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Transportation as a service needs better cities, not smarter cars

I just discovered some declarations from a former vice chairman of General Motors and a Bay Area think thank that confirm what I recently proposed about driverless cars.

How Danish students may become savvy Internet users

It looks like Denmark is discussing a proposal “to encourages students to grant schools access to their personal laptops” in order to avoid cheating at exams. I like it because it is so DUMB that it may achieve a very positive effect anyway, albeit one totally unforeseen by its authors.

Privacy is very recent? So what?

There’s a Medium post about “The Birth and Death of Privacy” that in my opinion is great… except for its very last paragraph.

UK Labour "closer scrutiny of algorithms" will be useless. If you are lucky

It looks like the UK Labour party will soon call for closer scrutiny of tech firms and their algorithms. If all goes well, it just won’t work, and that will the end of it. Otherwise, it will be really bad.

Yahoo, or why geeks need to give ALL their friends a PERSONAL email server now

By now, you probably already know that Yahoo scanned customer emails for U.S. intelligence", and if you haven’t you can read all the details in the previous link, or in many other places. Here, I only want to

Internet of things, who's right? UK or Denmark?

It’s always fun, and useful, when two or more news, that somehow go against each other, are published in the same day. Last Friday we had: