The Accent Gap - Google Home vs Alexa

Digital Ethics
Inside China’s surveillance state
Lazy thinking, not political bias, drives fake news
When it comes to spotting fake news, 'a little thinking might go a long way.'
Caring for Capitalism
"The Bleeding Edge" is a contemporary portrait of how a misguided quest for innovation is eroding the forms of connection that make us human....
The Designer Who Changed Airbnb's Entire Strategy
Product-market fit is the only thing that matters, and yet this is where many companies fail. Learn how Airbnb used design thinking to disrupt itself, expand its product offering and secure lasting product-market fit on its way to becoming a true lifestyle brand.
Why the chess community actually grew when computers learned to play
If you are worried about the future of work, consider chess.
Aviv Ovadya on Twitter
What should Facebook do?@alexstamos nails it. pic.twitter.com/lq2UqALf7C— Aviv Ovadya (@metaviv) July 25, 2018
How Doctors Take Women's Pain Less Seriously
When my wife was struck by mysterious, debilitating symptoms, our trip to the ER revealed the sexism inherent in emergency treatment.
Matvarukedjor uppmanar till grillning – mitt i brandhärdarna
Kampanjpris på tändvätska, grill-sms och nedsatta engångsgrillar.
Guillaume Champeau on Twitter: Netiquette guidelines
Fascinating to read the 1995 "Netiquette Guidelines" (RFC 1855). It was written when the Internet began to be mainstream, at a time where IRC channels, newsgroups and so on where the Facebook and Twitter of their times. Wise words.https://t.co/stOD6Hxl4E pic.twitter.com/Vd8GKw9DKF— Guillaume Champeau (@gchampeau) August 3, 2018
Alastair Somerville on Twitter
Why #bigdata can do wrong in human centered design. The abstraction can be true but meaningless for any individual human. #data pic.twitter.com/49FRc0StII— Alastair Somerville (@Acuity_Design) August 4, 2018
Just 5 questions: Community initiatives against climate change
A lack of political will among national governments has led to climate policy gridlock. But many local communities are focusing on solving their own climate problems, and we can learn from them.
Anders Wijkman: ”Det ekonomiska systemet är ohållbart”
Från Moderaternas guldgosse till en framträdande kritiker av dagens kapitalism. Anders Wijkmans politiska bana har fört honom allt närmare en av hans stora hjärtefrågor: det ohållbara i vårt sätt att leva. ”Hela systemet måste göras om i grunden”, säger han till Dagens ETC.
StackOverflow Code of Conduct
Stack Overflow | The World’s Largest Online Community for Developers
How tech's richest plan to save themselves after the apocalypse
Silicon Valley’s elite are hatching plans to escape disaster – and when it comes, they’ll leave the rest of us behind
Automatiserat beslutsfattande i kommunal förvaltning
SKL bedömer att dagens kommunallag inte möjliggör helt automatiserade beslut där ingen människa deltar i beslutet. Automatiserat beslutsstöd, undantaget själva beslutet, är dock möjligt.
Per Axbom on Twitter
Addiction, anxiety and sleep deprivation are now key selling points. 😬#designethics pic.twitter.com/8HnZtXs1Do— Per Axbom (@axbom) August 12, 2018
The Ultimate Guide to Making Smart Decisions
A guide to making decisions covering how we can intelligently prepare to improve our thinking, avoid stupidity, and make better, smarter, decisions.
Product Design: Expectations vs Reality
For me, the beauty of designing a product is that it usually never ends up as the first idea you had. Often, the process looks like a…
What to do with your implicit bias
Eliminating it isn't really a realistic option.
“Diversity” and “inclusion” aren’t interchangeable. Here’s how to use them correctly
Words matter.
Pamela Pavliscak on LinkedIn: "Hope you will take 15 minutes to watch this talk, I feel like it's one of my best. When we talk about our emotional life with autonomous cars (or any other tech), we are really talking about the emotional life of humans. "
August 14, 2018: Pamela Pavliscak posted on LinkedIn
Boost Your Emotional Intelligence with These 3 Questions
It will help you figure out which habits aren’t serving you.
I Design, Therefore I Am
(With Apologies to René Descartes) As a university freshman, I studied philosophy. One of the first thinkers we studied was Aristotle, and for one of the first assignments we…
An Open Letter to Elon Musk
Arianna Huffington writes an open letter to Elon Musk about the devastating effects of stress, burnout, and lack of sleep.
Facebook apologises over 'cruel' Year in Review clips
The social network apologised after it showed one user a photograph of his recently-deceased daughter in its ‘Year in Review’ feature; many others had similar complaints
Eric Meyer on Twitter
Well… Facebook did it again. #AlgorithmicCruelty pic.twitter.com/pwtNYt6HsI— Eric Meyer (@meyerweb) December 7, 2017
Stop Using Discriminatory AI, Human Rights Groups Say
The declaration argues that AI algorithms must be designed to prevent discrimination and remedy the systemic racism that is often programmed into them.
Ethics and Aesthetics: Could beauty be the key to a more humane design?
Design has transformed from an artistic handicraft into an engineering job. What was lost when aesthetics left the stage was the humanity of design.
Top Facebook Security Officer: "We Need To Be Willing To Pick Sides"
In a brutally honest note about his departure, Facebook’s Chief Security Officer Alex Stamos calls on his colleagues “to intentionally not collect data where possible” and listen to people when they say a feature is “creepy.”