Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman for The Washington Post Up until recently, the cost of being careless about our privacy as everyday folk has been minor or… Read more “Forget Congress. Facebook’s real problem is in Europe. – The Washington Post”

From the Google Research Blog Holy moly this will be some next level spy shit. Guaranteed. In “Looking to Listen at the Cocktail Party”, we present a… Read more “Research Blog: Looking to Listen: Audio-Visual Speech Separation”

Vlad Savov for The Verge I agree, but I also take issue with Vlad’s dismissal of the androidone initiative and seemingly the Pixel and Nexus phones as… Read more “Android’s trust problem isn’t getting better – The Verge”

Vitamins in pill form have always seemed odd to me. DEREK BERES for The Big Think

Andy Pasztor reports for WSJ: Government and industry experts have tentatively concluded that engineering and testing errors by Northrop Grumman Corp. caused a U.S. spy satellite to… Read more “Probes Point to Northrop Grumman Errors NOT SpaceX in Spy-Satellite Failure”

This. Is. Awesome.

It just feels so much like a B movie comedy script full of bumbling idiotic bafoons

One of the reasons I find it hard to believe that Facebook will be able to fix what is rotten at the core of the platform is… Read more “All Hail King Zuckerberg?”