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US Policy in Egypt: Friends with Benefits 26 Aug 2013 | 10:15 pm
© AFP/Getty Images In spite of the violent crackdown on protesters in Egypt, the United States continues to avoid reviewing its policy regarding military aid to the country. The Obama administration ...
Europe's Common Future: Leaving Neverland 23 Aug 2013 | 08:00 pm
Woodleywonderworks Unlike Peter Pan, Europeans need to grow up. Rather than clinging to false fairy-tales, we must realize that the over-arching ideologies no longer function and that we cannot retur...
The Unjustified Criticism of Big Data: From Analysis to Paralysis 22 Aug 2013 | 05:06 pm
© Intel Big Data is often portrayed as witches’ brew. But such judgments miss the crucial point: supporting data analysis will facilitate our everyday lives. von Reinhard Clemens
The Troika and the Decline of Democracy: Getting Troiked 15 Aug 2013 | 07:02 pm
© The European The Troika is destroying Europe country by country. Our silent acceptance shows that we’ve given up on national democracies and no longer understand democracy’s fundamental principles....
Humanoids and Humans: “Robots help us understand human nature” 9 Aug 2013 | 07:41 pm
© Hiroshi Ishiguru Hiroshi Ishiguro exists twice: as roboticist and as humanoid robot. Martin Eiermann talked with one of them about human intelligence, science fiction, and the morality of robots. v...
Women in the Workplace: “We are ready for the next wave of the women’s movement” 6 Aug 2013 | 03:25 pm
© The European According to former Hillary Clinton advisor Anne-Marie Slaughter, “women still can’t have it all.” She sat down with Florian Guckelsberger and Julia Korbik to discuss women in the work...
Technology as Power: The End of Innocence 4 Aug 2013 | 04:16 am
Codice Internet The past two months have undone the Age of Digital Innocence. It's now possible to speak of technology of power, and of the internet as a site of old-fashioned struggle. von Martin Ei...
Big Data: “At some point, more data isn't helpful at all" 1 Aug 2013 | 07:03 pm
© Lars Mensel Big data helps us understand the world we live in – but this comes at a prize. Lars Mensel and Thore Barfuss sat down with world-renowned data expert Stephen Wolfram to discuss the dang...
The Importance of Small Data: Think Small 29 Jul 2013 | 03:58 pm
© Intel They don’t seem worth paying attention to, but for companies like Facebook, they are pure gold: the tiny digital footprints that we leave behind as we wander the Internet. To avoid undesirabl...
The Limits of Big Data: Fishing in a Sea of Numbers 29 Jul 2013 | 03:12 pm
© Intel Data cannot predict the way we humans act and think – and neither should it. Human behavior is too complex to be measured by Facebook statuses and “Like-buttons”. von Zeynep Tufekci
