A couple of weeks ago an anonymous Twitter account told the story of an almost-forgotten Microsoft April Fool’s prank, the 1996 seeding of empty boxes of a “Microsoft Coffee” Java development tool across Seattle. Of course, at the time,...
Williams’s wrongful arrest, which was first reported by the New York Times in August 2020, was based on a bad match from the Detroit Police Department’s facial recognition system. Two more instances of false arrests have since been made...
You’ve probably never heard of Acxiom, but it likely knows you: The Arkansas firm claims to have data on 2.5 billion people around the world. And in the US, if someone’s interested in that information, there are virtually no...
There are more than 8.3 billion mobile phones in use today and its amazing how many people have no idea how they work. Technology can often seem like magic, but wireless communicate is far from magic, it is...
Points of presence, simply put, are physical, public cloud data centers located all over the world, providing access and public cloud hosting services. We’ve seen these pop up on our cloud dashboards as we select regions to host public...
These desperate efforts ask parents to overcome nearly impossible obstacles. They must become experts in drug development, raise millions, and tirelessly cajole scientists. Few people can pull it off. “There are a lot of people who know how to...
Arts Centre Melbourne and the University of Melbourne are partnering in support of Child of Now – a hugely ambitious, technology driven public art commission conceived by Artist Robert Walton and co-written by First Nations Author and Activist Claire...
Oracle founder Larry Ellison. | Phillip Faraone/Getty Images The Oracle founder moved to Hawaii late last year. He’s not coming back. Oracle founder Larry Ellison on Monday pushed back on the notion that he could...
Chromebooks come in a bewildering array of options. Sometimes even trying to decide which options to get on a single model can be overwhelming. I have to use a spreadsheet to keep it all straight, but you shouldn't have...
Safety, like any other aptitude, must be built and trained into the artificial intelligence that animates robotic intelligence. No one will tolerate robots that routinely smash into people, endanger passengers riding in autonomous vehicles, or order products online without...
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