An Oral History of Wikipedia, the Web’s Encyclopedia
The story of the crowd-sourced encyclopedia.
The compelling story of a hacker who stopped a massive cyber-attack, only to be arrested.
The internet has dealt with unprecendented levels of traffic during lockdown, and has largely managed to cope.
A self-driving boat is helping with the discovery and exploration of shipwrecks.
Clearview AI’s offering to police forces of facial recognition using images scraped from social profiles and elsewhere across the web is either a dystopian vision of a surveillance state, or next generation policing tool, depending on your perspective. This story suggests the company’s pitch may be out of sync with the reality.
A look at the ingenious, secretive, technical research undertaken in the 1960s on what now seem ludicrously underpowered machines, that formed some of the earliest steps in what would eventually become the field of facial recognition software.
An account of how a positive vision for technology’s impact on society curdled over the course of a decade, narrated by people at the centre of the industry – from the Arab Spring, to the slow-down of Moore’s Law, to the launch of Instagram.
The story of a Silicon Valley cheerleader, and significant investor, turned vocal critic.
Paul Ford (writer of the fantastic What is Code? story from Journal 3 – bit.ly/bloomberg-code) assesses an industry under increasing public scrutiny.
A dive into the predictive algorithms prevalent in many digital applications.