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- commercetools | The eCommerce solution for innovators and visionaries commercetools.com
commercetools | The eCommerce solution for innovators and visionaries
- Sorting 2 Tons of Lego, The software Side · Jacques Mattheij jacquesmattheij.com
For part 1, see here. Overview of the software components All the software written for this project is in Python. I’m not an expert python programmer, far from…
- Sorting 2 Metric Tons of Lego · Jacques Mattheij jacquesmattheij.com
One of my uncles cursed me with the LEGO bug, when I was 6 he gave me his collection because he was going to university. My uncle and I are relatively close in…
Illustration by Ben Wiseman. In the heart of San Francisco, the gig economy reigns supreme. Walk intoa grocery store, and a large number of shoppers you see are…
- Children learn best when engaged in the living world not on screens – Nicholas Tampio | Aeon Essays aeon.co
A rooster crows and awakens my family at the farm where we are staying for a long weekend. The air is crisp, and stars twinkle in the sky as the Sun rises over…
- GDPR Hysteria · Jacques Mattheij jacquesmattheij.com
In another week the GDPR , or the General Data Protection Regulation will become enforceable and it appears that unlike any other law to date this particular…
- Anker’s EverCam is a truly wireless smart security camera with 365 days of battery life theverge.com
Image: Anker / Eufy EverCam, a new security camera from the Anker-owned smart home brand Eufy, launched today on Kickstarter and it looks seriously impressive.…
#DeleteFacebook has gathered momentum since the Cambridge Analytica fallout.Photograph: Mladen Antonov/AFP/Getty Images F or too many people considering leaping…
- Opinion | YouTube, the Great Radicalizer nytimes.com
Jennifer Heuer At one point during the 2016 presidential election campaign, I watched a bunch of videos of Donald Trump rallies on YouTube. I was writing an…
- Bitcoin Is Ridiculous. Blockchain Is Dangerous bloomberg.com
On the days when Bitcoin crashes, a holiday atmosphere takes over in my corners of the internet. People tweet screengrabs of Reddit fights. It’s always good fun…
Adapted from “We Are The Very Model Of Modern Humanist Technologists”, a lightning talk given at # foocamp 2017 in San Francisco on Saturday, November 4th,…
Internet Around the world, a handful of visionaries are plotting an alternative online future. Is it really possible to remake the internet in a way that’s…
- TV, retail, advertising and cascading collapses ben-evans.com
Two months ago I gave a presentation talking about the fundamental structural trends in tech - on the one hand, we talk about what we can build on the…
- A techie’s rough guide to GDPR cennydd.com
[This was originally written for my upcoming book Future Ethics , but might be too boring to make the final draft. I must stress this post does not constitute…
A sample gene ontology model from http://wandora.org/wiki/Topic_map_conversion_of_Gene_Ontology For the last year I have been slowly moving to the realization…
- Dude, you broke the future! - Charlie's Diary antipope.org
This is the text of my keynote speech at the 34th Chaos Communication Congress in Leipzig, December 2017. (You can also watch it on YouTube, but it runs to…
- The Untold Story of Ableton Live—the Program That Transformed Electronic Music Performance Forever thump.vice.com · Archived on
The history of Ableton usually starts in 2001, when the Berlin-based software company released their first product, Ableton Live—a digital audio workstation and…
- Juno juno.legal
Solicitors who take the stress out of moving home. Our legal fee Selling From £695 plus VAT and searches Get a quote Buying From £795 plus VAT and searches…
AEM isn’t particularly awful software. It does a few interesting things and in general does what it does relatively well. It’s just that it isn’t special, and…
- Bose Sleepbuds can silence snores and barking dogs theverge.com
Image: Bose Two years ago we discovered a rather remarkable set of smart earplugs from a company called Hush that could silence the noise around you as you…
- Views from the Top - ACM Queue queue.acm.org
The September/October issue of acmqueue is out now The Soft Side of Software Business/Management PDF October 31, 2017 Volume 15, issue 5 Views from the Top Try…
I’m James Bridle . I’m a writer and artist concerned with technology and culture. I usually write on my own blog, but frankly I don’t want what I’m talking…
B ig Tech is broken. Suddenly, a wide range of journalists and politicians agree on this. For decades, most of the media and political establishment accepted…
André Staltz The Web began dying in 2014, here's how 30 Oct 2017 Before the year 2014, there were many people using Google, Facebook, and Amazon. Today, there…
