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October 31, 2013

UPDATE: Google's 'Floaters'

See UPDATE below. Anonymous sources aka Google employees tell San Francisco’s KPIX channel 5 what these Google ‘Floaters’ are about.

This structure, seen on a barge in Portland, Maine, could well be a Google floating data center. A very similar structure is under construction in San Francisco Bay.
(Credit: John Ewing/Portland Press Herald)

First, a four-story structure made out of ship containers was seen floating on a barge in San Francisco Bay, and now a second one has been spotted in Portland Maine. How many more are there and what is the owner, Google, up to?

Hhhmmm. Maybe Jon Stewart of the Daily Show can shed some light on these ‘Floaters’ – [Read more…]

April 5, 2013

Digital Disconnect: Robert McChesney on "How Capitalism is Turning the Internet Against Democracy"

What was once seen as a “new economic” engine designed to bring unvarnished information to the masses has been taken over by the robber barons known as Digital Cartels. Robert McChesney, author of Digital Disconnect, discusses how Big Corporations are dominating not only the internet but access to it. He elaborates how digital empires like Google, Twitter, Verizon, Amazon, Comcast to name a few have grown into “Digital Cartels” wielding enormous power over internet users including invasion of every user’s privacy. [Read more…]

August 25, 2011

Kevin Slavin: How Algorithms Shape Our World

h/t cryptogon and from TED – “Kevin Slavin argues that we’re living in a world designed for — and increasingly controlled by — algorithms. In this riveting talk from TEDGlobal, he shows how these complex computer programs determine: espionage tactics, stock prices, movie scripts, and architecture. And he warns that we are writing code we can’t understand, with implications we can’t control.”

Update X1 – Here’s a story covering “Black Box Hedge Funds“ you might find interesting.