The Deadly Recklessness Of The Self-Driving Car Industry
Autonomous vehicles were supposed to make driving safer and they may yet — some of the more optimistic research indicates self-driving cars could save tens of thousands of lives a year in the US alone.

December 14, 2018 at 07:54AM
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The Generator Powered By Neural Networks Is Scarily Good At Making And Tweaking People’s Faces
First we mastered morphing from one face to another, then generating entirely new faces from neural networks — what you’re seeing here is a tool that lets you generate and morph faces based on particular traits like age and pose. Kinda creepy, but maybe this’ll be good for video game character creators?

December 14, 2018 at 06:55AM
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Postmates’ Quest To Build The Delivery Robot Of The Future
It’s a heroic view of what the team here is building, and one that makes Postmates X feel less like a robotics R&D lab, more like a bid to save the world.

December 14, 2018 at 12:42AM
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2018’s Tech Trends And Tribulations In 14 Charts
We’ve endured disasters both natural and manmade, political polarization and the relentless encroachment of big technology companies. Before we leave it behind, here’s a look back at 2018’s tech, tribulations and trends in charts.

December 13, 2018 at 07:00PM
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We Have To Admit, We’d Wear This Windows 95 Sweater
Does… does that mean the brands have won?

December 13, 2018 at 05:18PM
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I Used All The Best Stuff For A Week And It Nearly Broke Me
Living like a fancy millennial was wonderful, until it wasn’t.

December 12, 2018 at 08:14AM
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Intel unveils Foveros 3D chip stacking and new 10nm ‘chiplets’
At an Architecture Day event hosted this week, Intel articulated an unusually lucid strategy for its development of future processors, most of which will revolve around fragmenting the various elements of a modern CPU into individual, stackable “chiplets.”

December 12, 2018 at 08:14AM
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The Future Of Software Isn’t An App. It’s A Habit
“The companies that establish habits are the ones that will win. If you’re not on the first page of someone’s home screen, then you might as well not even exist.”

December 11, 2018 at 10:09PM
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The Chatbot Bubble Has Officially Burst
Google Allo is the latest casualty of Silicon Valley’s course correction on conversational interfaces.

December 11, 2018 at 09:06PM
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Malware App Steals 1,000 Euros From A User’s PayPal Account In Seconds
As always, a reminder to not download random, possibly sketchy apps to your phone, like this “Android Optimization” app that’s just the delivery mechanism for malware that robs your PayPal.

December 11, 2018 at 03:14PM
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