Google Street View’s Window into How Americans Vote (Look at the Cars)
Instead of people, machines will paint the more accurate picture of how people think, live, and spend. The post Google…
The Race to Sell True Quantum Computers Begins Before They Really Exist
The world’s biggest tech companies are jockeying for quantum supremacy. The post The Race to Sell True Quantum Computers Begins…
Facebook to Telcos: Forget Hardware Empires—Let’s All Share
The social media giant hopes to catalyze a broader market that will mean more internet for more people everywhere. The…
An AI Hedge Fund Created a New Currency to Make Wall Street Work Like Open Source
Wall Street is a Darwinian battle for the almighty dollar. But Richard Craib thinks his AI-powered hedge fund will soar…
Machine Learning Invades the Real World on Internet Balloons
Project Loon’s balloons learned to read the weather better than humans ever could on their own. The post Machine Learning…
Mark Zuckerberg’s Answer to a World Divided by Facebook Is More Facebook
Mark Zuckerberg believes his platform brings people together, despite the evidence that in connecting the world, Facebook may be helping…
Spanner, the Google Database That Mastered Time, Is Now Open to Everyone
About a decade ago, a handful of Google’s most talented engineers started building a system that seems to defy logic.…
AI’s Factions Get Feisty. But Really, They’re All on the Same Team
Artificial intelligence is not one thing—it’s not really a thing at all. It’s many technologies that span several schools of…
AI and Bitcoin Are Driving the Next Big Hedge Fund Wave
Jeffrey Tarrant believes that the hedge fund world is on the verge of a new, Silicon Valley-inspired revolution. He calls…
The AI Threat Isn’t Skynet. It’s the End of the Middle Class
The world’s top AI researchers met to consider the threats posed by their research. The global economy could be the…