TED: Så spårar polisen dig utan att du kanske vet om det
A very unsexy-sounding piece of technology could mean that the police know where you go, with whom, and when: the automatic license plate reader. These cameras are innocuously placed all across small-town America to catch known criminals, but as lawyer and TED Fellow Catherine Crump shows, the data they collect in aggregate could have disastrous consequences for everyone the world over.
Samantha’s Journey Into the Alt-Right, and Back
How does a once progressive young person go down the rabbit hole of the alt-right to embrace an ideology of hate? Samantha said that she wasn’t a racist—she had once canvassed for Barack Obama—but soon after joining Identity Evropa she found herself rubbing shoulders with the neo-Nazi organizer Rochard Spencer and chanting “seig heil.” When she left the group, she contacted the reporter Andrew Marantz to tell her story. Plus, the actress, comedian, and writer Jenny Slate talks about clothing, and the tension between being a feminist and looking feminine.
How did one woman go from canvassing for Obama to carrying a tiki torch in Charlottesville? A former white nationalist explains how she got in, and out, of the movement.
TED: Glöm multitasking, satsa på monotasking
People don’t just cook anymore — they’re cooking, texting, talking on the phone, watching YouTube and uploading photos of the awesome meal they just made. Designer Paolo Cardini questions the efficiency of our multitasking world and makes the case for — gasp — ”monotasking.”
TED: Vi bygger en dystopi för att få människor att klicka på annonser
We’re building an artificial intelligence-powered dystopia, one click at a time, says techno-sociologist Zeynep Tufekci. In an eye-opening talk, she details how the same algorithms companies like Facebook, Google and Amazon use to get you to click on ads are also used to organize your access to political and social information. And the machines aren’t even the real threat. What we need to understand is how the powerful might use AI to control us — and what we can do in response.
Lästips: Software bugs have become Apple’s greatest vulnerability
Reports of bugs have plagued many of Apple’s software releases this fall, from iOS 13 to iPadOS to macOS Catalina. Even the HomePod received an update that resulted in some of the smart speakers becoming unresponsive, causing Apple to temporarily pull the release while it fixed the problem.
Bugs, of course, are not the sole province of the folks from Cupertino, but this year has seemed particularly bad, especially when compared with the relatively stable release of iOS 12 in the fall of 2018. It’s led to many calls for Apple to rethink its software strategies and to spend more time squashing bugs than implementing new features.
This week, a report from Bloomberg suggests that Apple is taking steps in that direction, making changes to its software development practices that will help bring more stability to early builds of the software. But there’s more that could be done to help improve users’ experiences with Apple software, and internal changes are just one component.
Källa: Software bugs have become Apple’s greatest vulnerability
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