Does your performance review process need a performance review?
Recent headlines have proclaimed that Accenture, Dell, Microsoft and others have “eliminated” the performance review. Actually, these organizations are streamlining…
New peripherals bring Windows Hello to any Windows 10 PC
Japan’s Mouse Computer has developed add-on biometric sensors that will bring Windows Hello to any PC running Windows 10. Windows…
Google suspends Chromebook auto-updates due to critical bug
Chromebooks work on the idea of putting your data and applications in the cloud (not the ones responsible for rain).…
Facebook DeepText A.I. — YOU are the product
Facebook announces new A.I. — DeepText. It will help the social network to improve users’ “experiences” by “solving tricky language…
The Architect of These Monstrous, Alien Cities Is an Algorithm
Daniel Brown crafts entire cities using algorithms and a bit of imagination. The post The Architect of These Monstrous, Alien…
The Physics Behind Captain America’s Ricocheting Shield
Captain America likes to throw his shield so that it bounces off multiple surfaces. How difficult would these kinds of…
Undocumented, Unafraid: Immigrants Find Power Revealing Themselves Online
The connective powers—and relative anonymity—of the Internet are starting to break down the walls of secrecy that surround undocumented immigrants.…
Cape Watch: The Best Way to Promote Suicide Squad? Soccer, Obvi
This week’s superhero movie news is a strange mix of Twitter campaigns, butlers serving up the truth, and Marvel rumors.…
Hacker Lexicon: What Is Fuzzing?
Sometimes hacking isn’t about taking a program apart: It’s about throwing random objects at it to see what breaks. The…
Google’s Training Its AI to Be Android’s Security Guard
Meet the team of Googlers who are hoping that machine learning can help ferret out bugs and vulnerabilities in the…