5IT, 12/9
1. Cell simulation just got $100 million from Paul Allen and a new institute in Seattle. "The institute’s plan is to engineer many different cell lines and...
5IT, 12/8
1. And this is an economist's happy scenario for technology reducing inequality. "We can easily imagine medical diagnosis by online artificial intelligence,...
5IT, 12/5
1. The ethics of big data in higher education. "Vialardi and colleagues note that predictive analytic models 'are based on the idea that individuals with...
5IT, 12/4
1. Some artists set up a way for people to send messages to the NSA. "Berlin-based artists Christoph Wachter & Mathias Jud have installed WLAN / WiFi mesh...
5IT, 12/2
1. The protests are more notable for how small the role of technology for communication (as opposed to documentation) has been. This article is nonsense....
5IT, 12/1
1. The fact is: Silicon Valley is a Democratic stronghold. "Even the GOP acknowledges it has plenty of work to do to woo Silicon Valley. 'If you look...
5IT, 11/25
1. The case for reparations. "Having been enslaved for 250 years, black people were not left to their own devices. They were terrorized. In the Deep South, a...
5IT, 11/24
1. A shockingly detailed and lengthy oral history of the poop emoji. "It struck me as a particularly flexible and effective emoji. It provides a way to say...
5IT, 11/21
Well, hello. I ran out of This invites about five minutes after I sent my last message. I got 20 more and ran out immediately again. So, if you received an...
5IT, 11/20 (This. Edition)
1. Forensic DNA tests in 90 minutes. "The RapidHIT represents a major technological leap—testing a DNA sample in a forensics lab normally takes at least two...
5IT, 11/18
1. The machines can write captions now. "Automatically captioned: 'Two pizzas sitting on top of a stove top oven'" + Human captioned: "Whoa, what happened...
5IT, 11/17
1. The Burners of the Afghanistan war. "What we were looking at was a data-visualization tool he had created, called Antz. The patterns on the screen...
5IT, 11/14
1. It's not just U.S. Marshals flying Cessnas over cities who can intercept cell phone data. "This Article illustrates how cellular interception capabilities...
5IT, 11/13
1. How cats became lovable kitties. "But the most intriguing findings came when the team sequenced the genomes of 22 domestic cats—representing a wide...
5IT, 11/11
1. When work is sending email, more efficiency means more work for everybody. "Wajcman cites a study of Blackberry use among 'corporate lawyers, venture...
5IT, 10/10
1. There is a massive NSA document dump coming on Wednesday, if you have access to Proquest's Digital National Security Archive. "The vast majority of the...
5 Intriguing Things
1. There should be a Burroughs Cut-Up bookmarklet that randomly screenshots a portion of any webpage you pass to it. "The Cut-Ups began in October of 1959,...
5 Intriguing Things
1. A project to make the way robots think comprehensible to humans. "In an experiment, the researchers used their [augmented reality] system to place...
5 Intriguing Things
1. Writer Rob Walker and artist Tim Belonax printed a small run of a new, arm-focused target for an essay about the design of shooting aids. "It’s a...
5 Intriguing Things
1. Technological angst and Car Talk, from the journal Studies in Popular Culture. "In the final analysis, then, Tom and Ray help reduce anxiety in the yuppie...