Five futures thinkers share their insights on what’s slow, stuck or seemingly constant – and what we can do. There’s so much talk about the accelerating pace of change. One…
The nascent sector of algorithm auditing is appearing, with various start-ups arising in the wake of concerns about the human impacts of AI. This is important, because there is a…
LinkedIn is building a gig marketplace. The feature, which has been in development since 2019, will focus on knowledge workers able to work remotely and is hoping to span 100…
Researchers at Queen Mary University have recently developed a new and more accurate form of emotion detection that does not need any visual cues, such as facial expressions. Wireless radio…
A new concept, Me.Ring, allows the wearer to flip a switch to instantly block data from being collected about them. The idea, from design firm Argodesign, is to allow wearers…
As part of the European Digital Strategy, the European Commission has proposed two pieces legislation to make a ‘safer and more open digital space’. The Digital Services Act (DSA) and…
A facial recognition algorithm was applied to images of over 1 million individuals to predict their political orientation. It did so by comparing the similarity to faces of either liberal…
On January 6th 2021, Facebook and Twitter disabled US president Donald Trump’s accounts. Citing risk for further incitement of violence, Twitter permanently suspended the president’s account, while Facebook has disabled…
We need time to reflect on our shifting cities. In 2008, for the first time in human history, more than half the world’s population was living in cities. Come 2018,…
A new fully digital service enables any entrepreneur in Benin to create and register a business on their mobile phone and receive official incorporation within two hours. The ease and…
Google is set to launch 3-6 month courses for career certificates. The courses will require approximately 5 hrs a week to complete and cost around $600. They require no previous…
In the US, Education-applied AI is set to grow by nearly fifty percent by 2021 according the the Artificial Intelligence Market in the US Education sector. While the technology is…
