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This blog (or tumblr) dedicated only for your (also my) curiosity. Just feel free to ask me.

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Bermain Dengan Tuhan, Perusahaan Gunakan Cara Kontroversial Ini Untuk Hidupkan Orang Mati

Bioquark, perusahaan bioteknologi yang berbasis di Amerika Serikat, telah diberi lampu hijau untuk memulai penelitian pada 20 pasien yang dinyatakan telah mati otaknya, atau lebih tepatnya telah meninggal.

Perusahaan ini berusaha menemukan cara untuk merangsang dan menumbuhkan lagi neuron pada otak manusia yang sudah mati agar seseorang bisa hidup kembali.

Teknik ini masih tergolong baru dan…

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I Take Business School and I Hate It

I Take Business School and I Hate It

Business colleges are anything but difficult to loathe. Understudies spend a huge number of dollars to end up pinions in the industrialist machine of corporate America, and for the inexorably questionable estimation of a “MBA”. So it’s nothing unexpected that, last month, The Gatekeeper distributed a passage from another book titled, Close Down the Business college: What’s Off with…

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How to “Make” a Woman

How to “Make” a Woman

Addressing the gendering of artificial intelligence — and the issues of bias in the technology we create.

Photo by Ars Electronica via flickr / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

Have you ever wondered why Siri and Alexa were designed feminine? Are you worried about the impact that sex robots might have on society? As we are called to be critical of gender stereotypes and root out the gender bias that works…

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Instagram is life-porn, and you’ve got to get it under control.

Instagram is life-porn, and you’ve got to get it under control.

I love Instagram. It’s a platform that’s kind of fun to use, and I definitely enjoy it. But it’s also pretty fucked. It’s fucked because, more than any other social platform, it’s encouraged us to translate the personal and professional lives of other people into sheer porn, inspiration porn, motivation porn, fitness porn, startup porn.

I don’t think this says anything about the modern world,…

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Instagram is life-porn, and you’ve got to get it under control.

Instagram is life-porn, and you’ve got to get it under control.

I love Instagram. It’s a platform that’s kind of fun to use, and I definitely enjoy it. But it’s also pretty fucked. It’s fucked because, more than any other social platform, it’s encouraged us to translate the personal and professional lives of other people into sheer porn, inspiration porn, motivation porn, fitness porn, startup porn.

I don’t think this says anything about the modern world,…

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The Word of God: How AI Is Deified in the Age of Secularism

The Word of God: How AI Is Deified in the Age of Secularism

‘The Skeletons’ by Agostino Musi, 1518, engraving (detail). Courtesy of Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University.

At the tail end of 2017, a feature in Wiredoffered a glimpse into a new “church of artificial intelligence,” set up by Silicon Valley engineer and expert in self-driving car technology, Anthony Levandowski. The aim of Levandowski’s church — called the Way of the Future — is…

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The End of the iPhone Craze is Near

It will stop just in time

Apple leaks reveal the iPhone X will be discontinued because of a lack of interest by the Chinese consumer.

Apple isn’t only not innovating the product, it’s losing marketshare to hungrier Asian smartphone rivals. With Apple striking deals with Tencent, the writing was on the wall.

The Chinese and Asian consumer is increasingly the end-game of all tech hardware and sales.

The trends have been…

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Lessons in Analytics From Mobile Gaming — Hero Hunters

A nice featured games on mobile phone

It Takes The Right Perspective

Hero Hunters was just released. It is unusual that I play any mobile game on its official release date (they actually launched a little earlier). But I was in need of something new to kill some time and, now that I write these articles, I have become more inclined to try trending games. That often leads to disappointment. But disappointment sends me back to work,…

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Technology’s Broken Promises: Startups, Capitalism, and the Destructive Force of a Culturally Bankrupt Industry

My Own Youthful Naivety

It’s June 2013, and I’m cruising from SFO to The South of Market neighborhood (the pinnacle of startup driven gentrification in San Francisco) in the back seat of my future CEO’s car. I’m a little nervous. I graduated last December with my bachelors in computer science, and I have been working for two years as a programmer at a medical textbook publishing company based in…

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Here Is Why You Need To Be Street Smart, Not Book Smart

As Scott Berkun so succinctly put it — “There is no doubt in my mind street smarts kicks book smarts ass.”

I could stop writing now to be honest.

That is clear as an answer can be.

Alas, three sentences does not count as a blog post, so lets add some insight to the opening statement.

First off, lets debunk a theory.

Being street smart does not mean you are ‘uneducated’ or ‘unintellige…

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The 4 Emotional Stages of Mario Kart

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9 Things Only iPhone Power Users Take Advantage of on Their Devices

For many, it’s difficult to imagine life before smartphones.

At the same time, it’s hard to believe that the original Apple iPhone, considered a genuine unicorn at the time thanks to its superior experience and stunning, rainbow-worthy display, released over 10 years ago.

Even though the iPhone is older than most grade school students, some of its capabilities remain a mystery to the masses.

Sure…

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What is a computer? Computers = powerful + dumb.

We tend to think that a computer is just a laptop or a PC, but it’s actually any electronic device that can be instructed to carry out a task.

A computer is a device that can be instructed to carry out an arbitrary set of arithmetic or logical operations automatically

A calculator is a computer.

A mobile phone is a computer.

The cash register at Starbucks is a computer.

Your FitBit is a computer.

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It’s Time to Call Out the #BadApple

Apple is an amazing company that transformed the mobile industry — being the first to popularize smartphones for consumers and the first to launch app stores for developers. But for an outstanding industry leader, Apple has some worrying behavioral issues.

Take the “BatteryGate” for example. Apple secretly and deliberately reduces the performance of old phones in order to boost new phone sales in…

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Made in America, by Force: How local industries rely on coerced labor

Human trafficking is a major industry in the U.S., but one of the problems in identifying what it is is because it looks like many things to many people. In the Midwest, trafficking is dominant because of the intersection of federal interstates that easily transport victims through a circuit that can span all the major cities in just a week, spurred by online advertising that authorities say is…

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The Downfall of Computers: The Sad Tale of “Spectre” & “Meltdown” And What it Means for Computer Security

You know that I preach a common-sense and logical approach to Cyber and Information Security that avoids promoting fear, shock or hyperbole. That’s because beating the “The World Is Falling Apart!” drum doesn’t actually help people respond responsibly. Today is no different, but I’m being honest when I tell you that the impact of what I have to share today is far-reaching and not only impacts…

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The iPhone is Dead

I’ve switched back-and-forth between iPhone and Android in the past and I’ve always felt the iPhone edged out any Android phone, but not any more.

I switched to a Galaxy S8 months ago and I don’t see myself going back to iPhone, even the X. The iPhone is dead to me. Here’s why.

iPhones don’t age well

On my iPhone 6+, most apps crash on first open. Apps freeze for 5–10 seconds whenever launched…

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