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How much of your digital life would you lose if you lost a single password? Without it, you are locked out and the cold reality of using free cloud services like Google is that you don’t have a… Source: That time I got locked out of my Google account for a month | TechCrunch
An MIT project simulates your city following a disaster in an attempt to digitally augment our empathy levels. Can it really work? Source: MIT’s Empathy-Boosting A.I. Shows How Your City Might Look After A Disaster | Digital Trends
How a group of programming rebels started a global movement Source: Agile Software Development: A History – The Atlantic
Archivists are working to document our chaotic, opaque, algorithmically complex world—and in many cases, they simply can’t. Source: Future Historians Probably Won’t Understand Our Internet – The Atlantic
So there’s no sense arguing against education technology. Source: How to Teach a Cyborg – The Atlantic
Pessimists fare better than people with a sunnier disposition. Source: The Power of Negative Thinking – The Atlantic
We are beset by—and immersed in—apps and devices that are quietly reducing the amount of meaningful interaction we have with each other. Source: Eliminating the Human – MIT Technology Review
Voice interfaces, chatbots, and other systems are discriminating against certain minority dialects. Source: AI Programs Are Learning to Exclude Some African-American Voices – MIT Technology Review
The Iranian couple that stole my account opened a window to my homeland. Source: My Instagram Hacker Changed My Life | WIRED
If you stay up late, your social network is likely to be bigger than those of morning people, say researchers. And they think they know why. Source: First Evidence That Night Owls Have Bigger Social Networks than Early Risers – MIT Technology Review
From automation’s erosion of jobs to killer robots, there are plenty of thorny social AI issues to chew on. Source: DeepMind’s New Ethics Team Wants to Solve AI’s Problems Before They Happen – MIT Technology Review
Dating websites have changed the way couples meet. Now evidence is emerging that this change is influencing levels of interracial marriage and even the stability of marriage itself. Source: First Evidence That Online Dating Is Changing the Nature of Society – MIT Technology Review
A diagram of your social network reveals the strength of your individual relationships, network scientists say. Source: How Close Are You Really? – MIT Technology Review
What to watch and read before the robots take over. Source: Fiction That Gets AI Right – MIT Technology Review
While it doesn’t suit those with low blood pressure, or unstable hearts, new research shows taking a regular sauna can be extremely good for your health. Source: Are saunas good for you? — Quartz
A master of free association, he had an ability over a six-decade career to come up with instant graphic solutions that drew upon his innate attentiveness to the relationship of things. Source: Ivan Chermayeff: The graphic designer who defined the look of corporate America has died — Quartzy
To use AI to fix problems in the developing world, researchers need to think differently. Source: AI researchers need to approach developing world problems in a completely different way — Quartz
Source: Software is Increasingly Complex. That Can Be Dangerous. – ExtremeTech
Good environmental intentions are swamped by the effects of money. Source: Wealthier people produce more carbon pollution — even the “green” ones – Vox
Photomicrography—photographing minuscule objects with the help of a microscope—reveals the strangeness and beauty of things up close. Source: The Photographers Capturing a World That’s Invisible to the Naked Eye
People bought millions of consumer genetic tests over Black Friday weekend. Source: Ancestry’s Genetic Testing Kits Are Heading for Your Stocking This Year
All of it. Source: How Much of Boston Would Be Destroyed in Nuclear War?
Whether they are are autonomous, self-driving or “shared” like Uber and Lyft, they are still congestion. Source: Wonderful Uber ad demonstrates why we have to get rid of cars
Crave travel but need money to pay for it? Consider moving overseas instead. Source: 8 exotic places where you can live on a shoestring
Source: Digital democracy’s steep decline
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