Top stories published by OneZero in May of 2021

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Top Stories published by OneZero in May of 2021

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Ben Zotto in OneZero

Why We Need to Rethink the Computer ‘Desktop’ as a Concept

Thoughts about a new direction for desktop…

Marianne Bellotti in OneZero

A.I. Is Solving the Wrong Problem

People don’t make better decisions when given more data, so why do…

Zulie Rane in OneZero

You Don’t Need to Be Real to Be Popular

About a month ago a motorcycle-loving Japanese woman with…

Chip Stewart in OneZero

Beware the Copyleft Trolls

When photographers sue after Creative Commons Licenses go awry.

Nir Eyal in OneZero

3 Things Parents Need to Know Now About Kids and Tech

Whatever your view of tech’s impact on our…

Zulie Rane in OneZero

A white, plastic human-looking robot looks up at the camera against a wooden wall backdrop.

I Forced a Bot to Write a Sex Scene

What happens when you outsource erotic writing to robots?

Nir Eyal in OneZero

The New York Times Derides the Very Dark Patterns It Uses

Cory Doctorow in OneZero

The torso and hands of a zoot-suited con-artist playing a shell game; behind his body is a Matrix-style waterfall of green characters on a black background. The pea in the shell-game is the eye of HAL9000 from 2001. Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en

Consent Theater

Some of privacy’s thorniest questions

Cory Doctorow in OneZero

Two hands locked in a Chinese Finger Trap

Tech monopolies and the insufficient necessity of interoperability

A preview of my July 2021 Locus…

Mark Humphries in OneZero

We Can’t Upload You, Sorry

Why we can’t put your mind in the machine

These were the top 10 stories published by OneZero in May of 2021. You can also dive into daily archives for May of 2021 by using the calendar at the top of this page.

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Jess Beaumont-Thoms

Catherine Buni and Soraya Chemaly

Lindsay VanSomeren

Sarah Treleaven

Chelsea Barabas

Walidah Imarisha

Meredith Whittaker

Christopher Hutton

Emma Rindlisbacher

Hannah Frishberg

Rebecca Murphey

Frederick Kaufman

Nouf Aljowaysir

Marianne Bellotti

Kawandeep Virdee

Jennifer Pahlka

Allan Milne Lees

Shannon Mullen O'Keefe

Michele DeMarco, PhD

Brandy L Schillace

Daniel Rosehill

Christopher P Jones

Matthew McFarlane

James Surowiecki

Kartik Hosanagar

Benjamin Sledge

Julio Vincent Gambuto

Michelle Drouin

Mikey Dickerson

Michael Beausoleil

Jacqueline Dooley

Brandeis Marshall

Amelia Winger-Bearskin