theguardian.com
The US government has betrayed the internet. We need to take it back
This is not the internet the world needs, or the internet its creators envisioned. We need to take it back. And by we, I mean the engineering community.
11 links collected from theguardian.com between 2013 and 2022
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- Domain: theguardian.com
2016
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The tube at a standstill: why TfL stopped people walking up the escalators
An escalator that carried 12,745 customers between 8.30 and 9.30am in a normal week, for example, carried 16,220 when it was designated standing only.
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Google disables April fool joke amid user fury after prank backfires
Google’s April Fools’ Day prank has backfired, leaving the company looking the fool and a number of concerned users fearing for their jobs – or worse.
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Why my videogame chooses your character’s race and gender for you
We made half of our players, picked at random, play as women. We also made some of them black. The response has been extreme.
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The Guardian has moved to https 🔒
Our content has now been served over HTTPS for two months and we thought it was time to share some of the reasons, processes and challenges behind the project.
2017
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How Latin American women are cracking the code to the tech sector
Laboratoria is a social enterprise giving young women in Peru a five-month fast-track course in coding, readying them for a job in the country’s burgeoning tech sector where demand for their skills exceeds supply but fewer than 10% of professionals are women.
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‘Our minds can be hijacked’: the tech insiders who fear a smartphone dystopia
the pull-to-refresh mechanism ... rapidly became one of the most addictive and ubiquitous design features in modern technology