If We Want Humane AI, It Has to Understand All Humans
We can design and program AI to the end of time, but until they have empathy, they’re no use to us.

October 31, 2015 at 09:09PM
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The trust machine
The technology behind bitcoin could transform how the economy works.

October 31, 2015 at 01:30PM
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Why The Machines That Dig Tunnels Are Always Named After Women
Tunnel Boring Machines, or TBMs, are some of the most fascinating manufacturers of our infrastructure: Two-ton primary-colored cylinders with jagged teeth that chomp through the Earth. And every single one of them has a traditionally female name.

October 31, 2015 at 01:30PM
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Why Artificial Intelligence Researchers Love ‘Super Mario Bros.’
Games are ideal platforms for this sort of work; the logic, creativity, situational awareness, and decision-making skills required of players is what researchers are striving for in AI. But what, exactly, is it about “Mario” games that has made them the platform of choice?

October 31, 2015 at 11:10AM
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Don’t Cross The Streams: The Tech Of Modern “Ghost Hunting”
Like most other industries these day, paranormal investigators rely on specialized technology to do their jobs.

October 31, 2015 at 10:08AM
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Finding the Self in a Selfie
Is the selfie merely a genre of informal self-portraiture, or does it crowd out deeper investigation of who we are?

October 31, 2015 at 12:15AM
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Google’s new ‘Who’s Down’ app shows which of your friends are free to hang out
As you might be able to tell from its name, the app will apparently — once there are people who are actually using it — let you see which of your friends are free to hang out.

October 30, 2015 at 04:36PM
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Visiting Etsy, Amazon’s Next Prey
Handmade at Amazon, which launched earlier this month, is surely hoping to encroach on Etsy’s stable of more than a million sellers.

October 30, 2015 at 01:07PM
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South by Southwest 2016 Music, Film and Interactive Festivals – Austin Texas
“It is clear that online harassment is a problem that requires more than two panel discussions to address.

To that end, we’ve added a day-long summit to examine this topic. Scheduled on Saturday, March 12, the Online Harassment Summit will take place at SXSW 2016, and we plan to live-stream the content free for the public throughout the day.”

October 30, 2015 at 01:07PM
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Massive Online Open Courses Can Be Better Than Traditional Teaching Methods
The success and tremendous educational potential for MOOCs has been dinged by some high-profile articles in the past couple of years. But MOOCs can be artistically and technically fascinating and can have terrific pedagogical advantages.

October 30, 2015 at 12:03PM
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