#Cyberculture agenda: “the tools and technology journalists are using to tell the #coronavirus story

A commuter wears a face mask in the New York City transit system, Monday, March 9, 2020, in New York. New York continued grappling Monday with the new coronavirus, as case numbers, school closings and other consequences grew. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Here are the tools and technology journalists are using to tell the coronavirus story

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Inside the race to build the best quantum computer on Earth

IBM thinks quantum supremacy is not the milestone we should care about.

Silicon Valley Ruined Work Culture Everywhere

Why does every damn place—even old-school corporate offices—have to be fun and full of foosball?


How Sid Meier Almost Made Civilization a Real-Time Strategy Game | War Stories | Ars Technica

Sid Meier, the creator of the popular Civilization video game series, goes behind the scenes of the development of the franchise’s first entry. Sid explains some of the challenges they came across while transitioning the game from real-time to turn-based strategy.

How Amazon Uses Explosive-Resistant Devices To Transfer Data To AWS


Earlier this month, the United States Copyright Office and the World Intellectual Property Organization co-sponsored a symposium titled Copyright in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.  The purpose of the symposium was to examine “how the creative community currently is using artificial intelligence (AI) to create original works,” and “what level of human input is sufficient for the resulting work to be eligible for copyright protection,” among other topics.

In his article for The Scholarly KitchenTodd A Carpenter read the discussion threads in WIPO’s public consultation and learned that the court decision regarding the famous monkey selfie of 2011 could steer copyright law regarding works created by artificial intelligence.

A road map for artificial intelligence policy

The rapid development of artificial intelligence technologies around the globe has led to increasing calls for robust AI policy: laws that let innovation flourish while protecting people from privacy violations, exploitive surveillance, biased algorithms, and more.

Traditionally, India’s best and brightest tech talent has emigrated to the United States for lucrative job opportunities. But now they’re putting their entrepreneurial spirit and engineering skills to use at home. VICE correspondent Krishna Andavolu heads to the city of Bangalore to explore what may indeed be the world’s next Silicon Valley.

A real-life lab experiment is testing the maximum effective dosage of candidate commercials.

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