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on peer-to-peer dynamics in politics, the economy and organizations
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How Facebook’s AI Researchers Built a Game-Changing Go Engine | MIT Technology Review

How Facebook’s AI Researchers Built a Game-Changing Go Engine | MIT Technology Review | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
The best human players easily beat the best computer-based Go engines. That looks set to change thanks to a new approach pioneered by Facebook’s artificial intelligence researchers.
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Let’s nationalize Amazon and Google: Publicly funded technology built Big Tech

Let’s nationalize Amazon and Google: Publicly funded technology built Big Tech | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
They’re huge, they’re ruthless, and they touch every aspect of our daily lives. Corporations like Amazon and Google keep expanding their reach and their power. Despite a history of abuses, so far the Justice Department has declined to take antitrust actions against them. But there’s another solution.
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The Internet as we know it is dying

The Internet as we know it is dying | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
How Facebook and Google are killing the classic Internet and reinventing it in their image
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You Say You Want a Revolution - Huffington Post

You Say You Want a Revolution - Huffington Post | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
"The protests have marked the rise of a new generation... Technology mattered, but this was not a technological revolution. Social networks did not cause these movements, but they kept them alive and connected. Technology allowed us to watch, and it spread the virus of protest, but this was not a wired revolution; it was a human one, of hearts and minds, the oldest technology of all."
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Known: create a single website for all your content

Known: create a single website for all your content | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
Tell your story any way you'd like. Publish words, pictures, podcasts and more to a website that you control - and share to social networks like Twitter and Facebook.
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Death of a libertarian fantasy: Why dreams of a digital utopia are rapidly fading away

Death of a libertarian fantasy: Why dreams of a digital utopia are rapidly fading away | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it

There is no mystery why libertarians love the Internet and all the freedom-enhancing applications, from open source software to Bitcoin, that thrive in its nurturing embrace. The Internet routes around censorship. It enables peer-to-peer connections that scoff at arbitrary geographical boundaries. It provides infinite access to do-it-yourself information. It fuels dreams of liberation from totalitarian oppression. Give everyone a smartphone, and dictators will fall! (Hell, you can even download the code that will let you 3-D print a gun.)

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TOPICS: THE INTERNETLIBERTARIANSTECHNOLOGYSURVEILLANCE STATEPANOPTICONFACEBOOK,GOOGLEEDITOR'S PICKSSHARING ECONOMYPRIVACYINNOVATION NEWSTECHNOLOGY NEWS,POLITICS NEWS

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Project of the Day: Friend Inspector

Project of the Day: Friend Inspector | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it

Do you know who can see the items you’ve posted on Facebook? This, of course, depends on the privacy settings you’ve used for each picture, text or link that you’ve shared throughout your Facebook history.

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Seven Questions for Facebook Infrastructure Guru Frank Frankovsky

Seven Questions for Facebook Infrastructure Guru Frank Frankovsky | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
His day-to-day computing challenges are likely bigger than yours. (Frank Frankovsky, Open Computing Project Mgr, on Facebook's tricks for building/configuring data center hardware.
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