If venture capital and research funding are any indication, artificial intelligence will play a leading role in shaping our future. And few tech innovators in the private or public sector have been as prominent in defining that role as Andrew Ng, chief scientist at China’s search giant Baidu. Ng has…

2) “Grayson ran away and hid” = he didn’t fight back like ZQ. You misunderstood me. 3) From your own link: “some people posting in her comments section, one under the name “Gaimerg8,” doxxed her, sharing what they claimed was her home address” B.S…. YOU could’ve just as easily been “Gaimerg8″. I…

Facebook Inc. doesn’t yet have an intelligent assistant, like the iPhone’s Siri. But the social-networking company says it’s aiming higher, in what has become one of the biggest battles raging between Silicon Valley’s behemoths: How to commercialize artificial intelligence. The once-niche field is…

On May 1st, International Workers’ Day, I will be publicly discussing my job title, my experience and my salary on #talkpay and I urge everyone to do so as well. Pay inequality is an oft-discussed topic. There are measurable pay discrepancies between groups when looking at race and gender which are…

The case for cuts was a lie. Why does Britain still believe it? Wednesday 29 April 2015 02.00 EDT Last modified on Friday 1 May 2015 05.52 EDT Paul Krugman Wednesday 29 April 2015 02.00 EDT Last modified on Friday 1 May 2015 05.52 EDT In May 2010, as Britain headed into its last general election,…

Since its founding in 2009, Andreessen Horowitz has become a top Silicon Valley venture capital firm by adhering to a simple mantra: It’s all about the talent. The firm looks closely at business plans, market analysis and the details of new technologies, of course. But whenever possible, it answers…

Image: Gage Skidmore/Flickr A US senator is concerned about privacy and wants some answers on how exactly the Drug Enforcement Administration has been using powerful hacking software bought from a controversial Italian surveillance company. Sen. Charles “Chuck” Grassley (R-Iowa), sent a letter with…

This post will include all my coverage on USA F-ReDux. USA F-ReDux: Chaining on “Session Identifying Information” that Is Not Call Detail Records As I correctly predicted a year ago, by outsourcing “connection chaining” to the providers, the Intelligence Community plans to be able to chain on…

Alles hat auf dem schwarzen Sofa in ihrer kleinen Zweizimmerwohnung begonnen. Stundenlang saß sie darauf im Schneidersitz, einen schwarzen Hidschab übergeworfen, die Haare, der Hals, die Arme verdeckt. Nur das Gesicht und die Hände schauten hervor, auf dem Schoß aufgeklappt lag ihr Computer. Abu…

It was hard to avoid it in the past week — the crazy bridge that appeared to rise almost vertically somewhere in far-off, exotic Japan. It’s a magnificent structure that owes its newfound fame to a combination of engineering excellence, sensationalist reporting and public gullibility. Finding…

By Alana MasseyIllustrations by Ana Benaroya My Tinder match decisions had grown more rapid and decisive. Handsome but no bio and all shirtless gym selfies? Dick is abundant and low value. Lists only an Instagram as a bio? Dick is abundant and low value. Quotes Jack Kerouac’s “The only ones for me…

On the evening of April 25 at the corner of Pratt and Light Streets, in Baltimore’s revitalized downtown district, more than 100 police officers in riot gear stood shoulder to shoulder, shields up. Six officers on horseback fidgeted behind them, staring down at a crowd of about 40, an odd mixture of…

Mit dem Browser-Plugin bekommen Sie die Informationen von Lobbyradar genau dort, wo Sie im Netz unterwegs sind. Einmal installiert, erkennt das Lobbyradar-Plugin alle Personen und Organisationen unserer Lobby-Datenbank in den Texten, die Sie lesen. Die gefundenen Personen oder Organisationen werden…

For nearly a year before it even happened, I worried. I worried about what would happen to her without me, and what you would think of me for abandoning her. I worried about how I could explain. I worried about it all the time. And when the day finally came, I convinced myself that I didn’t need to…

Apple can’t grow like this forever. No company can. In a few short years, Apple has become the biggest company on the planet by market value — so big that it dwarfs every other one on the stock market. It dominates the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index as no other company has in 30 years. Apple’s…

Hollywood actress Audrey Hepburn and martial arts legend Bruce Lee represent just a few of the dead celebrities whom have been resurrected as digital avatars in TV commercials to sell products such as chocolate or whiskey. A Google patent raises a new possibility by describing robot personalities…

Amazon unveiled the financial performance of its powerful growth engine for the first time on Thursday, and the numbers sure looked pretty — especially compared with big companies like Microsoft and Google that are chasing it. While Amazon is primarily known as an online retailer, its revenue and…

Since Apple and Google announced last year that they would encrypt mobile user data by default, senior Western officials have denounced the decision as a win for terrorists and violent criminals who will now be better able to shield their communications from government scrutiny. So-called always-on…

Image: ​Flickr/Mycatkins ​Richard* had a long drive ahead of him. About an hour earlier, at 5:30 AM, his wife Lisa* had phoned. “The house is filled up,” she said in a calm but audibly tense voice. Richard, having just woken up and now trying to make sense of the call, thought there must have been…

