by James Fite | Sep 11, 2022 | Articles, Good Reads, Opinion, Politics
Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) killed her own bill ostensibly aimed at empowering smaller media outlets. This comes just days after an inspiring speech about persisting in the face of massive spending by Big Tech companies lobbying against it. So what does it take to...
by Caroline Adana | Jun 16, 2022 | Articles, Good Reads, Opinion, Science
After a suspended Google engineer claimed that the company’s artificial intelligence (AI) system called LaMDA had developed sentience, a public debate about the possibilities and limits of AI ensued. What are the facts? Are humans doomed to be ruled by ultra-smart...
by Keelin Ferris | Jun 4, 2022 | Articles, Business News, Exclusive Member, Opinion
Google undeniably dominates the email, search engine, and file storage game. Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, and Microsoft Bing all play second fiddle. Still, an encryption-focused platform recently renamed Proton is hoping to overthrow the Internet King. In contrast to Big Tech,...
by Scott D. Cosenza, Esq. | Jan 15, 2022 | Articles, Opinion, Privacy & Tech
An anti-corruption watchdog group has filed a shareholder proposal with YouTube’s parent company requiring it to publish content removal requests by the Biden administration. The National Legal and Policy Center proposal would require Google to post the takedown...
by Caroline Adana | Jan 12, 2022 | Articles, Exclusive Member, Good Reads, Opinion, Privacy & Tech
You get highly ideologically filtered results whenever you use the Google search engine. The tech behemoth’s latest casualty is Dr. Roy Spencer, one of the scientists responsible for generating the global satellite temperature average (UAH) featured by the United...