Tag: Technology
Journalism faces a crisis worldwide we might be entering a new dark age | Margaret Simons
Almost anyone can use the worldwide web to be a media outlet, so how will we differentiate between truth, myth and lies? Australia’s two largest legacy media organisations recently announced big cuts to their journalistic staff. Many editorial positions, perhaps up to 120, will disappear at Fairfax Media, publisher of The Age and The Sydney […]
Do funny recruiting hacks work? Let’s ask a guy who tried
Do recruiting hacks work? Can you get a big company’s attention through wacky (or not so wacky) antics? One man, John Washam, tried and his story is, at the very least, interesting. Washam wrote about his quest to work for Google on his blog, Googley As Heck. He posted his educational milestones on his way […]
Facebook announces new push against fake news after Obama comments
Mark Zuckerberg says site has been working on problem for a long time and penalizes misinformation on news feeds to reduce chances it will spread. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced new steps to counter fake news on the platform on Saturday, marking a departure from his skepticism that online misinformation is, as Barack Obama said […]
Uber won’t build flying cars but they sure as hell want someone else to
Company report describes network of aircraft that can take off and land vertically and lays out plan in support of companies attempting to build them. Uber’s eyes are on a new prize: flying cars. Outlined in a white paper published this week, the companys chief product officer, Jeff Holden, describes a network of small, electric […]
Nonsense paper written by iOS autocomplete accepted for conference
New Zealand professor asked to present his work at US event on nuclear physics despite it containing gibberish all through the copy. A nonsensical academic paper on nuclear physics written only by iOS autocomplete has been accepted for a scientific conference. Christoph Bartneck, an associate professor at the Human Interface Technology laboratory at the University […]