836
605
Santa Cruz, California bans predictive policing in U.S. first
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-police-tech-trfn/california-city-bans-predictive-policing-in-u-s-first-idUSKBN23V2XC
5 years ago
815
532
Why the US military usually punishes misconduct but police often close ranks
https://theconversation.com/why-the-us-military-usually-punishes-misconduct-but-police-often-close-ranks-127898
543
158
Boston bans use of facial recognition technology
https://www.wbur.org/news/2020/06/23/boston-facial-recognition-ban
492
195
There is now a European standard for measuring how easy it is to repair stuff
https://de.ifixit.com/News/35879/repairability-standard-en45554
489
277
Microsoft to permanently close its retail stores
https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/26/21297400/microsoft-retail-stores-closing-cities-open
408
244
Dynamic linking
https://drewdevault.com/dynlib.html
384
274
Carving out a niche as a small artist on Spotify
https://www.stevebenjamins.com/blog/music-in-the-age-of-algorithms-47syg
375
644
Facebook announces policy changes ahead of 2020 elections
https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10112048980882521
369
271
Mobilewalla used cellphone data to estimate the demographics of protesters
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/carolinehaskins1/protests-tech-company-spying
334
186
Amazon to pay $1B+ for Zoox
https://www.axios.com/report-amazon-to-pay-1-billion-for-self-driving-tech-firm-zoox-719d293b-3799-4315-a573-a226a58bb004.html
Santa Cruz, California bans predictive policing in U.S. first