Society and technology
Monday links
New adverts ‘could track your eyes’ in supermarketsAn advertising system which is able to track your eye movements while you shop has been created by researchers based at Lancaster University—BBC News Wash. Hospital Hit By $1.03 Million CyberheistOrganized hackers in Ukraine and Russia stole more than $1 million from a public hospital in Washington state [...]
Controlling computers by thinking
Once found only in the realm of science fiction, controlling computers with brain waves is coming close to reality. At the New York Times, Nick Bilton writes about how thought control is being developed: Soon, we might interact with our smartphones and computers simply by using our minds. In a couple of years, we could [...]
Monday links
In Boston bombing lock-down, the best and worst of social media emergesI’m a fan of Twitter but not blind to its abuses. And Friday’s Boston Marathon bomber manhunt, which had my hometown locked down for more than 12 hours on Friday, brought out the best and worst of the social media network — or more [...]
Monday links
Without human input augmentation, algorithms alone are making us dumberAre algorithms actually making society dumber? Yes, says at least one big data expert. We can’t throw computers at our problems until we better define those problems though human input—At GigaOM, Kevin C. Tofel discusses the contention of big data expert Eric Berlow that reliance on [...]
Quote of the week
Research consistently shows that many members of the general public – voters, taxpayers, decisionmakers – lack even a basic understanding of rudimentary scientific concepts.—from literature used by the American Institute of Physics to publicize the website Inside Science that is trying to provide content for general audiences
Digital anniversary celebration
Source: The New Yorker
From the filing cabinet
I always see many more interesting things on the Internet than I can post about but here are some things worth looking at from the many links I have saved in recent months: How the internet is changing languageOnline, English has become a common language for users from around the world. In the process, the [...]
