In an unnerving article, “I Used Apple AirTags, Tiles and a GPS Tracker to Watch My Husband’s Every Move,” Kashmir Hill describes the advanced, and affordable, technology available to individuals …
Spouse Surveillance
Author: Jessie McCormack
A Fight Over the Right to Repair Cars Turns Ugly
In this fascinating article from Wired, Aarian Marshall explains how the complexity of computer systems in cars has now resulted in thorny legal issues about intellectual property–the rights of car …
It Could Happen (T)here: Transnational Advocacy Strategies Around Social Media
In this timely article, Amanda Besar, Jennifer Li, and Valentina Vera Quiroz–writing for the Institute for Rebooting Social Media–re-cap the discussions from workshops dedicated to analyzing the interactions between social …
Upcoming Digital Humanities Events
Check out these upcoming Digital Humanities workshops and institutes, on myriad fascinating topics and hosted by various universities and institutions! 1. NYC Digital Humanities Week— February 7-11, 2022 2. Data …
Join us for Jer Thorp’s “Living in Data”– Sept. 22 at 6:30pm!
The MS Program in Data Analysis and Visualization and the Mina Rees Library invite you to attend a talk this week by data artist Jer Thorpe. Living in Data Jer …
Lessons from the DRI – Coding & Communication: Knowing What We Say Rather than What We Mean
The GC Digital Research Institute (DRI) educates in more ways even than advertised. GC Digital Initiatives (GCDI), the program that runs the DRI, advertises that it will teach CUNY students, …
The Dictatorship of Data
Robert McNamara is remembered as JFK’s and LBJ’s secretary of defense, who was a primary motivator in escalating the Vietnam War. What is less known about McNamara–as discussed in this …
A radical new technique lets AI learn with practically no data
This article from MIT discusses a new paper from University of Waterloo (Ontario), in which researchers suggest that there may be a way to trim down on the number of …
Why Facebook Can’t Fix Itself
This article from The New Yorker dives into the longstanding content moderation troubles at Facebook. At heart is the difficulty of balancing a platform that values “free speech,” on the …
Google offers to help others with the tricky ethics of AI
Google is planning to offer new services to tech companies regarding AI ethics, despite having a spotty past itself on such issues. Some services are specific, such as detecting racial …
