Tag Archives: RecommendedReading
Recommended Reading: Inside the PlayStation 5 with Mark Cerny
PlayStation 5 uncovered: The Mark Cerny tech deep dive
Richard Leadbetter,
Eurogamer
If you're craving even more explanation on the PlayStation 5 than lead architect Mark Cerny shared during his in-depth chat a couple weeks ago, get comfy. Eur...
Recommended Reading: What happens when bands don’t tour
How coronavirus is destroying the livelihood of music's behind-the-scenes workforce
Samantha Hissong,
Rolling Stone
By now, you've watched, or at least heard about, a musician who's cooped up at home turning to livestreams to connect with fans. Wh...
Recommended Reading: Dead Sea Scroll fragments in DC are fakes
Exclusive: 'Dead Sea Scrolls' at the Museum of the Bible are all forgeries
Michael Greshko
National Geographic
When the Museum of the Bible opened in Washington, DC in 2017, it funded a research project that examined pieces of what was thought to...
Recommended Reading: The AI surveillance company watching Utah
This small company is turning Utah into a surveillance panopticon
Jason Koebler, Emanuel Maiberg, and Joseph Cox
Motherboard
If you think Clearview's AI-powered facial recognition is a major problem, buckle up. An artificial intelligence company c...
Recommended Reading: The CIA-owned company that helped it spy on the world
The intelligence coup of the century
Greg Miller,
The Washington Post
This in-depth report tells the story of Crypto AG, a Switzerland-based company that achieved success for its code-making machines during World War II. The company eventually bec...
Recommended Reading: The lasting effect of the Iowa Caucuses
Iowa might have screwed up the whole nomination process
Nate Silver,
FiveThirtyEight
By now you probably know the story. The Iowa Democratic Party decided to use an app to report results from its caucuses this week. These events were the first pri...
Recommended Reading: Facial recognition, police and privacy
The secretive company that might end privacy as we know it
Kashmir Hill,
The New York Times
Clearview is a startup that developed a facial recognition system that matches a photo of a person to publicly available images. Those can be from Facebook...
Recommended Reading: The internet sleuths who caught the Astros cheating
How the internet helped crack the Astros' sign-stealing case
Joon Lee,
ESPN
One of the biggest sports stories of the year has already broke, and it's barely mid-January. If you haven't heard, Major League Baseball determined the Houston Astros use...
Recommended Reading: The science fiction of William Gibson
How William Gibson keeps his science fiction real
Joshua Rothman,
The New Yorker
While a lot of sci-fi is obsessed with the distant future, one of the best authors of the genre takes a different approach. The New Yorker explains how William Gibson...