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How to lose $500 million using algorithms? 🏠
Man-made formulas can seldom capture the nuance of human emotion and so most algorithms are condemned to a life of uncertainty. Zillow’s capitulation is a cautionary tale for anybody who thinks they can tame the real estate market using data.
Netflix games are coming to all members on android starting this week 📱
After early tests in select markets, Netflix announced today its debut lineup of exclusive mobile games will begin rolling out to all members globally on Android devices, starting this week.
YouTube is a gold mine of content and they recently did a few debatable experiments. A look at the psychology behind these changes and if they could have been done better.
Timnit Gebru Says Artificial Intelligence Needs to Slow Down 🤖
The AI researcher, who left Google last year, says the incentives around AI research are all wrong.
Jony Ive’s first major design since leaving Apple ✨
Consider Jony Ive’s impact on design, and you undoubtedly picture modern Apple products: pared-back industrial forms, distilled to essential components. But Ive’s first public project since founding his own design collective, LoveFrom, is something totally unexpected.
The history behind the World Time face for Apple Watch ⌚
Like most Apple products, it’s not one killer feature that makes it so good. Instead, the Apple Watch is a careful balance of design, technology, usability, personality, and history.
Stripe Discriminates Against Witches 🧙
Payment processing companies decide who is empowered to buy and sell online—and their policies show a gross misunderstanding of metaphysical practitioners.
Five ways to fake it until you make it as a techie in Mexico 🤓
Despite the title, this article seems to have some comedically insightfully thoughts that might give you a chuckle no matter where you are on the planet. You might even learn a thing or two!
What happens if technology learns to read our minds? 🧠
The promise of neurotechnology to make lives better is growing. But do we need a new set of rights to protect the integrity of our minds?
Why the rest of the world shrugged at the Facebook Papers 🤷
“Very little of what I have read about the papers comes as a surprise.”
Honorary mentions
The Nature Conservancy: 2021 Global Photo Contest Winners 📸
Want to learn new things fast? Try this. ⚡
Origami Lunar Habitat that unfolds 750 times its own size 🌕
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