The Brilliant Simplicity of New York’s New Times Square
Six years ago Times Square was a congested thoroughfare. Today it celebrates its reopening as a European-style piazza. The post…
How Steve Wozniak Got Over His Fear of Robots Turning People Into Pets
The Apple Co-founder talks pranks, his forthcoming comic book convention, and why he no longer fears our robot overlords. The…
Battlefront II Knows Good Star Wars Games—It Already Was One
The newest installment in EA’s series of multiplayer Star Wars shooters is getting its ideas from the right place: its…
This Robot Baby Factory Is the Stuff of Nightmares
Babies tossed in boxes. Babies wrapped in plastic. Babies whacked with mallets. Just another day at Realityworks in Wisconsin. The…
Want to Fix Science’s Replication Crisis? Then Replicate
Opinion: Researchers should spend more trying to reproduce other scientists’ results. The post Want to Fix Science’s Replication Crisis? Then…
The Shocking Lack of Science Behind Lethal Injections
No one knows if lethal injection really is more humane than other execution methods. And they can’t really find out.…
Facebook’s Augmented Reality Engine Brings AI Right to Your Phone
Facebook can’t realize its AR ambitions if AI stays tied to data centers. So it’s bringing neural nets right to…
AI Isn’t Smart Enough (Yet) to Spot Horrific Facebook Videos
But it’s getting there. The post AI Isn’t Smart Enough (Yet) to Spot Horrific Facebook Videos appeared first on WIRED.…
In Facebook’s Future, You Live Through Your Phone
At today’s Facebook F8 conference, Mark Zuckerberg detailed a mobile-first AR future that may not pan out. The post In…
Anger Isn’t Enough, So the #Resistance Is Weaponizing Data
Jon Ossoff’s campaign for Congress proves just how powerful the “resistance” has become—and how haphazard. Progressive number-crunchers hope to change…