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James Farrell

James Farrell is the former editor-in-chief of Chiang Mai CityNews, where he wrote and managed daily news, features, op-eds and blogs on a diverse range of topics. Prior to this, in the same city of Northern Thailand where he lives, he was the longstanding deputy editor of the monthly magazine Citylife. He has written on culture, politics, travel, tech, business, human rights, for local, national, and international news services and magazines. He has a keen interest in the role technology is playing in the transformation of society, culture and politics, especially in developing nations. This is reflected in his not-so-successful first novel.


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Police using surveillance tool on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter

Social media analytics platform Geofeedia had been feeding information from Facebook, Instagram and Twitter to law enforcement, according to a report just released by the American Civil Liberties Union. Once the ACLU announced its findings, the social media giants were reported to have severed …

The technology that brought a dead friend back from the grave

Arguably the creepiest installment of the outstanding, tech-influenced horror series, “Black Mirror“, is the episode in which a grief stricken woman brings her boyfriend back from dead. “I’ll Be Right Back” and the entire “Black Mirror” series – a new U.S. version …

Google says it has almost cracked language translation

When Google launched its Translate service a decade ago, the Internet was pretty much devoid of digital language translation tools. Google Translate became more useful over time, but it could also be catastrophic if one had serious work to do, leading many …

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