Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
The furor surrounding the firing of popular Reddit administrator Victoria Taylor took a new turn on Friday, when company CEO Ellen Pao commented on the resulting backlash. After Taylor’s termination, several Reddit boards were set to private by their respective moderators, in a show of protest against the decision. Facing mounting criticism from the link-sharing…
Disney‘s Pocahontas is one of the most revered animated classics of all time, bringing us the love story between the tribe chief’s daughter named Pocahontas and an English settler named John Smith; the iconic ballad performed by high school choirs across the nation, “Colors Of the Wind“; and now Imgur‘s biggest meme: Kocoum.For those of you…
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The founder of Facebook is reading a book every two weeks, and discussing it with the Facebook community. And his next selection is The Player of Games, one of the amazing Culture novels by Iain M. Banks. Writes Zuckerberg: This is a change of pace from all the recent social science books. Instead, it’s a…
After days of violent protests and defiance on the part of Uber’s French management, two of the company’s employees were taken into custody for “illicit activity” today. Uber France CEO Thibaut Simphal and Uber European GM Pierre-Dimitri Gore-Coty were arrested for running the company’s ride-sharing service illegally. TechCrunch reports the pair is also being held…
French taxi drivers overturned cars, burned tires and blocked access to airports and train stations in a second day of violent protest Thursday against competition from the ride-sharing service Uber. Hundreds of licensed cabbies, who say competition from the popular service is cutting into their income and threatening their jobs, converged on cities to stage…
Car service giant Uber Technologies told prospective investors it is generating $470 million in operating losses on $415 million in revenue, Bloomberg News reported late Monday, citing a company document. The document showing the large operating losses is being used to sell between $1 billion and $1.2 billion in convertible bonds but does not provide…
A slew of articles are claiming that an “exasperated” artificial intelligence snapped at its programmer during a conversation about morality and ethics. Sadly, it’s another example of the media overselling the capabilities of simple chatbots. In his Wall Street Journal article, “Artificial Intelligence Machine Gets Testy With Its Programmer,” Amir Mizroch reports on a recent…
Shutterstock Human: what is the colour of blood ? Machine: it is the same as a black eye . Artificial intelligence just got threatening. A chatbot has learned how to hold a conversation by analysing millions of movie scripts, allowing it to muse on the meaning of life, the colour of blood, morality and…
It took only five years for what once seemed like a fuzzy idea—limos on demand—to become the source of violence in the streets. Credit Photograph by Jean-Paul Pelissier/REUTERS Most people know the story of the Luddites, but it is still a tale worth repeating, especially in light of recent protests over Uber. Luddites were…