James Owen Design

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Change Your Perspective

I applaud UNA for their new modular GPS watch. "Right to Repair" will pick up steam in the near future. Easily replaceable batteries and other modular components should be the baseline of the consumer electronics industry. www.engadget.com/2267443/una-...

Una watch review: A modular, repairable GPS watch is a good first step - Engadget

A small Scottish startup made a modular, repairable smart-ish watch, showing up the rest of the wearables industry in the process.

engadget.com

If someone said to you, “Don’t worry, you don’t need to know how to read, write, or do basic math,” you’d think they’re super weird and you’d wonder why they want to keep you as dumb as possible, so I don’t know why we’re clapping for AI CEOs and allowing them to speak this way.

Data science teams at DraftKings built models to identify likely losers and target them with promotions, while efforts to build predictive models for problem gambling were shelved. The counterpoint on self regulation is companies can be more incentivized to avoid identifying harm than addressing it

At DraftKings, AI Targets the Gamblers Likeliest to Lose (Gift Article)

Data science helps determine who receives betting incentives, but the company has resisted using similar technology to protect gamblers at risk of addiction.

nytimes.com