Google Becomes Evil
Counter to its positive mythology, Google manipulates search results to suit its own corporate purposes, quashing free access to information on the Web.
Counter to its positive mythology, Google manipulates search results to suit its own corporate purposes, quashing free access to information on the Web.
Data technology researcher and author Ben Green punctures the myth of the smart city.
Despite marketing imagery to the contrary, the “cloud” remains very much grounded in physical infrastructure, including unfathomable miles of wires.
Young people are obsessively checking their phones more every year. Here are some reasons why, and strategies to regain control.
In a wide-ranging conversation, philosopher Michael Zimmerman contextualizes our technological journey within the history of Western thought.
The hows and whys of the decisions of machine-learning algorithms are increasingly opaque, even to their programmers. That makes laws and norms increasingly difficult to apply.
Once we’re all parroting back Wikipedia entries to each other, what unique knowledge or wisdom do we have to offer?
It’s our 2nd birthday! Publisher Mo Lotman shares a few thoughts about where we’ve come and where The Technoskeptic is going.
After a long so-called winter, artificial intelligence has recently made amazing gains. Tomaso Poggio, Director of MIT’s Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines, explains why this success is still a long way from the dystopian fears of robot overlords, but that the threat to jobs is real.
Gmail offers users canned responses to emails, based on AI interpretations of the contents and the user’s typical writing style. This convenience, unknown to the recipient, comes at a social cost.