The Art Of Manipulating Algorithms
Meet the “AI nudge,” a method of subtly “persuading” algorithms.

March 3, 2017 at 05:48AM
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Facebook Is Using Artificial Intelligence To Help Prevent Suicide
“The AI is actually more accurate than the reports that we get from people,” Facebook Product Manager Vanessa Callison-Burchold told BuzzFeed News.

March 3, 2017 at 01:39AM
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Snap’s Two Co-Founders Are Now Worth $5.3 Billion Each After IPO
Investor appetite for the first tech listing of the year boosted the fortunes of Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy.

March 2, 2017 at 05:58PM
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Why Quantum Computers Won’t Break Classical Cryptography
A recent New Yorker article stated that a quantum computer “would, on its first day of operation, be capable of cracking the Internet’s most widely used codes.” But maybe they won’t be as useful as we have been led to believe.

March 2, 2017 at 05:28PM
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Your Teeth Are Helping Scientists Build Better Airplanes
The core structure of tooth enamel hasn’t changed much over the ages. So, scientists are once again copying a tried-and-true Mother Nature design to potentially improve the strength and safety of airplanes.

March 2, 2017 at 04:22PM
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How a typo took down S3, the backbone of the internet
Earlier this week, much of the internet ground to a halt when the servers that power them suddenly vanished. And it was all thanks to a typo.

March 2, 2017 at 01:54PM
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Devialet and the Coming Sonic Boom
Backed by Jay Z and the Qatari wealth fund, a French inventor wants to squeeze the technology of his $15,000 audiophile amplifier into your mobile phone.

March 2, 2017 at 12:31PM
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Questions hover over Army drone’s 630-mile odyssey across western US
Mystery shrouds the rogue flight of an Army unmanned surveillance aircraft that was launched from southern Arizona on Jan. 31, flew hundreds of miles independent from human control and was found Feb. 9, broken apart in a tree outside Denver.

March 2, 2017 at 08:26AM
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Yahoo punishes CEO in latest fallout from security breakdown
Yahoo is punishing CEO Marissa Mayer and parting ways with its top lawyer for the mishandling of two security breaches that exposed the personal information of more than 1 billion users and already have cost the company $350 million.

March 2, 2017 at 06:35AM
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JPMorgan Marshals an Army of Developers to Automate High Finance
The program, called COIN, for Contract Intelligence, does the mind-numbing job of interpreting commercial-loan agreements in seconds.

March 1, 2017 at 11:03PM
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