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Do you remember Dorian Nakamoto? Dorian Nakamoto was a person Newsweek mistakenly outed as the the Nakamoto who founded Bitcoin. It turned out they were wrong and he sued. That and a bunch of tornadoes were in the new in 2014 the week this episode aired. In this installment we
Singular XQ Podcast
Who is treated better in tech orgs? Women or designers? Dr. Manhaes conducted research that suggests that they are treated in remarkably similar ways. In this episode, JP and Dr. Manhaes talk about his research and what it means for human-centered software development and building a sense of belonging on
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Can cloud companies genuinely respect data sovereignty? Computer Weekly reports Microsoft has admitted to the Scottish Police Authority that data collected in the UK is outsourced to foreign countries for processing. This is counter to its claim that it respects data sovereignty. This includes any data that it processes for
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Is psychopathy a pre-requisite for succeding in technology? Today, we dropped the recording of our new series Happy Hour for Thinking People with special guest expert, Dr. Guissoo Nabavian and SXQ network special guests, J. Wolf, Dr. Jon McKenzie, and Hazel Weakly as well as, HeroCorps members Aaron Beavers and
Do you remember Heartbleed? In this episode, JP joins Aaron Beavers alongside special guest Brian Larsen to talk about episode three of Silicon Valley Season 1. JP starts the episode off with some reminders of what was in the headlines on the day of the release and the team takes
What's happening with Nvidia stock? Well: Nvidia overtakes Microsoft as the most valuable stock in the world. This among high profile use cases failing, most prominently McDonalds, while UNESCO is noting concern over false holocaust information circled by LLMs. Why is Nature going on strike? The editorial staff
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It's getting harder to find good writing on the internet today, particularly when it comes to clear thinking technology news reporting. We are slowly moving our way through Ghost to find the most appropriate recommendations for you but here are two that we really like so far. Have
We like when Clemens says, "somewhere during human-centered design, software development happens, not the other way around." This is accurate to the field as it was imagined. Human-centered design starts before the human even arrives a the software. In this episode, JP and Dr. Lutsch talk about sustainability
Cisco announces a $1bn investment fund for AI startups The biggest news in emerging innovation is Cisco's $1bn investment fund for AI start-ups. From their press release: * Cisco is launching a $1B global investment fund to expand and develop secure, reliable, and trustworthy AI solutions. * Cisco is making
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