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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Leading robotics companies say they don’t want their technologies to be weaponized

EMERGING TECH By JAMES FARRELL4 YEARS AGO

Six well-known robotics companies today signed a letter stating they’re against any of their products being turned into weapons. The companies were Robotics, Agility, ANYbotics, Boston Dynamics, Clearpath Robotics, Open Robotics and Unitree Robotics. They each said that general-purpose robots should be …

Google follows Meta in introducing text-to-video AI

AI By JAMES FARRELL4 YEARS AGO

Researchers at Google LLC’s AI lab, Google Brain, today unveiled Imagen Video, a program that can create high-quality videos from text, similar to what Meta Platforms Inc. introduced last week. Google calls Imagen Video a “text-conditional video generation system based on a cascade …

White House releases ‘AI Bill of Rights’ to protect consumers from harm

POLICY By JAMES FARRELL4 YEARS AGO

The White House today issued a set of guidelines for artificial intelligence in the hope that technology companies will be more transparent about the AI systems they use and will put limits on how they employ them. The bill, which has been …

Amnesty says Meta amplified hatred during Myanmar’s ethnic cleansing of Rohingya

POLICY By JAMES FARRELL4 YEARS AGO

A lengthy report published today by Amnesty International had some stern words for Meta Platforms Inc., saying the company’s “algorithms proactively amplified and promoted content which incited violence, hatred, and discrimination against the Rohingya.” When Meta was still called Facebook, the company …

Pornhub is now using AI to persuade people not to search for illegal content

AI By JAMES FARRELL4 YEARS AGO

The world’s largest pornography website, Pornhub, today will begin employing artificial intelligence to prevent people from seeing child sexual abuse content. When people search for such material, and it seems they do, a chatbot will pop up on their screen and tell …

Oracle set to pay $23 million in second SEC foreign bribery settlement

POLICY By JAMES FARRELL4 YEARS AGO

The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that Oracle Corp. will pay a settlement of $23 million after being charged with bribing foreign officials in a number of foreign countries. The regulator alleged that between 2016 and 2019, subsidiaries of Oracle in …

Walmart goes after younger customers by putting itself in the metaverse

EMERGING TECH By JAMES FARRELL4 YEARS AGO

Walmart Inc. today announced that it’s launching two immersive experiences on the popular online game platform Roblox, an effort the company hopes will attract a younger kind of shopper. These new virtual worlds will be called “Walmart Land” and “Walmart’s Universe of …

Meta showed bias when moderating Israel-Palestine conflict, says new report

POLICY By JAMES FARRELL4 YEARS AGO

An independent report commissioned by Meta Platforms Inc. shows that the company showed bias against Palestinians during the 2021 Israel-Palestine crisis. The report, released today, said that when the social media giant was moderating its platform during the conflict between Israel and …

Meta reportedly is trying to cut costs by 10% by pushing staff out the door

APPS By JAMES FARRELL4 YEARS AGO

Meta Platforms Inc. will attempt to cut costs by about 10% over the next few months, which will mean a bit of a shakeup at the company, the Wall Street Journal reported today. People familiar with the situation told the Journal that rather …

Spotify says its new audiobook service in the US is ‘just the beginning’

APPS By JAMES FARRELL4 YEARS AGO

Spotify Inc. launched its audiobook service today in the U.S., which might give Amazon.com Inc. something to think about. In a blog post today, the company said it has known for a long time that there is unlimited potential for audio, so …

James Farrell

Latest from James Farrell

Leading robotics companies say they don’t want their technologies to be weaponized

Google follows Meta in introducing text-to-video AI

White House releases ‘AI Bill of Rights’ to protect consumers from harm

Amnesty says Meta amplified hatred during Myanmar’s ethnic cleansing of Rohingya

Pornhub is now using AI to persuade people not to search for illegal content

Oracle set to pay $23 million in second SEC foreign bribery settlement

Walmart goes after younger customers by putting itself in the metaverse

Meta reportedly is trying to cut costs by 10% by pushing staff out the door

Spotify says its new audiobook service in the US is ‘just the beginning’

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