Subterms
Republicans may not have a corner on technology, but they definitely know their data and digital media Donald Trump was gloating again. “Now I understand the votes are fried in Iowa,” he told reporters at the White House on Friday. “Think of it, all the money that Democrats spent and the votes are fried. They […] More
We have fallen for the idea that apps and artificial intelligence can substitute judgement and hard work. They can’t Every four years, journalists from around the world are drawn to the Iowa caucuses like podcasters to a murder. The blatantly anti-democratic tradition appeals to certain journalistic biases: the steadfast belief of the political press that […] More
From Iowa to Florida, election day meltdowns of inadequately tested or monitored machinery are as American as apple pie The great Iowa caucus meltdown of 2020 may be triggering anguish, anger and, on the Republican side of the political fence, expressions of unalloyed glee; but for one Miami lawyer and voting rights activist it is […] More
Democrats in the state used a product called IowaReporterApp to report data for the first time instead of phoning in results The chaotic delay in declaring a winner in the Iowa caucuses is being blamed, in part, on a smartphone app introduced just weeks before the election to report results. Many are asking what went […] More
CEO defended Facebook’s decision not to ban political ads and said company will ‘stand up for free expression’ ‘Powerful people are always going to have a voice,’ Zuckerberg said. ‘I feel like someone needs to stand up for giving everyone a voice.’ Photograph: Marcio José Sánchez/AP Mark Zuckerberg, the Facebook chief executive, has unveiled a […] More
No one can claim that US president Donald Trump lacks empathy for at least some of the downtrodden. Interviewed by CNBC at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Trump responded to a question about Elon Musk. Given all that Musk has been through in recent times, Trump acknowledges that the poor fellow deserves the pity […] More
Over the past five years, India has seen several changes around the creation and dissemination of data. The Indian government has come under fire for withholding data on crucial issues like unemployment, as well as changing statistical methodologies to ascertain key metrics, calling into question the reliability of the source data itself. In a country […] More
Science and technology will become the lifeblood of the Chinese economy in this decade and will remain its lifeblood in the future. That is, in part, because China has become sufficiently advanced to be able to effectively compete with the US and other technological leaders in the West. It is also the key to China’s […] More
