…And What Is Not Random?
Let’s talk about patterns and compression, and how they relate to entropy. Get ready to wring out your mind-grapes.

July 17, 2014 at 12:11PM
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Play With The Carefree Heart Of A Dog In ‘Dog Park’
Slated to appear this September at New York University’s No Quarter games exhibition, “Dog Park” aims to teach humans a trick or two about play.

July 17, 2014 at 9:58AM
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Inside the Artificial Brain That’s Remaking the Google Empire
Since its birth in the company’s secretive X Labs three years ago, the Google Brain has flourished inside the company, giving its army of software engineers a way to apply cutting-edge machine-learning algorithms to a growing array of problems.

July 17, 2014 at 8:56AM
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How Russian Hackers Stole the Nasdaq
One veteran U.S. official says that when it came to a digital weapon planted in a critical system inside the U.S., he’s seen it only once — in Nasdaq.

July 17, 2014 at 8:07AM
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Inside New York City’s Most Secret Basement
Do you know what lies deep below New York’s Grand Central Terminal? Almost no one who passes through every day has any idea what is underneath their feet.

July 17, 2014 at 8:03AM
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Ax Falls at Microsoft as Company Looks to Cut 18,000 Jobs This Year
Microsoft on Thursday announced it plans to cut 18,000 jobs this year — its deepest-ever cuts — as the company looked to digest its Nokia acquisition and reposition itself for the future.

July 17, 2014 at 7:40AM
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Mathematics makes strong case that “snoopy2” can be just fine as a password
Reusing weaker passwords in some cases can improve security, researchers say.

July 17, 2014 at 6:36AM
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A Clever Plan to Build a Nationwide Network for the Internet of Things
The “Internet of Things” can’t reach its true potential, many believe, unless we have better ways of bringing all these clever new devices online.

July 17, 2014 at 1:57AM
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Google Is Designing the Font of the Future
“Typography is kind of the skeleton. It’s the unsung hero,” Matias Duarte, Google’s vice president of design, said in an interview this week. “We’re trying to give people one logical, consistent system.”

July 16, 2014 at 7:54PM
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Amazon is testing “Kindle Unlimited,” an ebook subscription service for $9.99/month
Amazon is testing an ebook and audiobook subscription service called “Kindle Unlimited” that would cost $9.99 a month. According to pages that were pulled down, it will offer access to over 600,000 titles.

July 16, 2014 at 1:04PM
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