People Staring at Computers In 2011 I published a series of photos taken with the laptops in two New York City Apple Stores, as part of my ongoing exploration of surveillance, face analysis, and computer-mediated interaction. In response, Apple contacted the Secret Service and they raided my…

Please just pick something and support it A decade and a half of instability: The history of Google messaging apps Sixteen years after the launch of Google Talk, Google messaging is still a mess. Ron Amadeo – Aug 25, 2021 6:00 am | 321 Just a few of the many Google messaging logos. Can you name them…

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Seit einigen Monaten macht in den Echokammern der Gegner von Corona-Massnahmen eine Gruppierung von sich reden, die laut eigenen Angaben aus «kritischen» Angehörigen der Polizei und anderer Sicherheits­behörden besteht. Die anonyme Vereinigung, die sich «Wir für Euch» nennt und eine gleichnamige…

Adjust Share Amigo Bob Cantisano didn’t think he was going to die. But his wife, Jenifer Bliss, who had cared for him through eight years of throat cancer, could see that his condition had taken a turn for the worse. The tumor in his neck had imploded, leaving an open wound that Jenifer kept clean…

Unabhängige Recherchen unterstützen Unsere unabhängigen Recherchen werden erst durch Spenden unserer Leserinnen und Leser möglich. Jetzt unterstützen Die Milchlobby: Wie unsere Milch Klima und Umwelt schadet Die Milchlobby: Wie unsere Milch Klima und Umwelt schadet Werbekampagnen und Lobbying haben…

Danielle Del Plato In 1947, Albert Einstein, writing in this magazine, proposed the creation of a single world government to protect humanity from the threat of the atomic bomb. His utopian idea did not take hold, quite obviously, but today, another visionary is building the simulacrum of a…

I saw my name followed by “RN” for the first time on July 27, 2020. The next day, my instructor, or preceptor, and I were assigned to the COVID intensive care unit at our hospital in Nashville, Tenn. I read the assignment sheet with a strange knot in my chest. It wasn’t fear or dread rising into my…

Over the last few months, I dove really deep into the topic of addiction and compulsive use of the Internet. I feel my relationship with the Internet is much healthier now because of it and I wanted to share with you what it looks like in practice when you apply these rules. I wake up with an alarm…

Was kostet eine Stunde bei Ihnen?Caro: Ich möchte diese Frage nicht beantworten. Billie: Ich lieber auch nicht. Warum?Billie: Einerseits, weil ich nicht immer gleich viel verlange. Anderer­seits wäre es doof, hier mit Zahlen um sich zu werfen. Denn Gender, Haut­farbe, Herkunft, ob wir eine…

The natural sciences are under attack around the world. From political appointees who deny the climate-changing effects of polluting industries to the corporate funding of anti-science research, highly qualified experts are now facing severe funding cuts, harassment and pressure from vested…

Dieser Beitrag handelt von einer Kampagne der TX Group, des grössten privaten Medienkonzerns der Schweiz. Die Gruppe besitzt neben «20 Minuten» sämtliche Titel der Tamedia und kontrolliert ein Redaktions­netzwerk mit einer täglichen Auflage von über einer Million. Ziel der Kampagne mit Artikeln im…

111 years ago almost to the day, a murder was committed which ultimately led to the first criminal trial to use fingerprints as evidence. We've all since watched enough crime shows to understand that fingerprints are unique personal biometric attributes and to date, no two people have ever been…

“Can you give me a thumbs up?” the surgeon asks Jerry Majetich, an Iraq War veteran, during a checkup this spring at a Boston hospital. “Can you make me a fist? And extend your fingers?” It is an odd, even jarring, series of requests to make of a patient whose right arm has been amputated above the…

(Photo: Alexander_P/shutterstock.com) In 1920, the popular newspaper comic strip Jerry on the Job was adapted by Bray Studios into a few animated films. In “The Bomb Idea,” Jerry and another character read that “Bolsheviki” are on the loose throughout the country, and that all citizens should be on…

Perhaps you’ve noticed that ebooks are awful. I hate them, but I don’t know why I hate them. Maybe it’s snobbery. Perhaps, despite my long career in technology and media, I’m a secret Luddite. Maybe I can’t stand the idea of looking at books as computers after a long day of looking at computers as…

«Wenns die Richtigen trifft, hab ich nichts dagegen», kommentiert ein rechtsextremer Querdenker in einem Telegram-Chat den Mord an einem Tankstellen-Kassier in Deutschland. Der 20-Jährige hatte sich am letzten Samstag geweigert, einem Mann, der keine Maske trug, Bier zu verkaufen, worauf dieser ihm…

Heute beginnt die #CoronaApartheid in der Schweiz. Das ist der dunkelste Tag in der Geschichte unseres Landes. Nicolas A. Rimoldi, Twitter, 13. September 2021. Es war ein Abgang voller Pathos: Als die Schweizer FDP am Dienstag vor einer Woche auf Twitter verkündete, sie unterstütze die Ausweitung…

Clayton Christensen, a Harvard Business School professor named one of the best thinkers in the field of management, said that we don’t really buy products or services. Rather, we “hire” something to get a job done. Based on this, think about why you continuously waste your talent by watching other…

