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Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom on Free Speech, Artificial Intelligence, and Internet Addiction.
Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom on Free Speech, Artificial Intelligence, and Internet Addiction. I sat down with Kevin Systrom, the CEO of Instagram, in June to interview him for my feature story, “Instagram’s CEO Wants to Clean Up the Internet,” and for “Is Instagram Going Too Far to Protect Our Feelings,” a special that ran on CBS …
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 word. “!!!پول !!!پول” he’d write. “Money!!! Money!!!” He needed money …
Verizon Takes Fourth Amendment Stand in Carpenter V. United States
Verizon Takes Fourth Amendment Stand in Carpenter V. United States Fourteen of the biggest US tech companies filed a brief with the Supreme Court on Monday supporting more rigorous warrant requirements for law enforcement seeking certain cell phone data, such as location information. In the statement, the signatories—Google, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft among them—argue that the …
The Best Way to Test Students? Make Them Explain It On Video
The Best Way to Test Students? Make Them Explain It On Video As a physics professor, I have two jobs. The first, obviously, is to help students understand physics. That makes me something of a coach. But I want to talk about my second job: evaluating what students understand about physics. You might call this grading …
Nikola’s $35,000 Zero Electric UTV Offers More Torque Than a Tank
Nikola’s $35,000 Zero Electric UTV Offers More Torque Than a Tank If you love kicking up mud and bombing around off-road but feel guilty spewing all that carbon dioxide, Nikola Powersports has you covered—assuming you’ve got $35,000 to spend on an electric off-roader with more torque than a tank. I’ll pause while you let that settle …
This Stress-Free Fish Tank Lets Plants Do the Cleaning
This Stress-Free Fish Tank Lets Plants Do the Cleaning Owning a fish is an exercise in mental fortitude. You might think your little underwater friend will bring tranquility to your life, that you will experience the joy of pet ownership without the commitment or mess. Wrong. To own a fish is to experience a near-constant anxiety …
How Solar Eclipses Illuminate the Marvel of Science
How Solar Eclipses Illuminate the Marvel of Science On Monday, August 21, 2017, the world will go under, or so it might well feel like if you position yourself along a 70-mile-wide swath of the US from South Carolina to Oregon. From here you can witness the moon move in front of the sun in the …
James Damore’s Google Memo Gets Science All Wrong
James Damore’s Google Memo Gets Science All Wrong In early August, a Google engineer named James Damore posted a document titled “Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber” to an internal online discussion group. His memo was a calm attempt to point out all the ways Google has gone wrong in making gender representation among its employees a corporate …