Der frühe Facebook-Investor Roger McNamee fordert in einem Artikel in der britischen Tageszeitung „The Guardian“, dass Social-Media-Unternehmen genauso reguliert werden sollten wie Tabak und Alkohol. Die Begründung für ein solches Vorgehen sei die Suchtgefahr und der Einfluss von Plattformen wie Facebook auf den öffentlichen Diskurs und die Demokratie. Aber sind diese Ängste gerechtfertigt?
In a landmark ruling this week, the German Federal Administrative Court has decided that cities have the right to ban diesel cars. The federal states of Baden-Württemberg and Nordrhein-Westfalen had appealed against the decision of the states of Stuttgart and Düsseldorf to outlaw diesel cars on its roads.
Une jeune étudiante en Californie a fait revenir les sèche-mains électriques dans le débat public, après un post sur Facebook. La jeune femme avait placé une boîte transparente à l’intérieur d’un sèche-mains électrique Dyson Airblade dans des toilettes publiques pour femmes. Elle l’a ouverte pendant trois minutes alors qu’il fonctionnait, puis l’a refermée et a observé […]
Early Facebook investor Roger McNamee has called for social media companies to be regulated in the same way as tobacco and alcohol. The justification for such action, he argues, is the risk of addiction and their influence on public discourse and democracy.
Dieser Artikel wurde für die luxemburgische Tageszeitung “Lëtzebuerger Journal” geschrieben. Die Rubrik “ZOOM” greift junge, alternative und unternehmerische Themen auf und bringt sie den Lesern näher. (Text in veränderter Form im Print) In der Diskussion um Alternative Energien und ihre Nutzung, geht es sehr oft um Transportmöglichkeiten. Immer mehr wird das klassische Benzin- und Dieselauto […]
By the end of this year, the aerospace manufacturer SpaceX is planning to send astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) with a Falcon 9 booster. At the same time though, the private contractor has come under fire for possible shortcomings during its latest Falcon 9 launch, which likely cost the American taxpayer substantially. When […]
Anthony Levandowski, the American engineer behind Google’s push for self-driving cars – also involved in a lawsuit regarding his alleged transfer of intel to Uber – has established a non-profit called “Way of the Future”. The religious organisation intends to established a deity based on artificial intelligence, and, according to Wired:
So Bitcoin just hit $17,000, or is it $20,000. By the time this is published, even if I review it ten minutes before sending it to our editor Daniel Fallenstein, the price of the most known crypto-currency probably reached another high. If you’re reading this some time in the future, you might think “Bitcoin?”, as it’s decline has […]
The Scotch Enlightenment is a podcast which I produce together with Daniel Fallenstein, for the Freedom Today Network. In our first regular episode of The Scotch Enlightenment, Yaël Ossowski (@yaeloss) joins us for an hour full of society, economics and technology.
When Star Wars makes the news, it’s usually a sign that either a new movie or video game just came out. Despite Star Wars: Battlefront 2 recently being sold around the world, it is the Belgian Gambling Commission that made international headlines on the back of the successful movie and gaming franchise. The commission is looking into […]
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