Fleeing the Hellscape of Google Search with Qwant
Comparing Google to Qwant for user interface/user experience, privacy under the GDPR, and the “filter bubble”
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US Medical Data Security Gets Worse 2 Months After Expose of Hundreds of Millions of Images, Related Patient Info Open on the Internet
Another medical data horrorshow.
Read more...6 Technology Trends Revolutionizing the Transportation Sector
A list of supposedly transformative technology in the offing for transporation Sanity checks encouraged.
Read more...HHS Investigates Google-Ascension Secret Medical Records Project for Millions of Patients; Concrete Evidence of HIPAA Violations
Google and Ascension look to have shot their medical data project in the head with their flagrant disregard for patient privacy laws.
Read more...Google Collecting Medical Data on Millions Without Informing Patients or Doctors
Google now wants to play doctor.
Read more...How The iPhone Widens the US Trade Deficit With China: The Case Of The iPhone X
The iPhone case unambiguously demonstrates that conventional trade statistics significantly inflate China’s trade imbalance with the US.
Read more...The One Metric That Matters For Electric Cars
Looking at the hurdles electric cars have to surmount.
Read more...What’s Inside That Black Box: What Regulating Data Privacy and Policing Drunk Driving Have in Common
Two recent NYT stories – on data privacy and drunk driving – highlight the dangers of unquestioned reliance on omnipotent back boxes.
Read more...Automation: Robots in Real Life
The reality of robots is often mundane.
Read more...Why Have Facebook and Other Tech Giants Gotten Away With Gobbling Up Competitors?
Why have regulators sat pat as Big Tech companies like Facebook and Google have done deals that look like violations of antitrust law?
Read more...Facebook’s Libra Faceplant: Beware of CEO Bright Ideas
Libra is going nowhere fast.
Read more...Computer Science Now Counts as Math Credit in Most States – Is This a Good Idea?
Tech squillionaires are the moving force behind a succesful campaign to have secondary schools in the US give math credits for computer science courses.
Read more...Announcing the First Winner of the Archie McCardell Award for Truly Horrendous Management: WeWork
Introducing serial leading company wrecker Archie McCardell, and noteworthy successors to him, with WeWork as a first object lesson.
Read more...Southwest Pilots Blast Boeing in Suit for Deception and Losses from “Unsafe, Unairworthy” 737 Max
Yet more deserved bad news on the Boeing 737 Max front.
Read more...Gene Editing Could Help Save the Planet — If Scientists Can Avoid the Typos
Gene editing does not always work as advertised. And that’s before getting to the fact that genetically modified crops have been found to be less robust than native strains.
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