Deutschland hilft den USA bei ihrem völkerrechtswidrigen Drohnenkrieg. Die Bundesregierung will sich dieser Verantwortung nicht stellen. Also leugnet sie – seit Jahren. Einfahrt zum US-Luftwaffenstützpunkt Ramstein bei Kaiserslautern | © DANIEL ROLAND/AFP/Getty Images “Wir wissen von nichts.” – “Die…

Archive.org/Ron Amadeo A gallery of YouTube’s homepage design over the years. This homepage from 2005 kind of looks like Google. YouTube put search front and center with featured videos listed below. Archive.org/Ron Amadeo A gallery of YouTube’s homepage design over the years. This homepage from…

WASHINGTON — The secrecy surrounding the National Security Agency’s post-9/11 warrantless surveillance and bulk data collection program hampered its effectiveness, and many members of the intelligence community later struggled to identify any specific terrorist attacks it thwarted, a newly…

Impressive results from FoneFox in Australia: they had it submerged in a pool for 15 minutes and it came out no worse for the wear. ★

All three are good — exactly the right tone and purpose. They’re humane — emotional, not technical. My favorite is “Us”. That’s the one I’d put in heaviest rotation on TV. My wife’s watch arrived a few hours ago. After setting it up and playing with the communication features, she said something to…

Good collection from Serenity Caldwell. Clearing all notifications with a force tap is a great feature — and something that’s sorely missing on iOS and OS X. ★

Dell Glover manufactured CDs for a living, but he began to wonder: if the MP3 was just as good, why bother with the CD? One Saturday in 1994, Bennie Lydell Glover, a temporary employee at the PolyGram compact-disk manufacturing plant in Kings Mountain, North Carolina, went to a party at the house of…

Every morning, Kim Casipong strolls past barbed wire, six dogs, and a watchman in order to get to her job in a pink apartment building decorated with ornate stonework in Lapu-Lapu City. The building towers above the slums surrounding it—houses made of scrap wood with muddy goat pens in place of…

When Edward Snowden revealed the government’s vast surveillance programs in 2013, the Obama administration responded with a defense that sounded compelling: the high-tech spying apparatus had stopped terrorist attacks.

Carnegie Corporation of New York has named 32 Andrew Carnegie Fellows as the inaugural class of a major annual fellowship program that will provide support for scholars in the social sciences and humanities. The Fellows will receive awards of up to $200,000 each, which will enable them to take…

Re/code If it keeps growing at the rate it has from this time last year, Amazon Web Services will finish 2015 with a business approaching $7 billion in revenue. And if it hits the $102 billion in overall revenue that analysts expect, that will make AWS account for about 7 percent of sales…

It all started with an awkward moment online. In the early 1980s, computer scientist Scott Fahlman realised his words were failing him. When communicating with others on a forum, he found that it was difficult to convey that some posts were meant to be taken as a joke. So one day, he strung together…

I’ve heard people wonder if we’re in a bubble with regard to startups. Is it as bad as the 2000 dot-com bubble? Might it actually be worse? I thought it would be worthwhile to look at the available data to see if we can figure this out with more than just a personal opinion. So I asked our…

In a fancy room in an even fancier hotel during January’s Sundance Film Festival, Saschka Unseld is doing something he’s not used to doing: playing pitchman. But when you’re trying to change the way people watch movies, you do what you have to. The room today is full of the usual festival…

China has been actively diverting unencrypted Web traffic destined for its top online search service — Baidu.com — so that some visitors from outside of the country were unwittingly enlisted in a novel and unsettling series of denial-of-service attacks aimed at sidelining sites that distribute…

For months, federal law enforcement agencies and industry have been deadlocked on a highly contentious issue: Should tech companies be obliged to guarantee government access to encrypted data on smartphones and other digital devices, and is that even possible without compromising the security of…

This post describes our analysis of China’s “Great Cannon,” our term for an attack tool that we identify as separate from, but co-located with, the Great Firewall of China. The first known usage of the Great Cannon is in the recent large-scale novel DDoS attack on both GitHub and servers used by…

"What the hell happened?" It is a cold day in early December in Midtown Manhattan, and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has barely taken his seat on stage when his interviewer throws out that brusque query. It’s the question on the lips of every one of the 400 attendees of this tech conference, but it’s still…

Slut-shaming, the public exposure and shaming of individuals for their (perceived or actual) sexual behavior, is rife on the Internet; it primarily affects women, and it too often has tragic outcomes. Slut-shaming is not new, but a form of cultural suppression of female sexuality that has been…

If you’ve studied computer science in the last twenty years, you know Stewart Russell — as he co-authored Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach with Peter Norvig, which has been the standard textbook in the field for the last two decades. An extraordinarily clear and engaging text, it was well…

Close your eyes, and envision a glowing crystal suspended in infinite space. Now breathe in slowly, counting backwards from 10. Energy pulses along the interstices of the crystal. Exhale, and imagine a second crystal, precisely like the first – then a dozen, a hundred, 100,000 crystals multiplying…