A collection of some of the best links from around the web, manually curated.
What a beautiful monster of an article. I’m offering you a bet: If you read this now, you’ll remember it in five years time, nah, make that ten years even.
Google is offering to store all of our photos, forever, without charging money for it. So what’s in it for the company? The short answer: data. Lots of it. The long answer: A new part of business that could have as much impact for Google as Gmail did 10 years ago. Key quote: «There’s no doubt Google Photos is a massive landgrab for personal data — at a time when visual imagery is the biggest social currency of the web.»
How long until a robot cries? A closer look at robots that learn to read human emotions – and tell a fake smile apart from a real one.
A complex, thought-provoking text on the nature of drones: about terrorist-ish patterns of behaviour, remote controlled suicide bombers and the pains of killing in shifts.
Don’t judge this piece by its title, it’s way better. Tim Urban, quite likely the smartest and wittiest blogger in the whole web, recounts meeting Elon Musk. Elon Musk, the man who wants to change how we power our homes (and the world, ultimately) and how we get from A to B (where B is Mars, ultimately). A great profile of a fascinating person. If the humble intro cartoons don’t win you over, I don’t know what ever will.
Hundreds of thousands of surgeries are already carried out by remotely controlled robots. Their big advantage over human surgeons: Their metal hands don’t shake. Unless they have been hacked, that is.
«Keith was made in 7 days with no money, no ideas, and no camera.»
«Why can’t death feel more like life?» This is not yet another longread on some futurist aiming to overcome death, but the fascinating story of Paul Bennett who wanted to make death feel better.
An excerpt from security expert Bruce Schneier’s new book «Data and Goliath». Read it.
Good piece on how the internet is changing language, not just by introducing new words and acronyms, but increasingly by creatively messing with syntax. Because yolo, obvs.
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