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7 Scenarios For How the Mueller Probe Might End
www.wired.com Feb 21, 2019
But what would “Mueller wrapping up” actually mean? And does the rapid movement soon after Barr was installed at the Justice Department indicate that he shut down the Mueller probe prematurely? A recent New York Times article documenting Trump’s...
What It Really Takes to Do Well and Do Good at the Same Time
hbr.org Feb 20, 2019
Corporations are being pushed to change—to dial down their single-minded pursuit of financial gain and pay closer attention to their impact on employees, customers, communities, and the environment. Corporate social responsibility from the...
Once hailed as unhackable, blockchains are now getting hacked
www.technologyreview.com Feb 19, 2019
Early last month, the security team at Coinbase noticed something strange going on in Ethereum Classic, one of the cryptocurrencies people can buy and sell using Coinbase’s popular exchange platform. Its blockchain, the history of all its...
This is why AI has yet to reshape most businesses
www.technologyreview.com Feb 13, 2019
The art of making perfumes and colognes hasn’t changed much since the 1880s, when synthetic ingredients began to be used. Expert fragrance creators tinker with combinations of chemicals in hopes of producing compelling new scents. So Achim Daub, an...
The Push to Legalize Magic Mushrooms for Depression and PTSD
www.wired.com Feb 7, 2019
When Todd’s psychiatrist suggested he start taking psychedelics, he figured it was a joke. It wasn’t. The former corporate executive from Colorado retired in 2006 after an MRI revealed his spine was riddled with a dozen tumors called hemangiomas,...
What Robert Mueller Knows—and Isn't Telling Us
www.wired.com Feb 6, 2019
It’s only Wednesday, but the increasingly sprawling investigations surrounding President Donald Trump this week have already sprawled even further. News came Monday that federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York served a wide-ranging...
There's No Good Reason to Trust Blockchain Technology
www.wired.com Feb 6, 2019
In his 2008 white paper that first proposed bitcoin, the anonymous Satoshi Nakamoto concluded with: “We have proposed a system for electronic transactions without relying on trust.” He was referring to blockchain, the system behind bitcoin...
The World Might Actually Run Out of People
www.wired.com Feb 4, 2019
You know the story. Despite technologies, regulations, and policies to make humanity less of a strain on the earth, people just won’t stop reproducing. By 2050 there will be 9 billion carbon-burning, plastic-polluting, calorie-consuming people on...
This is how AI bias really happens—and why it’s so hard to fix
www.technologyreview.com Feb 4, 2019
Over the past few months, we’ve documented how the vast majority of AI’s applications today are based on the category of algorithms known as deep learning, and how deep-learning algorithms find patterns in data. We’ve also covered how these...
Theresa May, Woodrow Wilson, and the Perils of Negotiating Abroad Without Support at Home
hbr.org Feb 1, 2019
On December 13, 2018, UK Prime Minister Theresa May met with her European counterparts in an attempt to renegotiate the “Brexit deal” she had reached with them only weeks earlier; the deal was facing harsh criticism and almost certain rejection at...
The World’s Fastest Supercomputer Breaks an AI Record
www.wired.com Jan 31, 2019
Along America’s west coast, the world’s most valuable companies are racing to make artificial intelligence smarter. Google and Facebook have boasted of experiments using billions of photos and thousands of high-powered processors. Late last year, a...
Foundations Built for a General Theory of Neural Networks | Quanta Magazine
www.quantamagazine.org Jan 31, 2019
When we design a skyscraper we expect it will perform to specification: that the tower will support so much weight and be able to withstand an earthquake of a certain strength. But with one of the most important technologies of the modern world,...
By Defying Apple’s Rules, Facebook Shows It Never Learns
www.wired.com Jan 30, 2019
If an app on Facebook behaved the way Facebook has been behaving, Facebook would probably have shut it down by now. Tuesday’s scathing TechCrunch investigation all but guarantees it. The report found that Facebook has been paying people as young as...
Accounting for Time
hbr.org Jan 30, 2019
The research is unambiguous: People who value time more than money are happier and more productive. But actually shifting to a time-first mindset is really hard. Partly, it’s because of how our brains are wired. Partly, it’s because we don’t know...
The Folly of Free Trade
hbr.org Jan 30, 2019
Any manager who tries to create a strategy out of worn-out clichés and unexamined nostrums is dismissed. Yet in the United States and other Western countries we have grown comfortable with the government following outworn nostrums about free trade....
Google Takes Its First Steps Toward Killing the URL
www.wired.com Jan 29, 2019
In September, members of Google's Chrome security team put forth a radical proposal: Kill off URLs as we know them. The researchers aren't actually advocating a change to the web's underlying infrastructure. They do, though, want to rework how...
And Now, the Weather: Mars-like, With a Chance of Apocalypse
www.wired.com Jan 29, 2019
Depending on who you are and what you’re into, Earth isn’t particularly habitable. OK, sure, if you’re some kind of polyextremophile microorganism, the world is your oyster. Even oysters are your oyster. You can manage temperatures down to -10...
It’s Time to Rethink Who’s Best Suited for Space Travel
wired.com Jan 27, 2019
In 1961, a college student named David Myers traveled from Washington, DC, to the US Naval School of Aviation Medicine in Florida to take part in a new experiment. “I had a very limited understanding of what I was getting myself into,” Myers told...
One Man’s Obsessive Fight to Reclaim His Cambridge Analytica Data
www.wired.com Jan 25, 2019
It’s 8 on a Wednesday morning in January, and David Carroll’s Brooklyn apartment, a sunny, wood-beamed beauty converted from an old sandpaper factory, is buzzing. His 10-year-old daughter, dressed in polka-dot pants, dips out the front door and off...
We analyzed 16,625 papers to figure out where AI is headed next
www.technologyreview.com Jan 25, 2019
Almost everything you hear about artificial intelligence today is thanks to deep learning. This category of algorithms works by using statistics to find patterns in data, and it has proved immensely powerful in mimicking human skills such as our...
Pesticides Are Harming Bees in Literally Every Possible Way
www.wired.com Jan 24, 2019
While soybean farmers watched the drift-prone weed killer dicamba ravage millions of acres of crops over the last two years, Arkansas beekeeper Richard Coy noticed a parallel disaster unfolding among the weeds near those fields. When Coy spotted...
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