This story was featured in The Must Read, a newsletter in which our editors recommend one can’t-miss story every weekday. Sign up here to get it in your inbox. 1. Rhapsody in Blue For all the complex techniques required to succeed, the objective is remarkably simple: Go as deep as you can go on one…

D ie Nachricht poppt an einem Samstagabend um 21.10 Uhr auf meinem Handy auf. Ein Mann, den ich noch nie in meinem Leben gesehen habe, schreibt mir: „Ich weiß was dünn ist … ob es das richtige ist sich die Gesundheit so zu ruinieren musst du selbst wissen Ich würds dir aber raten wenn ich mir dein…

There’s nothing new about clickbait posts on Facebook. Social media is a relentless contest for attention, like junior high. We’re used to seeing a lot of harmless, banal mommy-chum like this: Aw, how funny! Click, share. This, however is a little different: That first post generated 21 comments and…

Verschiedene Exponenten der Coronabewegung stellten nach der Demo vom letzten Donnerstag in Bern zwei Behauptungen zum Hergang der Ereignisse auf. Diverse Medien haben sie übernommen.Überprüft wurden

On the evening of 7 December 2010, in a hushed San Francisco auditorium, former Google engineer Patri Friedman sketched out the future of humanity. The event was hosted by the Thiel Foundation, established four years earlier by the arch-libertarian PayPal founder Peter Thiel to “defend and promote…

By now you've probably heard that Apple plans to push a new and uniquely intrusive surveillance system out to many of the more than one billion iPhones it has sold, which all run the behemoth's proprietary, take-it-or-leave-it software. This new offensive is tentatively slated to begin with the…

U m 7.30 Uhr macht Christian Schulz das erste Mal Feierabend. Zwei Stunden hat er an diesem Montagmorgen im Licht der Neonröhren die Parkgarage eines Einkaufszentrums gesäubert. Mit Laubbläsern hat er Zigarettenstummel, Plastikverpackungen und alles, was die Menschen hier in einer Woche fallen…

This hard-hitting blogpost by Ken Murray, a retired Los Angeles family doctor, helped open up discussions about why doctors routinely administer treatments to dying patients that they would adamantly refuse for themselves. Years ago, Charlie, a highly respected orthopaedist and a mentor of mine,…

We’ve spent 130 years indoctrinating kids with the same structure. Now, as some of us enter a post-lockdown world, I’d like to propose a useful (though some might say radical) way to reimagine the curriculum. It’s been a century of biology, chemistry, arithmetic, social studies and the rest. So long…

When Ksenia Coffman started editing Wikipedia, she was like a tourist in Buenos Aires in the 1950s. She came to learn the tango, admire the architecture, sip maté. She didn’t know there was a Nazi problem. But Coffman, who was born in Soviet-era Russia and lives in Silicon Valley, is an intensely…

Recht & Politik Playlists: 'dgwk2021' videos starting here / audio 45 min 2021-02-27 2021-03-06 211 Fahrplan Sie gehörte zu den am besten gehüteten Geheimnissen der Schweiz: Die Liste der Namen von Firmen, die Kriegsmaterial und besondere militärische Güter exportieren. In einem langjährigen…

We built a custom 74 tooth cog, and mated it to a 24 tooth direct mount chainring. The result was one of the slowest mountain bikes ever made. The gear was so low that we could barely keep the bike upright while riding it. What can it tow? Does it climb well? Find out today on Berm Peak! Get Early…

Votez-Flyer von Mickry3 für die eingetragenen Partnerschaften 2002 Es ist ziemlich genau 19 Jahre her, dass wir im Kanton Zürich über die eingetragenen Partnerschaften für homosexuelle Paare abstimmten. Dagegen waren damals die selben Kreise wie heute: SVP & Frömmler. Obwohl wir wussten, dass ein Ja…

The Missing Cryptoqueen Dr Ruja Ignatova persuaded millions to join her financial revolution. Then she disappeared. Why? Jamie Bartlett presents a story of greed, deceit and herd madness. Available now 12. Wanted: Dead or Alive? Duration: 33:25 All available episodes (13 total)

Hi, if you are reading this essay then congratulations, you are still alive. And if you are alive, then you have either gotten the COVID-19 vaccine, or you still have the opportunity to get the vaccine against COVID-19. And holy fuck, if you aren’t fucking vaccinated against COVID-19, then you need…

Das Projekt OpenStreetMap ist wohl die detailreichste und aktuellste Karte der Welt. Zusammengestellt wird sie von Freiwilligen – denen manchmal sture Verwaltungen im Weg stehen. Vor allem Waldwege können schlecht auf Satellitenbildern erkannt werden. Freiwillige benutzen GPS-Geräte, um die…

Behind the mantra of getting “1% better every day,” 21-year-old Chris Nikic races to become the first person with Down syndrome to complete an Ironman triathlon. #ESPN #SCFeatured ✔️Subscribe to ESPN+ http://espnplus.com/youtube ✔️ Get the ESPN App: http://www.espn.com/espn/apps/espn ✔️Subscribe to…

Coronazertifikat: Grosse Worte um den kleinen Piks Nr. 35 – 2. September 2021 Von Der Bundesrat zögert mit der Einführung einer erweiterten Zertifikatspflicht. Dabei wäre jetzt der richtige Zeitpunkt. Die Kantone drängen darauf, und bis auf die SVP sind alle Parteien dafür. Demnach müsste, wer in…