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Karsten Lemm
@kalemm
Reporter • Photographer • Occasional webdev
Tech & business writer • 16 yrs in San Francisco, now Berlin (Germany) • Please visit my website for details: https://www.kalemm.com
43 Posts
One more reason to use an #adblocker whenever you can – e.g. by surfing the Web with the Brave or Vivaldi browsers instead of Chrome. Or using ProtonVPN, which has a built-in blocker even for apps. #technology #privacy #security By Reed Albergotti The Scene Six months ago, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and other tech luminaries called for a pause on certain developments of artificial intelligence. Since then, companies and consumers have only accelerated their adoption of the technolo By David Kitchen, Associate Professor of Geology, University of Richmond When soaring temperatures , extreme weather and catastrophic wildfires hit the headlines, people start asking for quick fixes to climate change. The U.S. government just announced the first awards from a US$3. Essentially a write-up of this #privacy #report by the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab: A telling graph Life expectancy for US states vs countries It is despicable that the Covid vaccine manufacturers are going to charge more than $110/dose for the new XBB.1.5 boosters when available in mid-September. The US government previously paid ~$25/dose, supplied free of charge, and subsidized these companies with untold $ billions. By Reed Albergotti The News In a major milestone, biotech company Recursion used artificial intelligence and supercomputers to predict an unprecedented number of new possible chemical interactions that might lead to a myriad of effective drugs. Recursion combined a database of 15,00 The #Worldcoin project might be the most cynical #tech scheme ever devised: The #crypto company Tools for Humanity aims to… scan the eyeballs of all 8 billion humans, and then use that one-time ID to offer small allotments of cryptocurrency to support them in a world upended by art “The Era of Ultracheap Stuff Is Under Threat”
The #wallstreetjournal#wallstreetjournal is sounding the alarm here: The twilight of ultracheap Asian factory labor is emerging as the latest test of the globalized manufacturing model, which over the past three decades has delivered a vast array of inexpensively produced goods to What the success of “Barbie” says about #hype , #marketing and #Internet culture: The internet has always traded on hyperbole, but that hype is growing exponentially louder, always needing to one-up the last round of over-excitement. The latest example of this is the response to Ba By James D. Long, Professor of Political Science, Co-founder of the Political Economy Forum, University of Washington and Victor Menaldo, Professor of Political Science, Co-founder of the Political Economy Forum, University of Washington Donald Trump has declared, “ I am your retri When AI goes to War
War is getting automated. Forget “Terminator”, think intelligent drone swarms and submarines piloted by #AI . The @financialtimes article below (via informed ) describes a new gold rush in #SiliconValley : #investors and tech #startups are benefiting from the te Policy matters. As Ashley Johnson details in a new ITIF report, the United States emerged as a global leader in digital policy in the 1990s by moving early on key policy issues and adopting a light-touch, pro-innovation regulatory regime. As a result, the early Internet was large By Robert Reich Friends, Of all the books I’ve written, the one that is closest to my heart is THE COMMON GOOD , which came out in 2018. Why? Because the common good recognizes that we’re all in this together. Instead of being self-seeking individuals who happen to live within the s This will come as welcome news to anyone suffering from having to work with #Microsoft #Teams : The #EU has opened an #antitrust investigation into Microsoft for bundling Office and Teams. I find Teams to be so clunky that using it often means wasting time: Where is that file I’m lo Shows that people don’t mind being manipulated by algorithms – which is scary in itself. #socialmedia #AI An important NEJM editorial by HHS Secretary Becerra and Ashish Jha on Project NextGen —"our fight against SARS-CoV-2 is not over" —"$5 billion investment will focus on 3 main areas" better, variant-proof, pan-sarbecovirus vaccines; mucosal (nasal) vaccines; and monoclonal antibo #Florida ’s corals are the latest victims of the record-breaking #heat this summer – and the escalating #ClimateEmergency . In a summer that has scorched both land and sea, the precarious future of Florida’s corals offers the latest example of what stands to be irretrievably lost Europe’s battle to fend off the far right
Has Spain’s (current) prime minister Pedro Sánchez found a way to keep right-wing extremists in check? Many democrats in other European countries are looking to Madrid, wondering whether there’s anything to learn from Sánchez’ better-than-expected election results. Prospect Magazin