Facebook Is About To Be Sued For Allegedly Violating Antitrust Law
Photo: Chip Somodevilla / Staff (Getty Images) More than 40 attorneys general and the U.S. government are gearing up to throw the book at the Book… Facebook… with an antitrust…
The Christchurch Shooter and YouTube’s Radicalization Trap
In an email statement, a YouTube spokesperson says that the company has made “significant progress in our work to combat hate speech on YouTube since the tragic attack at Christchurch.”…
Senate Votes to Appoint Unqualified Trump Ally Nathan Simington to the FCC
Photo: Mark Wilson (Getty Images) In another attempt to leave the mark of the Trump administration behind long after President-elect Joe Biden assumes office, the Senate today voted 49-46 along…
Orientalism, Cyberpunk 2077, and Yellow Peril in Science Fiction
2020 has been one of the most tumultuous years in recent memory, but at least, in a few weeks, the most anticipated game of the year, Cyberpunk 2077, will come…
Chuck Yeager’s 1947 Flight Inspired Our Supersonic Ambitions
Legendary test pilot Chuck Yeager—the first man to break the sound barrier and live to tell the tale—died on Monday in Los Angeles. The retired Air Force brigadier general was…
Behind the Paper That Led to a Google Researcher’s Firing
Earlier this year, Google artificial intelligence researcher Timnit Gebru sent a Twitter message to University of Washington professor Emily Bender. Gebru asked Bender if she had written about the ethical…
Uber didn’t sell its self-driving dream — it’s just outsourcing the hard work
Ride-hailing company Uber is selling its self-driving division, Advanced Technologies Group (ATG), in a move it says will accelerate its path to profitability. While no price has been revealed, the…
A simple guide to Redis and caching with NodeJS
In recent years, Redis has become a common occurrence in a Node.js application stack. Though its most popular use case is caching, Redis has many other use cases where you…
GitHub introduces dark mode and auto-merge pull request
GitHub today announced a bunch of new features at its virtual GitHub Universe conference including dark mode, auto-merge pull requests, and Enterprise Server 3.0. In the past couple of years,…
COVID-19 newsletters are sooooo 2020
Hola pandemic pals, I’ve got good news and I’ve got bad news. I’ve also got some great news (I’ll get to that later) and then I’ve got the regular news…