Technology Contents Archive

Every time ‘AI Ethics’ comes up, I tell people about the UK post office database scandal. Hundreds of lives ruined by an institution that could not accept there were bugs in the code, and that was 30-year-old technology built by an IT outsourcer. Was that ‘database ethics?’

Sony tells regulators Microsoft could sabotage its ability to win Digital Foundry comparisons https://t.co/DFQzgQlMS4

Substack writers cannot embed tweets in their posts. Twitter users cannot retweet or like tweets with Substack links. https://t.co/1xsHXskKhm

Smartphone cameras are getting sharper and more crisp as time moves on, but could one actually zoom all the way to the moon with a smartphone and get a highly detailed shot? Let's do some physics to find out. https://t.co/o4FG8ez4Dx

Code can be buggy, data can be skewed, and the computer can be wrong. Both the last and new waves of AI bring new ways for the computer to be wrong but the solution is probably the same - institutional awareness that the computer could be wrong and the processes to deal with that

Substack founders fire back at Twitter over restrictions and rules that "change on a whim" https://t.co/8SKCiWuTGk https://t.co/nNxDhhaEEy

The new DeLorean Alpha5 is an all-electric throwback to the future #FutureBlink https://t.co/WkM3RqDzkt

Generative AI could be used for small components in games, but thanks to machine learning, large-scale game creation is still a long way off. https://t.co/WmPLGNVvNv

NASA’s powerful new air quality monitor has launched into space https://t.co/CwC1cnrJ3u https://t.co/cKJXINOB7Z

This sort of thing is one reason why I’m glad I’ve been writing a weekly newsletter for the last decade. It has getting on for 200k subscribers now, across the premium and free editions. You should subscribe too. https://t.co/FZf19oUVDK

Meet the robot learning to assemble IKEA furniture #StrictlyRobots https://t.co/KoEcqlR2qa

Tesla cuts EV prices for the fifth time this year https://t.co/hpiZQbLhjA https://t.co/OdlUiuF7oV

Now everyone claims Microsoft will build a data center on the Foxconn land in Wisconsin https://t.co/AARk6nvsQ5 https://t.co/6BUkHORgit

The world's first flying electric racing vehicle is here https://t.co/K2xKBkBvHC

Synthetic embryos made without eggs and sperm are looking increasingly like the real thing—raising thorny ethical questions. https://t.co/82sHJxMqEE