An interview, an author, and 500 local innovations
BOSTON DID IT FIRST: AN INTERVIEW, AN AUTHOR, AND 500 LOCAL INNOVATIONS
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VERIZON 101: YOU CAN STOP CONGRATULATING THIS BEHEMOTH FOR ITS STUDENT IPAD PROGRAM RIGHT NOW
It’s something between ironic and nauseating that Superintendent Tommy Chang and Mayor Marty Walsh are making it look like Verizon, of all entities, is here to save the day.
CRITICAL UPDATE: LOBOTOMASS CONT.
Softbank, maker of a robot named Pepper that can “read human emotion,” is apparently stepping up its involvement in the AI sector.
AUTONOMOUS PROFITEERING: CORPORATE NETWORKS ENLIST BOSTON TO HELP THEM SELL SELF-DRIVING CARS … AND ELIMINATE JOBS
The city should pull out of this incipient arrangement.
PORKING PERMIT: FOR NEW PARKING APP, BOSTON ENTRUSTS COMPANY THAT COMPROMISED CITY DATA
Last year the Dig revealed that Xerox left a trove of license plate and home address information exposed online.
GOOD LUCK CHUCK: FEAR AND WAITING AT THE CHARLIECARD STORE
The subterranean MBTA CharlieCard Store is a terrific metaphor for everything that’s wrong with transportation in Boston
CAB FAIR: BOSTON MEDIA DOES RIDESHARE BATTLE JUSTICE
With a plethora of neoliberal yuppies populating newsrooms in these parts, it’s surprising that more journos, from city desks to oped pages, haven’t run the taxi union out of town already.
WHEEL-E: LOCAL TRIO REINVENT THE WHEEL, WITH HELP FROM “TRON”
"I see the GeoOrbital wheel not only as a way to get more people into biking, but also as a way to make practical biking the norm, rather than the exception.”
BOSTON TROLLING (THE COMPLETE SERIES)
“They’re asserting a general police power to capture anybody’s image and process it for law enforcement purposes just in case they later turn out to be guilty of something. That’s not OK.”
