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Apple's real masterpiece 🍎
Feels like I’m holding a magical device that shouldn’t exist. What is this sorcery? LMAO it’s stupid how amazing it is Black. Magic. Fuckery. These are a bunch of comments from one year ago, when Apple introduced their new chip M1. Yesterday Apple announced new Macbooks with pumped-up versions of M1, humiliating everyone else even further. You may not care about chip speeds, but there is some next-level corporate strategy that is worth understanding....
Facebook was down and there's not much to joke about
You’ve probably noticed that two days ago Facebook, Instagram, and Whatsapp went down. Your experience may have been just mildly annoying if you use Facebook just to procrastinate. But for many others, this was a serious issue. In this post, I want to explain to you how it happened, why it may have happened, and why this is important. Let’s start with how the entire Facebook infrastructure went down. The internet is made of a bunch of connected computers (it’s a “net”)....
Tesla is producing a robot - here's who it will fight against
Last week Elon Musk introduced the Tesla Bot, a 1.7m, 56kg robot straight out of a sci-fi movie (yes, they actually had an awkward dancer in a spandex suit on stage). I want to tell you why it’s BS propaganda, and what we should pay attention to instead. Let’s start with the BS part. Elon claimed that the Tesla bot will take care of “dangerous, repetitive, boring tasks”. An example he gave is going to buy groceries (not really dangerous, maybe boring)....
The hidden inclusivity problem in technology
Today there is a lot of conversation around making the tech world more inclusive. And there are good reasons: just 17.2% of ICT workers in the EU are female, and 91% of the US tech workforce is white or Asian. In short, almost everyone in tech is a white dude. But there’s another inclusivity problem in tech that is often underlooked. Being inclusive doesn’t mean just hiring diverse people. To be really inclusive you also need to make technology understandable for everyone....
Explaining AI is as important as building it
Next week Spain will start enforcing its new law on gig workers. This is one of the novelties of the regulation: The legal representation of the workers must be informed of the rules contained in the algorithms and artificial intelligence systems that can affect the working conditions by which the platforms are governed. What does it mean? Let’s take the example of food delivery. If you’re ordering food you care about how long it will take to get to your doorstep....
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