We’ve certainly covered facial recognition before, but it’s only in the past week or so that we’ve seen this intense, consistent level of news, development and controversy.
Read MoreOPLIN 4Cast #682: It’s official: facial recognition is out of control
It’s that time of year, when more people spend time in clinics and doctors’ offices, as cold and flu season gets underway. Many of us…
Read MoreOPLIN 4Cast #681: Will healthcare tech take giant steps in 2020?
As a librarian, I first became aware of COPPA—the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act—when installing ebook kiosks in middle school libraries. The kiosks would send…
Read MoreOPLIN 4Cast #680: COPPA cabana: will YouTube do better?
Accessibility for those with disabilities is not a new idea, although it’s far from being a normative part of many planning processes (but it should…
Read MoreOPLIN 4Cast #679: Accessibility and technology are still not a good match
A few weeks ago, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey tweeted that his company would fund an outside research team, called Bluesky, to develop an “open and decentralized standard for social media.” What does that mean, exactly? The best analogy might be email: in Gmail, for example, you aren’t limited to only sending email to other Gmail users; but because of the “Simple Mail Transport Protocol,” email works regardless of your client, and companies like Superhuman can build enhancements on top of email. So what if you didn’t need a Twitter account to tweet?
Read MoreOPLIN 4Cast #678: Will decentralizing Twitter solve its problems?
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We’ve certainly covered facial recognition in the 4Cast before, but a newer subset of that tech is causing some major waves. Now, technology can not only match a name and a face, but it can also (in theory) determine how the person with that face is feeling. Called “affect recognition,” but more commonly referred to as “emotion recognition,” it may be even more controversial than it’s broader cousin, facial recognition.
Read MoreOPLIN 4Cast #677: Is emotion recognition technology a good idea?
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I was stunned last week when it was announced that airport face recognition scans would soon include US citizens. The Department of Homeland Security quickly…
Twitter has been a solid player in the social media landscape for over a decade, but surprisingly little has changed since it first launched in…
Read MoreOPLIN 4Cast #675: From dead people to new features, Twitter gears up
This week, his Contract for the Web was unveiled. The contract documents nine core principles for a better internet future, including affordable internet access, privacy enforcement, and freedom from censorship.
Read MoreOPLIN 4Cast #674: Fighting for the Future of the Web
If you’re a gamer, it’s likely that you’ve been hearing about Google forthcoming Stadia service for a while. Stadia proposes to be to gaming what…
Read MoreOPLIN 4Cast #673: Is Google’s new Stadia gaming platform all that?