Illustration by Amanda Wray Robots are hiding in plain sight. It’s time we stop ignoring them. There’s a chart I came across earlier this year, and not only…
- What We Get Wrong About Technology timharford.com
Tim Harford — Article — What We Get Wrong About Technology
At the end of June, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook had hit a new level: two billion monthly active users. That number, the company’s preferred ‘metric’…
- Introducing Video Indexer, a cloud service to unlock insights from your videos | Blog | Microsoft Azure azure.microsoft.com
The amount of video on the internet is growing exponentially and will continue to grow for the foreseeable future. And the growth is across multiple industries,…
You open your laptop in an airport, at a coffee shop, or perhaps in your hotel or conference room. You sit down to work, select the correct Wi-Fi network, and ……
- what3words | Addressing the world what3words.com
Navigation & Mobility Automotive & Transportation Deliveries, Logistics & Ecommerce Postal Services Travel & Tourism National Infrastructure & Government UAVs…
- Design in the Era of the Algorithm | Big Medium bigmedium.com
This is the prose version of a talk I gave in May 2017 at Pixel Up! in Capetown and at An Event Apart in Boston. It riffs on ideas I first explored in my…
- Why Are QR Codes Everywhere? medium.com
- History of QR Code | QRcode.com | DENSO WAVE qrcode.com
History of QR Code How was the QR Code created? | How has it come to be used so widely? | And what is its future? Section 1 : Untold story of QR Code…
- Google Jobs will break 90 years of welfare policy - here's what the policy response should be blog.memespring.co.uk · Archived on
In 2013, Ian Duncan-Smith said "looking for work should be a full-time job" . This was to be policed through the 'claimant commitment' a document that would…
- America has become so anti-innovation – it's economic suicide theguardian.com
If you’ve used the internet at any point in the past few weeks, you’ve probably heard of Juicero. Juicero is a San Francisco-based company that sells a $400…
- Ten Year Futures ben-evans.com
Now that mobile is maturing and its growth is slowing, everyone in tech turns to thinking about what the Next Big Thing will be. It's easy to say that 'machine…
Hi, I’m Jeff Dunn. You may not know me in my new role as CEO of Juicero as I’ve only been here since November. But I’ve been involved with the company for the…
Once in a while—not quite often enough to be a crisis, but just often enough to be a trope—people in the United States will freak out because a huge number of…
- The Like Button Ruined the Internet theatlantic.com
Here’s a little parable. A friend of mine was so enamored of Google Reader that he built a clone when it died. It was just like the original, except that you…
- UK tech industry not immune to Brexit, trade group warns theguardian.com
- Who Will Command The Robot Armies? idlewords.com
Idle Words > Talks > Who Will Command The Robot Armies? This is the text version of a talk I gave on November 11, 2016, at the Direction conference in Sydney.…
- The Government IT Self-Harm Playbook medium.com
2014: the high point of government’s war on Big IT Are we really this stupid? At a time when other governments are getting a grip on their IT , the UK is in…
- Inside the Obama Tech Surge as it Hacks the Pentagon and VA — Backchannel backchannel.com · Archived on
Star Spangled Geeks To the dismay of government contractors, the United States Digital Service is gloriously hacking away in the VA and the Pentagon. USDS…
- Software companies in Edinburgh nobugs.org
This is a list of 68 Edinburgh companies which employ software developers. The list is maintained by Andrew Birkett . If you’ve found this page useful, or you’d…
- Scottish Tech Map | Hacker News news.ycombinator.com
We are a open site listing tech events around Scotland. Open means anyone can add an event, like a wiki. We can import data from suitable open sources, and most…
- Remarks at the SASE Panel On The Moral Economy of Tech idlewords.com
Idle Words > Talks > The Moral Economy of Tech This is the text version of remarks I gave on June 26, 2016, at a panel on the Moral Economy of Tech at the SASE…
- Pinpoint by Greg Milner review – how is GPS changing our world? theguardian.com
We have all had the experience of getting lost while being informed of precisely where we are.Photograph: Alamy I n early 2008, for quixotic reasons that…
Photo: Moving Day by Nicolas Huk Between 2000 and 2010, Bryan and I lived a somewhat nomadic lifestyle. We moved more than fifteen times, including stays of…
- Ghost in the Shell, over two decades old, remains our most challenging film about technology newstatesman.com
Japanese animated films and anime series are weird. But the release of the classic Ghost in the Shell over 20 years ago drove the genre both upwards by reaching…