Not Paying Attention in Class? China’s “Smart Eye” Will Snitch on You
China’s mass surveillance operation has a new target: distracted high school students.
Technology
All the Rage in Sweden: Embedding Microchips Under Your Skin
We’re living in the freakin’ future now. Why do we still have to lug around several different credit cards, or keys for irritating doors to the car and the office, when technology has far surpassed the need for any of them?
Everyone Is Flipping Out About Google’s AI Assistant That Just Booked a Haircut
Google’s Assistant AI is getting better every year. It can tell you the weather, or perhaps crack a terrible joke if that’s more your speed. Give it another year or two, and it’ll be able to pre-order your lunch before you even had your morning coffee.
There Are Better Ways to Serve Journalism Than to Rank Outlets by Trustworthiness
You know what will distract Facebook users after a few months of eroding trust? Some new features.
Tiny Robots Will Deliver Your Lunch, Because We Hate Human Interaction
San Francisco-based Starship Technologies wants to remove any human interaction, at least from the process of buying lunch.
Is Google… Evil?
Type something into Google and you’ll be met with an ever-changing list of suggestions as the company’s many algorithms try their hardest to snatch the words right out of your mouth.
Kazuo Ishiguro: Soon, We Will Be Able to Create Humans Who Are Superior to Other Humans
Author Kazuo Ishiguro believes we are unwittingly walking into a dystopian future because the world has yet to give science and technology more than just peripheral interest.
The Genius and Stupidity of Silicon Valley
Knowledge is a tricky thing.
Acquiring and deploying it to change the world through technological innovations can inspire great confidence and self-certainty in the person who possesses the knowledge.