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John Legend Is Your New Google Assistant—Listen for Yourself
If you instruct Google Assistant to “talk like a Legend,” it will speak in a simulacrum of the smooth sound of Grammy-winning crooner John Legend. […]
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When Workers Control the Code
The emergence of worker-owned apps could save the gig economy from itself. […]
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Inside the Weird, and Booming, Industry of Online Influence
Recently, the business of getting paid to promote a company via your social media has spread pandemic-like. […]
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Angry Nerd: Just Get Out of My Space
Need to rent a car for the day? Take mine. But my bed? I'd rather sell a kidney. […]
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How Recommendation Algorithms Run the World
Companies use recommendation engines to tell you what to buy, read, and watch. But those algorithms aren’t your friends. […]
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AI Could Predict Death. But What If the Algorithm Is Biased?
Opinion: Researchers are studying how artificial intelligence could predict risks of premature death. But the health care industry needs to consider another risk: unconscious bias in AI. […]
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Platforms Want Centralized Censorship. That Should Scare You
Opinion: Controlling the spread of insidious content online is extremely difficult—but combining efforts across platforms raises serious threats to free expression. […]
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Want a Tech Job? Silicon Valley Is Still Your Best Bet
A study finds that tech job listings are growing faster in established hubs, like Silicon Valley, San Francisco, and Austin, than elsewhere, even as competition increases. […]
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This Startup Could Sell You Crypto Tokens—With SEC Backing
Blockstack is proposing an unprecedented initial coin offering under an SEC rule that would allow it to sell shares to small investors. […]
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In the 2020 Race, What Is the Value of Social Media Stardom?
Candidates like Pete Buttigieg and Andrew Yang are big on Twitter, but they still trail other Democrats when it comes to cash. […]
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Apple and Qualcomm End Their Legal Beef and Drop Lawsuits
The two industry giants had just begun a trial in a convoluted dispute related to the way Qualcomm charges others to use its technology. […]
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TED 2019: Jack Dorsey Is Captain of the Twittanic
Twitter’s CEO continues his mea culpa tour as the company announces it has finally started blocking abuse with AI. […]
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Google’s AI Experts Try to Automate Themselves
Google's AutoML software uses machine learning to generate better machine learning. It competed last week against high-powered data scientists. […]
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15 Months of Fresh Hell Inside Facebook
Scandals. Backstabbing. Resignations. Record profits. Time Bombs. In early 2018, Mark Zuckerberg set out to fix Facebook. Here's how that turned out. […]
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TED 2019: I Promise Not to Roll My Eyes at Your TED Talk
When cynicism and ironic detachment are the dominant modes of social discourse, it can feel frankly transgressive to earnestly celebrate passionate people who are trying to change the world. […]