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How Chinese Apps Handled Covid-19
- It would be easy for a big tech company to create an app to track the spread of the coronavirus, but people don’t trust tech company because they have been mining people’s data for years
from Below the Line with James Beshara on Apple Podcasts by James Beshara
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- Youyang Gu: I was an untrained data scientist with zero prior experience in infectious diseases, but I became known as an “expert” in COVID-19. Not that I did it alone — my model was a crowdsourced effort, because I received help and advice from countless individuals on social media. Advancements in technology and dismantling barriers to communicat... See more
from 21 Experts on the Future of Expertise - Future by future.a16z.com
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- How did an app designed by two guys in Shanghai managed to run circles around U.S. video apps from YouTube to Facebook to Instagram to Snapchat, becoming the most fertile source for meme origination, mutation, and dissemination in a culture so different from the one in which it was built?
from TikTok and the Sorting Hat — Remains of the Day by Eugene Wei
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