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The Code Must Go On: An Afghan Coding Bootcamp Becomes a Lifeline Under Taliban Rule

Four months after the Afghan government fell to the Taliban, 22-year-old Asad Asadullah had settled into a new routine.  In his hometown in Afghanistan’s northern Samangan province, the former computer science student started and ended each day glued to his laptop screen.  Since late October, Asadullah had been participating in a virtual coding bootcamp organizedContinue reading “The Code Must Go On: An Afghan Coding Bootcamp Becomes a Lifeline Under Taliban Rule”

300 companies chart path for CO2-free energy technology https://t.co/OPZSNIySzx

300 companies chart path for CO2-free energy technology https://t.co/OPZSNIySzx — Lenore Albert (@LenoreAlbert19) Dec 29, 2021 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js from Twitter https://twitter.com/LenoreAlbert19 December 29, 2021 at 01:00PM via IFTTT

The worst technology of 2021

We’ve never relied more on technology to solve our problems than we do now. Sometimes it works. Vaccines against covid-19 have cut the death toll. We’ve got virus tests and drugs, too. But this isn’t the story about what worked in 2021. This is MIT Technology Review’s annual list of cases where innovation went wrong.Continue reading “The worst technology of 2021”

The hacker-for-hire industry is now too big to fail https://t.co/q2oFsYRThB

The hacker-for-hire industry is now too big to fail https://t.co/q2oFsYRThB — Lenore Albert (@LenoreAlbert19) Dec 28, 2021 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js from Twitter https://twitter.com/LenoreAlbert19 December 28, 2021 at 05:14AM via IFTTT

The hacker-for-hire industry is now too big to fail

A shock has reverberated inside Israel in the last few months. NSO Group, the billion-dollar Israeli company that has sold hacking tools to governments around the world for more than a decade, has drawn intense scrutiny after a series of public scandals. The company is in crisis. Its future is in doubt. But while NSOContinue reading “The hacker-for-hire industry is now too big to fail”

Why is the tech industry losing record numbers of CEOs? https://t.co/ssFKcf4Mz7

Why is the tech industry losing record numbers of CEOs? https://t.co/ssFKcf4Mz7 — Lenore Albert (@LenoreAlbert19) Dec 27, 2021 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js from Twitter https://twitter.com/LenoreAlbert19 December 27, 2021 at 02:00PM via IFTTT

A desert robot depicts AI’s vast opportunities

When Hongzhi Gao was young, he lived with his family in Gansu, a province located in the center of northern China by the Tengger Desert. Thinking back to his childhood, he recalls the constant, steady wind of dirt outside their house, and that during most months of the year it didn’t take more than aContinue reading “A desert robot depicts AI’s vast opportunities”