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.

Latest from James Farrell

The IRS is building a government-run system for tax preparation

POLICY By JAMES FARRELL3 YEARS AGO

The Internal Revenue Service has been working on a system for Americans to file their taxes in one place, for free, according to an article in The Washington Post today. The Biden administration wants Americans to have an alternative to tax preparation …

Italy’s antitrust watchdog begins probe into Apple’s app market dominance

POLICY By JAMES FARRELL3 YEARS AGO

Italy’s antitrust watchdog announced today that it has launched an investigation into Apple Inc. for what it believes could be the iPhone maker’s abuse of its dominant position in the app market, a probe that follows similar European antitrust probes into American …

Wendy’s teams up with Google to release an AI chatbot that takes orders

AI By JAMES FARRELL3 YEARS AGO

Wendy’s International Inc. is partnering with Google LLC in the creation of a chatbot-powered drive-thru, the Wall Street Journal reported today. Amid what has become a generative AI boom of late, it comes as no surprise that a fast-food chain is playing with the …

FTC wants to stop Meta from monetizing young people’s data

POLICY By JAMES FARRELL3 YEARS AGO

The Federal Trade Commission today shared some stern words with Meta Platforms Inc., accusing the company of breaching a child privacy protection order, adding that it’s time there was a “blanket prohibition” on Meta collecting the data of kids. The FTC, which …

Co-founders of LinkedIn and Google DeepMind release a chatbot designed to get you through your day

AI By JAMES FARRELL3 YEARS AGO

The California-based company Inflection AI released to the public today the Pi chatbot, a talkative AI that’s designed to give people advice and be a friend rather than merely a tool to enhance work. Pi (for “personal intelligence”) was launched in March …

Researchers use AI combined with MRI to decode human thoughts

AI By JAMES FARRELL3 YEARS AGO

Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have been using artificial intelligence in combination with fMRI scans to translate brain activity into continuous text. The results were published today in the Nature Journal under the title, “Semantic reconstruction of continuous language …

Tesla defense lawyers say Elon Musk’s past statements about autopilot safety could be deepfakes

POLICY By JAMES FARRELL3 YEARS AGO

A California judge today said that Tesla Motors Inc. Chief Executive Elon Musk should be questioned under oath over his claims about the company’s autopilot safety, after Musk’s lawyers argued that those comments could be deepfakes. After crashes in Tesla vehicles where …

Bipartisan bill aims to ban kids under 13 from using social media

AI By JAMES FARRELL3 YEARS AGO

A bipartisan bill introduced today would stop anyone in the U.S. under 13 years of age from using social media as well as put limits on all young people from getting onto such platforms. The “Protecting Kids on Social Media Act,” is …

UK bill aims to tackle big tech’s dominance in digital markets

POLICY By JAMES FARRELL3 YEARS AGO

The U.K. announced today that its Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill will crack down on the dominance of some of the world’s leading tech companies. Despite mammoth efforts by big tech to stop the bill from going through, their lobbying has not …

Supreme Court to hear cases involving disputes over public officials blocking people on social media

POLICY By JAMES FARRELL3 YEARS AGO

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear two First Amendment rights cases in which public officials blocked people on their social media accounts. The cases both related to a case involving former president Donald Trump, in which he argued that he should have …

James Farrell

Latest from James Farrell

The IRS is building a government-run system for tax preparation

Italy’s antitrust watchdog begins probe into Apple’s app market dominance

Wendy’s teams up with Google to release an AI chatbot that takes orders

FTC wants to stop Meta from monetizing young people’s data

Co-founders of LinkedIn and Google DeepMind release a chatbot designed to get you through your day

Researchers use AI combined with MRI to decode human thoughts

Tesla defense lawyers say Elon Musk’s past statements about autopilot safety could be deepfakes

UK bill aims to tackle big tech’s dominance in digital markets

Supreme Court to hear cases involving disputes over public officials blocking people on social media

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