Twitter’s Pro-Trump Bot Crisis Is Really A Human Crisis
The intense focus on Twitter’s pro-Trump bot scourge is an enticing but partial explanation for a far more difficult problem.

June 6, 2017 at 07:05PM
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Uber Fires More Than 20 Employees in Harassment Probe
Uber said it fired more than 20 people after a company investigation into harassment claims.

June 6, 2017 at 04:55PM
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What If We Could Use Neural Technology To Block People In Real Life
Want to avoid your shitty ex at a party? That crying baby on a plane? That person so vocally obnoxious about opposing political views? Maybe, in the future, you will be able to “block” them from your life. Tom Scott takes this idea to its insane conclusion.

June 6, 2017 at 02:07PM
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You’re Going To Talk To All Your Gadgets. And They’re Going To Talk Back.
Amazon’s Echo speaker made chatty, at-home bots mainstream — and now Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung are all in on the battle for your voice.

June 6, 2017 at 12:35PM
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Apple’s WWDC Keynote Lays Out a Vision for the Future
Without once saying the words “artificial intelligence,” a stream of Apple executives described a vision of the near future in which Siri, the company’s AI avatar, stitches together the company’s many hardware products.

June 6, 2017 at 11:33AM
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Spearing A Car With A Giant Fucking Knife
Testing the MegaBots weapons is starting to get pretty surreal.

June 6, 2017 at 10:00AM
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The Silicon Valley Billionaires Remaking America’s Schools
They are influencing what students learn, and how teachers teach — with millions of children serving as de facto beta testers for their ideas.

June 6, 2017 at 07:32AM
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Cable TV “failing” as a business, cable industry lobbyist says
Broadband is the future as TV faces rising costs and online video competition.

June 6, 2017 at 06:38AM
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The Second Coming Of iPad
With new hardware and a next-generation operating system heavy on tablet-specific improvements, Apple is on a campaign to make the iPad your primary computing device.

June 5, 2017 at 09:45PM
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Antitrust Watchdogs Eye Big Tech’s Monopoly on Your Data
American antitrust officials ponder whether the Standard Oils of Silicon Valley should face scrutiny on more than just price.

June 5, 2017 at 02:37PM
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