Facebook Enables Marketing to a Strictly White Only Audience

I should be more precise: Facebook enables marketing to a strictly 'white affinity' only adience. Doug Neil of Universal Pictures and Facebook's Jim Underwood presented Big Box Office: Marketing Films in a Mobile World at SxSW a few weeks back. They promised the audience that they would get to hear about "the best approaches for … Continue reading Facebook Enables Marketing to a Strictly White Only Audience →

Artificial Intelligence as a Service

Companies like Google and IBM are opening up services through APIs that will allow you to do things like check if an image contains adult/violent content, check to see what mood a face on a picture is in, or detect the language a piece of text is written in. Artificial Intelligence as a Service as … Continue reading Artificial Intelligence as a Service →

Morozov: tech firms now run western politics

For the past few years I have been saying that more and more of our lives will very soon be under the governance of the big Silicon Valley information giants. Living in Google's jurisdiction as it were. Morozov is much more articulate than me. He is now convinced that once this transformation is complete there … Continue reading Morozov: tech firms now run western politics →

Raspberry Pi, ownCloud and Ubuntu

ownCloud has really matured in the last couple of months. Both from a technical perspective and as an open source community based project that just kicks ass. The free software replacement of Dropbox (and eventually GoogleDocs) is fast becoming one the key pieces of infrastructure for a decentralised and open web. I love how absolutely … Continue reading Raspberry Pi, ownCloud and Ubuntu →

A Video That Every Potential Juror Should See

I've written before about the use of police bodycams, mainly looking at what the first person perspective might mean for the way we will see (police) violence in the future. The ACLU has written an blog post about a video that clearly shows the level of manipulation that is possible for the police around their … Continue reading A Video That Every Potential Juror Should See →