Gregorian calendar omissions 1789, 1871, 1917. Milestone points in the political history of Europe marked by three numbers. Three numbers that automatically refer to and are now identified with a …
The French and the Germans don’t like…
American computer science professor (and machine learning researcher) Pedro Domingos of the University of Washington became internationally known for his 2015 book The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the …
selfie: capitalism kills!
In 2014 it was the beginning. Only 15… In 2015 it went better: 50. In 2016 it became clear that there is a steady upward trend: 97. In 2017 there …
Robotic surgery
The fact that an operating room (already now, even more so in the near future) will resemble to a large extent an assembly line of objects (photos on the cover …
Undersea cables the Achilles’ heel in lead-up to new cold war
It’s a little-known twist in the cyber-warfare between nations that carries potentially devastating consequences. At a time when more than 95% of everything that moves on the global Internet passes …
Dream city
Internationally they are called “smart cities.” But for Chinese President Xi Jinping, intelligence goes without saying… Thus he names the urban mega-project he is promoting the “city of dreams.” It …
Cambridge Analytica: internal cyber psyops of the 4th world war
“Revelation! The Luftwaffe bombs London.” Such a front-page headline in a British newspaper, during the Second World War, would have certainly been unthinkable; war then was the directly experienced reality …
Fake2Fake
Do they have humor or time for games in university research centers? Are they rushing to patent digital applications? Or do they simply participate in completing what Debord had (discovered? …
the ecological footprint
In front of the smart mobile phones that fit in the palm of your hand and can do almost anything (even though they still struggle with the simplest tasks…), an …
On/off
“One thing we know, that we know nothing.” This should be the motto of biotechnologists, if – as “scientists” – they were honest towards the populations that fund them. But …
the second operating system that exists in every mobile phone device
Having discussed the issue of closed/open source code and without illusions regarding the technical solutions to the technological issues posed by the information age, we are publishing a translation of …
Drones
The flying machines of the big brother! For the police, they are the ideal complement to the generalized surveillance, but for a photographer they become the wedding videography tool and …