​The AI That Learned Magic (the Gathering)
Reed Morgan Milewicz, a programmer and computer science researcher, may be the first person to teach an AI to do Magic, literally.

June 12, 2015 at 02:58PM
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Silicon Valley’s infamous ‘Startup Castle’ is getting evicted
Wherever Startup Castle 2.0 is, let’s hope the new landlord is more tolerant of “excellence” and “epic ideas” than the current one.

June 12, 2015 at 02:16PM
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Apple’s Support of Ad Blocking May Upend How the Web Works
Apple is coming for ads. It’s coming for publishers. And, in the process, it may be gunning for the web.

June 12, 2015 at 12:50PM
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How Wi-Fi Will Power Tomorrow’s Battle Gear
Cords and batteries are a burden on the battlefield. Will future devices be powered by radio waves… from space?

June 12, 2015 at 06:16AM
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The Trouble With Screenshorts
The screenshort is what a programmer or an architect — or, incidentally, a blind person — might call a universal design failure.

June 12, 2015 at 03:27AM
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The brief, wondrous life of the DVD
The people who brought DVDs into the world could never even agree on what the letters should stand for. Ultimately, the official position of the DVD Forum, the consortium of companies with ownership of the technology, is that DVD “stands for nothing.” It’s a fitting acronym, then, for a technology so quickly fading into insignificance.

June 11, 2015 at 10:19PM
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Exclusive: BlackBerry may put Android system on new device: sources
The sources, who asked not to be named as they have not been authorized to discuss the matter publicly, said the move to use Android is part of BlackBerry’s strategy to pivot to focus on software and device management.

June 11, 2015 at 09:35PM
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Wonder and Control
The most wonderfully perfect capitalist machine of all.

June 11, 2015 at 08:38PM
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Hackers Took Info on Every Current Federal Government Worker
A week after the government disclosed a massive hacking breach on government computer systems containing sensitive information on federal employees, the head of the country’s biggest union representing some of those workers shed some new light on what kind of information was compromised.

June 11, 2015 at 07:30PM
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Under the gun: how the perfect rifle missed its target
While building some of the deadliest rifles in the world, TrackingPoint employees say they went through hell.

June 11, 2015 at 05:26PM
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