Technology

[ad_1] Nilay Patel / The Verge: Interview with Sen. Warren on her plan to break up big tech, including Apple, which she says shouldn’t both run the App Store and distribute its own apps in it  —  Under Warren’s plan, …

[ad_1] Susie Cagle / OneZero: The sharing economy, once touted as community-building, sustainable, and a salvation from capitalism, has in fact only ushered in a precarious economic future  —  ‘Sharing’ was supposed to save us.  Instead, it became a Trojan …

[ad_1] Oscar Schwartz / The Guardian: AI-based emotion detection has become a $20B industry, but some experts say the foundational science behind the tech is flawed and can adversely affect society  —  Machines can now allegedly identify anger, fear, disgust …

[ad_1] Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica: Tesla is dealing with the failure to achieve full self-driving by shifting goalposts, as it continues using its customers as unpaid safety drivers for its tech  —  Tesla just shifted the goalposts for …

[ad_1] Financial Times: As ride-hailing and p2p lending face govt. scrutiny in China, a number of state-backed startups have entered those sectors increasing the pressure on incumbents  —  Technology start-ups in two of China’s hottest sectors are facing a fresh …

[ad_1] Cecilia Kang / New York Times: Profile of FTC chairman Joseph Simons, who wants the agency to have more direct authority to oversee privacy practices and fine companies  —  WASHINGTON — The Federal Trade Commission has no shortage of …

[ad_1] Maddie Stone / Gizmodo: A deep dive into Apple’s plan to stop mining the earth “one day” suggests that it will not happen until Apple overhauls its business model  —  This week, we are writing about waste and trash, …

[ad_1] Windows 10 represents three decades of development and as an operating system it’s pretty polished by now. That doesn’t mean, though, that when you boot up a fresh copy of this operating system, it’s perfect in every way. Windows …

[ad_1] Nick Statt / The Verge: An overview of how advances of modern AI research can help developers build more sophisticated and immersive games  —  The advances of modern AI research could bring unprecedented benefits to game development  —  The …

[ad_1] Will Oremus / Slate: By shifting focus to private messaging, Facebook is getting closer to emulating WeChat, which has made Apple’s control of iOS largely irrelevant in China  —  The social network’s “pivot to privacy” puts iOS in its …