How Facebook, Apple, and Google Will Hasten the Next Era of TV Not long ago, everyone saw Hollywood and Silicon Valley as opposites. Hollywood was cool, artistic, and uniquely adept at entertaining viewers. Silicon Valley was the preserve of geeky engineers who could captivate the public […]
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Amazon Mechanical Turk Workers Have Had Enough
Amazon Mechanical Turk Workers Have Had Enough When Manish Bhatia began working on Amazon Mechanical Turk as a side gig in 2010, he was surprised to find himself completely fascinated by the work. Contrary to frequent coverage depicting the piece-work platform as a digital sweatshop offering […]
This Vegan Vlogger Harassment Scandal Exposes YouNow’s Ugly Underbelly
This Vegan Vlogger Harassment Scandal Exposes YouNow’s Ugly Underbelly When Anna Scanlon logged onto the video streaming site YouNow last Halloween, her stomach sank. Vegan Cheetah, a popular vlogger within the online vegan community, had uploaded a four-hour video in which he accused Scanlon of flashing […]
The Cloud Computing Era Could Be Nearing Its End
The Cloud Computing Era Could Be Nearing Its End Fasten your harnesses, because the era of cloud computing’s giant data centers is about to be rear-ended by the age of self-driving cars. Here’s the problem: When a self-driving car has to make snap decisions, it needs […]
My Instagram Hacker Changed My Life
My Instagram Hacker Changed My Life Mohamad, my hacker, had an air of desperation about him. When he got emails in English announcing that he was a lottery winner, or promising him access to a fat bank account, he asked me to translate them word for […]