America has long carried on a great love affair with technological progress. But the truth is that really big inventions—the printing press, the internal-combustion engine, the internet—have both upsides and downsides. They make new things possible, but they...
America has long carried on a great love affair with technological progress. But the truth is that really big inventions—the printing press, the internal-combustion engine, the internet—have both upsides and downsides. They make new things possible, but they...
It’s that time of the year when PR folk promote their clients as somebody who can make predictions for 2021 that all should regard. I’m often taken back by the obvious nature of the assertions, such as “cloud computing...
Machine learning typically requires tons of examples. To get an AI model to recognize a horse, you need to show it thousands of images of horses. This is what makes the technology computationally expensive—and very different from human learning....
It’s a sad truth that not only do escapist pursuits rarely exist separately from real life, some have a nasty tendency to exacerbate real-life problems. And while gaming offers a reprieve from thinking about dooms both personal and global,...
Technology companies provide much of the critical infrastructure of the modern state and develop products that affect fundamental rights. Search and social media companies, for example, have set de facto norms on privacy, while facial recognition and predictive policing...
Jasper James/Getty Images A couple of years ago, I was standing on a platform in the New Delhi train station and noticed severalmen watching a big Mumbai-Delhi cricket match on a crystal-clear...
Java 5 brought generics to the Java language. In this article, I introduce you to generics and discuss generic types, generic methods, generics and type inference, generics controversy, and generics and heap pollution. download Download the source code...
CIOs and IT leaders are stuck in a paradox of competing priorities regarding developing, enhancing, and modernizing applications. On the one hand, they seek innovation, experiences that delight end-users, and agile devops practices that enable the quick delivery of...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel on October 14, in Berlin. | Florian Gaertner/Photothek via Getty Images Coronavirus is surging in Europe — but less so in Germany. Here’s why. Germany gets a lot of favorable Covid-19 press —...
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