Brexit and a Border Town: Troubles Ahead in Northern Ireland?
Although there is little grassroots support for a wholesale return to armed struggle, Brexit does carry the risk of violence. Any form of Brexit that implies the...
Publisher Sues AdBlock Plus For Copyright Infringement
There can be little doubt that without revenues generated by advertising, today’s web would be a very different animal. Many sites live or die by the...
Geek Trivia: Which HTML Tag Was Implemented As A Joke?
Which HTML Tag Was Implemented As A Joke? frame aside easteregg blink Think you know the answer? Source : Geek Trivia: Which HTML Tag Was Implemented...
Speed Test Company Calls BS on AT&T’s Claim ‘5G E’ Is the Fastest Wireless Network
AT&T’s claim that its “5G E” network—which is a regular 4G network boosted with some technical tricks, misleadingly rebranded as next-generation 5G—has helped make it the...
The creation of the algorithm that made the first black hole image possible was led by MIT grad student Katie Bouman
The development of the algorithm that made it possible to create the first image ever of a black hole was led by computer scientist Katie Bouman...
The black hole photo you’ve seen everywhere is thanks to this MIT grad’s algorithm
You’ve seen the very first photo of a black hole, now meet the person who helped to pull it together. MIT grad student Katie Bouman was...
Amazon’s Human Helpers Are Quietly Listening in on Some Alexa Recordings
There’s been a number of incidents where Amazon’s Alexa digital assistant has done things like misinterpret something it overheard and started sending random people recordings of...
Democrats Introduce Bill Requiring Tech Companies To Check Algorithms For Bias
Inside Silicon Valley, the consensus is that artificial intelligence will be the most important technology for the next decade. Okay, but what the hell does that...
A fight is brewing between two machine intelligence startups, and neither side looks all that smart
Sometimes, reading a lawsuit, it’s tempting to pick sides, to judge who is more right than wrong based on its contents. But a new lawsuit involving...
With consumer G+ dead, Currents hopes to make waves in the enterprise
Google today announced that Google+ in G Suite, the last remaining remnants of what was once Google’s attempt to rival Facebook and Twitter, will now be...
