extreme example of the increasingly… 2021-03-19 12:03:05 RT @hypervisible: Google’s claim “is a classic example of what you might call privacy theater: While marketed as a step forward for consume… 2021-03-18 21:10:31 RT @fmanjoo: one thing on this: self-driving vaporware has been so damaging to transit! every time people propose better transit now, ther… 2021-03-18 16:38:54 RT @Joney93: Casually testing out potential @MLB rule changes during group work at @DrivelineBB Great piece by @BenLindbergh https://t… 2021-03-18 16:36:36 RT @BillKristol: McConnell: We denied Garland a hearing. We enabled Trump's assault on the rule of law. But we'll be mad if you alter the f… 2021-03-18 15:24:31 After an incident in the Bronx last month, a NY councilman has proposed what may be the nation's first ban on police use of armed robots https://t.co/tVIztLmbUE via @sidneyfussell 2021-03-18 15:09:16 RT @paulmozur: Behind LinkedIn's cryptic note that it stopped taking new users in China: Its execs were summoned by China's internet regula… 2021-03-18 15:07:47 RT @kashhill: After I reported the existence of Clearview AI in January 2020, the company's world exploded: lawsuits, international investi… 2021-03-18 15:05:23 RT @WIRED: Don't be one of these people https://t.co/hMBrpef2Bo 2021-03-17 22:18:50 RT @rohangrey: Thanks to @GregoryJBarber for including me in this great write-up on current debates over digital public currency and privac… 2021-03-17 22:03:35 RT @DrTechlash: @ScottThurm in the #TechlashBook https://t.co/EB43TDp7QK 2021-03-17 20:36:17 RT @WIREDBusiness: The ride-hail giant shifts its stand following a court ruling, part of a global push for a “third category” of workers.… 2021-03-17 20:30:27 RT @larry_levitt: I think we sometimes get numb to these numbers. If you're a parent in a family of three in Texas and make more than $3,7… 2021-03-17 20:12:23 After the UK Supreme Court ruling, Uber agrees its drivers are "workers." But Uber defines the hours for which they'll be paid, and they're still not employees https://t.co/dabVBvnPwi via @AarianMarshall 2021-03-16 18:21:11 RT @LaurenGoode: "Would a digital currency be a replacement for cash? In a paper published last month titled 'On the Possibility of a Cash-… 2021-03-16 16:24:55 RT @RMac18: In defending Facebook from the MIT Review story last week, FB chief AI scientist @ylecun made some incorrect statements in this… 2021-03-16 16:18:10 RT @WIRED: Most likely, all the mask-wearing, physical distancing, and handwashing meant to prevent the spread of Covid-19 also put the kib… 2021-03-16 16:17:06 RT @WIRED: EXCLUSIVE: Wikipedia wants to change its relationships with Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple—each relies on the internet ency… 2021-03-16 16:10:38 Reputational hit: 2 outside researchers pulled out of a Google conference this week to protest the exit of Timnit Gebru and Margaret Mitchell. A third said he'd no longer take Google $$ https://t.co/oIjJMvhBcx via @tsimonite 2021-03-16 16:04:14 The Bahamas have a digital currency. China & 2021-03-16 12:50:50 Revealing look at Amazon’s anti-union practices via @NYTimes https://t.co/kgGc5GuiUE 2021-03-16 12:21:35 RT @WIREDBusiness: Two academics changed plans to attend an invite-only conference this week 2021-03-15 21:23:10 RT @athundt: @Abebab I saw they've changed ImageNet! A positive step forward. Congratulations, what a huge impact! https://t.co/DjLnbZNQlX… 2021-03-15 16:51:12 RT @bencasselman: A year ago, when the pandemic ripped a hole in the U.S. economy, another Great Depression was a very real possibility. It… 2021-03-15 16:01:15 RT @jackclarkSF: ImageNet gets redone in response to ethical concerns. +1 to idea that we'll see emergence of P2P/underground AI dataset ec… 2021-03-15 15:35:13 ImageNet is a foundational database of deep learning, the basis for hundreds of research projects. Now, in response to privacy concerns about photos scraped from the web, its managers are blurring the faces https://t.co/vpB3RqU4DQ via @willknight 2021-03-15 11:12:38 RT @WIREDBusiness: Managers of the ImageNet data set paved the way for advances in deep learning. Now they’ve taken a big step to protect p… 2021-03-15 11:09:07 RT @WIRED: Sit. Stay. Shoot. https://t.co/aAEpV7OBVA 2021-03-12 12:48:41 RT @BGrueskin: A stunning anecdote —about a shiva! — from the former daughter-in-law of Allen Weisselberg (the CFO of the Trump Organizatio… 2021-03-11 20:42:20 RT @WIRED: Doing away with parking spaces disinvites car travel and could build support for more emissions-friendly bicycles and transit. B… 2021-03-11 17:34:44 RT @AriBerman: Arizona GOP state rep: "everybody shouldn't be voting...Quantity is important, but we have to look at the quality of votes a… 2021-03-11 17:29:29 Cities opened what had been parking areas for outdoor dining and other purposes when the pandemic hit. A year later, many of those changes increasingly look like they'll be permanent https://t.co/7FKd5UtyZg via @AarianMarshall 2021-03-11 15:46:31 RT @JuddLegum: Right now, it takes 60 VOTES in the Senate to pass legislation protecting voting rights But it take only 51 VOTES in the Se… 2021-03-11 01:10:03 RT @daiwaka: March 11, 2011 felt like almost any other Friday. I was working in WSJ's Tokyo office and I was looking forward to going out d… 2021-03-10 21:24:09 RT @Sherrell_Dorsey: Companies pledged money and support for people of color. But some say they still face a hostile work environment for s… 2021-03-10 17:13:51 RT @geoffreyfowler: New @washingtonpost: @mindykaling has gone missing from the library. So have recent e-books & 2021-03-10 17:12:45 RT @WillOremus: What would happen to Bitcoin and NFTs if we properly priced the social cost of carbon? 2021-03-10 17:11:46 RT @WIRED: “The same companies putting out Black Lives Matter statements [are] forcing people to sign NDAs where they can't talk about the… 2021-03-10 16:59:35 A new chip that encodes data as lightwaves, rather than electrons, could be a boost for #AI. Faster at certain tasks, and uses MUCH less power. https://t.co/AkgGrXPNsk via @willknight 2021-03-10 16:57:35 The fact that Lina Khan is even being discussed for a role on the FTC shows how dramatically the consensus on antitrust and competition policy has shifted. https://t.co/ATihxugVyo via @GiladEdelman 2021-03-09 00:03:13 RT @kharijohnson: In papers accepted for publication at the @FAccTConference, AI researchers from Africa and India spoke with experts about… 2021-03-08 23:59:53 RT @dscheinm: Pieces like this I hope lead to a more honest dialog. The time is long past. In my experience, there is too much fear in ju… 2021-03-08 23:39:46 Tech companies talk the talk on race issues, but employees say they don't walk the walk. Read why employees call it "diversity theater" in this @sidneyfussell piece https://t.co/hzHALiet24 via @wired 2001-01-01 01:01:01