FTI 2020 Trend Report for Entertainment, Media, & Technology [FTI]
FTI 2020 Trend Report for Entertainment, Media, & Technology — from futuretodayinstitute.com Our 3rd annual industry report on emerging entertainment, media and technology trends […]
Facebook’s Brain-Computer Interface Project for AR Glasses
A brain-computer interface for AR? It could happen sooner than you think. The Verge’s Casey Newton got hold of a leaked audio transcript of internal […]
Ed Tech News Roundup: Screen Time, LEGO, and Enchiladas
Howdy, folks! Welcome to another in a series of biweekly ed tech news roundups. We hope you enjoy this one, and if you have a […]
Google’s war on deepfakes: As election looms, it shares ton of AI-faked videos [Tung]
Google’s war on deepfakes: As election looms, it shares ton of AI-faked videos — from zdnet.com by Liam Tung Google has created 3,000 videos using […]
Oculus Connect News – Hand Tracking and Social VR
As expected, there were no major hardware releases at Oculus Connect 6. But we didn’t lack for VR news. The major announcement was that hand […]
“Someone is always listening” [Future Today Institute]
Someone is always listening — from Future Today Institute Excerpt: Very Near-Futures Scenarios (2020 – 2022): Optimistic: Big tech and consumer device industries agree to a single […]
Microsoft President: Democracy Is At Stake. Regulate Big Tech [Shahani]
Microsoft President: Democracy Is At Stake. Regulate Big Tech — from npr.org by Aarti Shahani Excerpts: Regulate us. That’s the unexpected message from one of […]
Reflections on “Uh-oh: Silicon Valley is building a Chinese-style social credit system” [Elgan]
Uh-oh: Silicon Valley is building a Chinese-style social credit system — from fastcompany.com by Mike Elgan In China, scoring citizens’ behavior is official government policy. […]
Lights, Camera. Facebook!
Is there a better way to share your experiences than with a video? As much as we love writing (and we do!) if a picture […]
FTC reportedly hits Facebook with record $5 billion settlement [Lapowsky & Kelly]
FTC reportedly hits Facebook with record $5 billion settlement — from wired.com by Issie Lapowsky and Caitlin Kelly Excerpt: AFTER MONTHS OF negotiations, the Federal Trade […]
Sharing
Nearly all of us share something online, be it twitter LinkedIn Facebook WhatsApp etc. Whether it’s your coffee, dinner, family party, links to a blog […]
Reflections on “Clay Shirky on Mega-Universities and Scale” [Christian]
Clay Shirky on Mega-Universities and Scale — from philonedtech.com by Clay Shirky [This was a guest post by Clay Shirky that grew out of a […]
