Petervan's Delicacies - Issue #104

The very best

About the Silicon Valley religion that humans are the problem and tech is the solution. By @rushkoff

About Studio D by Jan Chipchase who is my inspiration for doing design, research and strategy consultancy right. His annual report, long and oh soo fascinating read.

About cars becoming smartphones on wheels. By @RikVera

About the biggest technology failures of 2018.

About the role we allow technology to play in the future of food, and some sinister disaster scenarios associated with that.

In four years, CEO Satya Nadella has transformed Microsoft from tech has-been to high-flier -- and the most valuable company in the world. In an exclusive interview, he shares his secret: a new-look culture that has radically changed how Microsoft operates, inside and out.

The Drum asked marketers from across the industry which hyped-up solutions, concepts, habits and strategies they’re sick of hearing about.

In Brussels he spoke of courage, of defending principles, of cultivating a ‘healthy suspicion of authority.’ He lavished praise on the GDPR, and called for a new comprehensive privacy law in the…

German car manufacturer Daimler, famous for its Mercedes-Benz brand, has begun testing its own cryptocurrency to encourage environmentally-friendly driving.

Citizens’ assemblies have their roots in the practice of sortition, says James Bridle, author of New Dark Age

Imagine living in a neighborhood where you can learn from your neighbors, grow your own food and invest in your community's well-being through commoning.

Data and Society

Turns out, a lot of it, actually.

What is it like living in a world of billion dollar lies? Where the social worlds we occupy are fragmented and insular, giving rise to echo chambers of fake news and a lack of ability to discern what…

Technology has been a wonderful gift to humans ever since the first person picked up a rock and fashioned it into a tool. Fast-forward a couple hundred thousand years and technology has grown to the point where we can fly across the world, communicate in real-time anywhere on the planet, and ...

EU's competition commissioner says tech firms must become more transparent about their use of data.

Reporter Yasha Levine uncovers the secret origins of the internet, tracing it back to a Pentagon counterinsurgency surveillance project.

Two years after leaving the Chinese market, the ride-sharing users are being haunted by phantom Uber accounts.

Zeitgeist

Exclusive: Emails show how tech firm has tried to gain influence and potentially shape lucrative government contracts

TechCrunch - Reporting on the business of technology, startups, venture capital funding, and Silicon Valley

Innovation

We took a long, hard look at the corporate companies forging the future of Europe — and the people powering the change from within.

Susana Jurado is Head of Innovation Portfolio-Product Innovation at Telefónica since 2015. She has developed expertise in Early Stage Innovation model, and the Lean Startup methodology, co-authoring the Lean Elephants whitepaper.ory.

Airbnb wants to get into the housing business in a big way.

TechCrunch - Reporting on the business of technology, startups, venture capital funding, and Silicon Valley

Future of work

Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and many more built it. But they didn’t come.

Internet Culture

A new framework for ethical AI at Google.

FinTech

A fake picture is worth a thousand fake words, and with this technology its going to become harder and harder to trust what we see on the web.

Can AI ever be "rational"? We examine work discussing the idea of AI that can surpass human's limited ability for rational thought.

Twenty-eight Chinese blockchain and Fintech companies have found a home at a newly-inaugurated blockchain incubation centre located in the Guangdong

In 2014 machine learning researcher Ian Goodfellow introduced the idea of generative adversarial networks or GANs. “Generative” because they output things like images rather than predictions about…

LONDON (Alliance News) - Visa Inc and Earthport PLC reached an agreement for the US credit card ...

US lenders emerge as big players despite customer complaints and high-cost credit clampdown

Recently, Bloomberg has reported that Google has obtained an eMoney license in Lithuania. Without any "ifs" and "but"s this reinforces Google's willingness to be a player in the Financial Services industry. This is why bankers in deep denial everywhere choose to remain calm.

AI, Robots, Algorythms

Tech companies have vowed to do better when it comes to using data ethically, but most ethics initiatives are neither enforced nor enforceable.

Humans by their nature have many cognitive biases. This can become detrimental to real scientific progress. Research tends to be biased in favor of approaches that many experts have invested…

The tech company’s proposed facial-recognition doorbell could be a civil libertarian’s nightmare.

Musk claims Neuralink will rescue humanity. But without our biological flaws, we lose an essential part of who we are

On December 21, 2018, the United States House of Representatives voted to enact H.R. 4174, the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act of 2017, in a historic win for open government in the United States of America. The Open, Public, Electronic, and Necessary Government Data Act (AKA the OPEN Government Data Act) is about to become…

Discover how AI can be used to automate processes in legal, contract, and human resources departments at enterprises in a variety of industries.

From drones to 3D printing, find out how Lockheed Martin, the largest military contractor in the world, is leveraging AI for products it intends to sell to the military.

Artificial General Intelligence AGI is either possible or it isnt. The chasm that divides the two viewpoints couldnt be wider because it has to do with our core beliefs about the nature of reality, the identity of the self, and the essence of being human.

Digital Ethics

This working document constitutes a draft of the AI Ethics Guidelines produced by the European Commission’s High-Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence (AI HLEG), of which a final version is due in March 2019.

This article reports the findings of AI4People, an Atomium—EISMD initiative designed to lay the foundations for a “Good AI Society”. We introduce the core opportunities and risks of AI for society;...

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The technology could revolutionize policing, medicine, even agriculture—but its applications can easily be weaponized, David Owen writes.

Art related

Aesthetics

Once considered virtually obsolete, modular synths have been one of the most surprising growth areas in music technology over the last decade. We speak to

Theo Adams Company’s production Choreomania

Colossal | Art, design, and visual culture

the heart of malta project by svetozar andreev envisions a new visual landmark by creating a polygonal architectural form with mirrored steel faces.

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Bandersnatch, the latest episode of Charlie Brooker’s technological-nightmare series Black Mirror, has arrived on Netflix, and it’s an interactive film full of story branches and dead ends. Here are the narrative maps, Easter egg guides, and lists of codes and possible endings that will help you save hours of replay.

Other

30Dipl. Ing. Norbert L. Brodtmann uses the curvy and tortuous path in the Chartres Labyrinth to demonstrate the possibilities of the robot arm technology he has developed. He transforms the straight lines and radii of the path elements for the way in the Chartres labyrinth in Bezier curves, which he draws in inverse kinematics by…

dubbed the temple of direction, the structure responds to the openness of the playa and creates a framework that encourages burner to travel from end to end.