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Peer2Politics
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on peer-to-peer dynamics in politics, the economy and organizations
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"Research I have been directing in recent years suggests that Google, Inc., has amassed far more power to control elections—indeed, to control a wide variety of opinions and beliefs—than any company in history has ever had. Google’s search algorithm can easily shift the voting preferences of undecided voters by 20 percent or more—up to 80 percent in some demographic groups—with virtually no one knowing they are being manipulated, according to experiments I conducted recently with Ronald E. Robertson ."
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Governmental control is nothing compared to what Google is up to: the company is creating an unprecedented form of surveillance capitalism.
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Google is rolling out its "Hands Free" payments feature in some California restaurants, so that you can buy goods just by saying “I’ll pay with Google."
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On one side are those who argue that Apple has a duty to aid law enforcement. On the other are those who fear that the case risks setting a dangerous...
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In this extract from his new book When Google Met Wikileaks, WikiLeaks' publisher Julian Assange describes the special relationship between Google, Hillary Clinton and the State Department -- and what that means for the future of the internet. WikiLeaks readers can obtain a 20 percent discount on the cover price when ordering from the OR Books website by using the coupon code "WIKILEAKS".
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For small businesses and ordinary people, tax is compulsory, for tax dodging corporations like Vodafone, Starbucks, Facebook and Google, it is voluntary. It's unbelievable that big companies like Google 'negotiate' the amount of tax they pay. They should be told how much to pay, and made to pay up. Like everyone else. -- UK Uncut…
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t’s a familiar pattern. First there’s an economic crisis. Then comes an enormous restructuring of capital — and with it a restructuring of labor — throwing past certainties into doubt. Old industries, companies, and occupations disappear and new ones emerge, enabled by new technologies. As people struggle to find a way to describe the seismic upheavals in the economic and social landscape, a linguistic mist arises, muddling the features of this new landscape, blurring attempts to analyze and map it.
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Bitcoin.com - The Blockchain Will Help Google Improve Their Authentication Services - posted in NEWS: Google is one of those companies who have the manpower and funding to throw anything they can think of at the wall, just to see what sticks.
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Over the years, Google Translate has gotten significantly better at giving its users (relatively) legible translations for most commonly used languages. It's...
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In a dramatic departure, Google is open sourcing software that sits at the heart of its online empire.
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A guide to what Google knows about you, how to delete the data and how to make sure it knows less about you in the future
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So let's talk about ad blocking.
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The TPP is a bad deal for Internet users. But these tech companies just endorsed it.
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Google wants to know the secret to building a more productive team. The tech giant charged a team to find out. The project, known as Project Aristotle, took several years, and included interviews with hundreds of employees and analysis of data about the people on more than 100 active teams at the company. The Googlers looked har
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Google today announced that it is joining the Open Compute Project (OCP), a five-year-old project founded by Facebook and a number of other companies that..
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From formal courses to online communities, tech giants are realizing that their employees want new tools to solve age-old problems.
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A tale of two taxes. Last week we had the unpleasant spectacle of a smug George Osborne at Davos bragging of the amazing tax deal he had negotiated with Google. Since Davos, a tax deal that has rapidly unravelled. A tax deal so amazing, it was jaw dropping. Following a six year investigation of Google…
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Guests: Robin Chase, Co-founder of Zipcar and Karim Lakhani, Harvard Business School Uber allows us to share cars. Airbnb lets us share homes. What's next? A...
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German publishers have filed a complaint against Google in a row over whether or not the search engine should pay the publishers to show their articles online, a spokesman for VG Media - a consortium of around 200 publishers - told Reuters.
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The responses were alternately impressive, amusing, and unnerving.
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Millions of people around the world want to do what they can to help refugees and migrants caught up in the crisis in Europe, the Middle East and Northern Africa. We wanted to give you an update on where things stand as we continue to think about what Google—and all of us—can do to help.
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It's time for a design revolution in open technology. Companies like Google and Facebook that dominate the Internet promise us free services in exchange for ...
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