A somewhat older news item. Politico and Ars Technica/Wired are among the outlets reporting about the RealPage price collusion case on the housing market. The […] Read More
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Quick and short reposts of news items from elsewhere that I find interesting.
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A strange rambling interview with technology futurist Vinay Gupta in Vice from some time ago. Some quotes send shivers down my spine… What I wanted […] Read More
Noema magazine features a piece on how Guizhou, a former underdeveloped hinterland province, is linked to the global circulation of data and people. In the […] Read More
Dutch tech news Tweakers.net reports that Cowboy, an e-bike company from the Netherlands, has stopped offering its urban racing game Race. The game allowed e-bike […] Read More
Rest of World reports on startup Nippy from Argentina that offers flexworkers free use of the loo in exchange for their data. A new type […] Read More
Ars Technica writes about Amazon pulling the plug on its Fresh grocery shopping concept, because it just didn’t work: Just Walk Out was supposed to […] Read More
If you’re a landlord wondering which tenants you have to accept, for example, you might pose a question like, “are buildings required to accept section 8 vouchers?” […] Read More
Ars Technica reports on a AI-powered project for safer cycling. For $ 399.00 USD you get a small 330 gram camera, powered by a Raspberry […] Read More
Dutch tech website Tweakers reports that 110 supermarkets in The Netherlands (ca. 1,7%) have started to use cameras and software made by the French company […] Read More
Under the title “The tyranny of the algorithm: why every coffee shop looks the same”, The Guardian has a very interesting longread that touches on […] Read More
Dutch local news channel for Amsterdam AT5 reports that GroenLinks, a Dutch leftwing green party, is worried about the rampant use of smart doorbells like […] Read More
Another grim case of how (faulty) software and algorithms can impact real people’s everyday lives in specific workplaces: Ars Technica writes that “Fujitsu software bugs […] Read More
Today is the day Amsterdam is implementing 30km/h on the majority of its streets. So a good occasion to reblog this article here. Vox writes […] Read More
The Conversation has an interesting piece called “WeWork approached physical space as if it were virtual, which led to the company’s downfall”. In the article, […] Read More
Ars Technica reports about a lawsuit filed against 14 DC landlords who are accused of having colluded “with a property management software firm to keep […] Read More
This news item by Vice on the quick rise and demise of Revel scooters in NYC makes me think about temporarily as a theme that […] Read More
I love this series of portraits by Rest of World called Life as a Gig Worker. While a political economy perspective of platform labor tends […] Read More
The Markup writes: The software product formerly known as PredPol but rebranded into Geolitica, has been right in predicting crime a paltry <1% in an […] Read More
This one is sad and funny at the same time: 404 media shares a video from a 2017 incident involving police in LA being too […] Read More
Another one on the ‘gig economy’: Ars Technica writes that in New York Uber and Lyft have agreed to pay $328 million after “cheating drivers […] Read More