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“A geneticist at Harvard Medical School is working on a dating app that matches users based on their DNA. The goal: to eliminate all genetic

My last Tumblr post is quite ominous — one of the comments said ‘Tinder eugenics,’ which is where this seems to be heading. It seems inevitable, but we’ll see if society can catch itself before going too far...

Larry Page and Sergey Brin became billionaires thanks to the success of Google. But toward the end, they appeared happy to let someone else run it.

So interesting looking into the implications of their departure — although most of us did not foresee it, this was years in the making.

#pichai #sundar

Director Martin Scorsese was not about to ask the likes of Robert De Niro and Al Pacino to walk around his set with motion-tracking markers all over their faces.

Are we still doing this Tumblr thing? If so, here’s an article I found about the cool CGI they did in The Irishman. Kind of not related to NMIX, but it is still tech-related!

“Google’s CEO, Sundar Pichai, is taking over as head of its parent company, Alphabet, as the co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin step asi

This is big! Time to change the NMIX readings...

Beijing’s pursuit of control over a Muslim ethnic group pushes the rules of science and raises questions about consent.

This is extremely invasive, especially toward an already suppressed group in China. DNA phenotyping is being developed by scientists in the U.S., and the DNA of these people (through blood samples and face scans) are used without their consent.

YouTube's mission is to give everyone a voice, but the site's open platform has opened the door to hate. YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki tells Lesley Stahl what the company's doing about it

This is a really interesting interview to watch, from Wojcicki’s first involvement with Google to behind-the-scenes of censorship. YouTube has had its ups and downs with censorship, and while this does not let them off the hook, it does some explaining about the process behind their evolution of dealing with censorship.

The cows were transplanted to a wild, expansive field beneath the summer sun. It was a cow's (virtual) paradise.

Attached: a missed opportunity for the AR/VR utopia project. Or this a dystopia? Will cows end up forming a revolution after seeing all the VR possibilities? Will they become dependent on VR or grow nearsighted? Is this the beginning of Planet of the Apes? Stay tuned.

Dairy farmers in Massachusetts are using food waste to create renewable energy. Each farm produces enough to power about 1,500 homes. This helps prevent the release of methane, a greenhouse gas.

Some literal food for thought -- I don’t know if we’ll necessarily get to a point where we will substantially decrease our waste, but this is a good example of how we’ll figure out ways to redirect our waste into more sustainable practices.

This came up in my recommended — all in good fun, but I wonder if this is what the future of entertainment is going to be like. Obviously, these deepfakes aren’t very realistic looking, but with the improvement of graphics, I wonder if we’ll ever see movies with lower budgets featuring deepfakes of higher-profiled actors (James Dean is one of them).

Also, those Jeff Goldblum + RDJ impressions are WILD!

Can withstand sledgehammers and bullets, but not metal balls thrown at close range, apparently

This seems like something people would take into war with them. Also it looks more retro than futuristic.

“We developed her personality.”

Oh, this is creepy. Sophia even makes jokes and can draw. Except she doesn’t look at the paper when she’s drawing.

Scientists have advanced virtual touch capabilities, making them wireless and two-way. They say it won't be long before you can reach out an

This article mentions some cute uses for this, but am I the only person worried about the negative effects of this? Like unwanted touching?

What’s cancel culture really like? Ask a teenager. They know.

Really interesting hearing about cancel culture from the perspective of a teenager. I always looked at it through the context of celebrities, but the stakes are much higher when it’s targetting young people.

#your-feed-internet-culture

“"Google has this history of walking into a new sector and saying, 'Let's suck up as much data as we can.'" —@chrissyfarr How will million

The double edged sword of Google (& data collection in general).

Iran has shut down most of its internet in an apparent attempt to stem the spread of nationwide protests. Here's what you need to know.

Technology and oppression meet again...

Cybercrime is ballooning as scammers learn to research their victims and fine-tune their psychological tricks.

Identity theft is not a joke, Jim. Millions of families suffer every year. (But jokes aside, this is scary.)

Paying attention to the impeachment inquiry and other developments means having to figure out what is true, false or spin. Many Americans ar

Some food for thought on news (and social media) — if you think about it, this isn’t sustainable for as long as it is. The election isn’t until next year but our brains have been occupied by it for more than half a year, with the addition of other political happenings in between there. It is tiring.

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